Retro Recipe Redo #23 Three Italian Inspired Dips, Italian Queso, Italian Sausage Sandwich Dip & Italian Hummus With 3 Kinds Of Chips To Dip Into Them...Pasta Chips, Artichoke Chips And Garlic Butter Parmesan Polenta Chips

 Pasta Chips on left, Polenta Chips on right, Low Carb Artichoke Bottom Chips top. 

Italian Hummus Left, Italian Queso Right, Italian Sandwich dip, bottom 

Retro Recipe Redo #23 

Three Italian Inspired Dips, Italian Queso, Italian Sausage Sandwich Dip & Italian Hummus 

With 3 Kinds Of Chips To Dip Into Them...

Pasta Chips, Artichoke Chips And Garlic Butter Parmesan Polenta Chips 

 Lets Make It!

Make the chips first

 Pasta Chips

Fresh Lasagna Pasta Sheets (such as Contadina), cut into long strips And Fried

Artichoke Bottom Chips 

Buy Them Here

 Polenta Chips

2-1/2 cups yellow Masa 

1/3 cup Polenta

1/3 cup powdered Fritos 

 

Put these in a Vitamix and process until very fine and completely mixed

 

 Add 

1 t salt
1/3 cup butter, melted

2 T Olive Oil

2 t (or more) Garlic Powder

1 cup grated Parmesan

 

Combine all of these first.

 

 Then Lastly add,
2 cups very hot water 

 

Make a dough and then tortillas

(Roll or Press)

then pan roast them then cut into triangles

and fry till crisp 

This will make at least 2 giant bowls of Buttery, Garlicky, Polenta Tortilla Chips 

 Lets Make The Dips!

Italian Queso 

 

1 pound White Velveeta

1/4 cup Sun Dried Tomatoes, chopped

5-6 chopped Pepperoncini

1 T Fresh Oregano

1 sliced small Onion and 3 chopped Garlic cloves, sauteed

2 T chopped Fresh Basil 

 

Melt the Velveeta, and add the rest. 

 Italian Hummus

1 can White Cannelini Beans, drained

1/4 cup Olive Oil 

2 cloves chopped Garlic 

1/3 cup Cashews 

1/4 cup Pasta Sauce

2-3 T Pepperoncini Brine 

Salt & Pepper 

 

Parm to top 

 

Buzz it all in a food processor 

Italian Sausage Sandwich Dip

 

2 small or 1 large links Sweet Italian Sausage, taken out of the casings and fried and chopped into taco meat texture

1/2 red pepper, sliced

1/2 yellow pepper , sliced

1/2 green pepper, sliced

1/2 orange pepper, sliced

1 small onion, sliced

1 t oregano

1 t Fennel seed 

Salt and Pepper 

2 T olive oil

2 T butter

Franks Hot Sauce

Mozz 

 

Fry the veggies in the oil and butter, Fennel Seed, salt and pepper, till soft and translucent. Add the Oregano and hot sauce, and fry a bit more,

Buzz, still hot with the Mozz in a food processor  

Put it in a bowl and mix in the sausage,

Serve Hot 

 

 

To Serve

 

Heat up the Queso and Sausage Dips and put them in heated serving bowls

Put the Hummus in a bowl and sprinkle with Parm 

Serve with the chips 

and

Red Pepper Flakes in a shaker and various olives, marinated Lupini beans and pickled peppers 

and a glass of wine