Hot Pizza Dip

This gooey, cheesy, hot pizza dip goes out to all the pizza lovers out there!  You can make it like we do in any cast iron pan, or a shallow baking dish works great too. Imagine your favorite pizza and the ingredients you use, and that pretty much becomes your recipe. In this case we chose a sausage flavor, but you are free to add nay options that you prefer.

Ingredients

• I lb. cooked Italian sausage

• 1 bell pepper (diced)

• 1/2 small onion (diced)

• 2.25 oz. can of olives

• 14oz. bottle of pizza sauce (we used about 1/2 the bottle)

• 5oz. container of shredded parmesan cheese.

• 1 8 oz. block cream cheese

• 1/2 cup ricotta cheese

• 5.3 oz. container of plain Greek yogurt

Hot Pizza Dip

This is one of the best ways to enjoy your favorite pizza as an appetizer. And you can have chips with it too! 😀

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Prep Time 15 minutes mins

Cook Time 30 minutes mins

Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients

  

• 1 lb. Cooked Italian Sausage
• 1 Bell Peper diced
• 1 Small yellow onion diced
• 2.25 oz. Diced Olives
• 7 oz. Pizza Sauce We used about half of a 14oz. bottle but use what you like.
• 1-2 Cups Shredded Cheese

The Base

• 5 oz. Parmesan Cheese
• 8 oz. Cream Cheese softened
• ½ Cup Ricotta Cheese
• 5.3 oz. Plain Greek Yoghurt

Equipment

• 1 Cast Iron Skillet apx. 6.5 inches
• 1 Shallow Baking Dish Optional

Method

 

1. In a medium bowl mix together the cream cheese, ricotta cheese, Greek yogurt, and parmesan cheese.
2. Then add your pizza sauce on top of the cheese mixture.
3. Next add the rest of your veggies and/or meat.
4.  Top with additional shredded cheese.
5. Bake in a 400 °F oven until nice and bubbly. About 20minutes. It you want you can pull it out add more cheese and broil it several more minutes.

Notes

You can build this however you choose.  Just start with the base in the bottom and then add all of the ingredients that you want.   You can use more of less cheese, and you really add any other ingredients that you want. 

Instructions

• In a medium bowl mix together the cream cheese, ricotta cheese, Greek yogurt, and parmesan cheese.

• Then add your pizza sauce on top of the cheese mixture.

• Next add the rest of your veggies and/or meat.

• Top with additional shredded cheese.

• Bake in a 400 °F oven until nice and bubbly. About 20minutes. It you want you can pull it out add more cheese and broil it several more minutes.

Some other Options are: More Cheese, Cheeseburger, Canadian Bacon, Pineapple, Supreme, pepperoni, BBQ chicken, red onion, jalapenos, and the list is pretty much endless. The best was to make this is in a smaller 6in. or so cast-iron skillet. It’s best served with a thick sturdy chip like corn chips, bagel chips, or Crostini Bread for Dipping. You can also try simple dip recipes – Creamy Beef Dip, Spinach Queso, Nolan’s Bean Dip, or Spicy Spinach Bacon Dip.