Creamy Spinach Dip

Everyone was so very excited and interested in this dip, that I thought I would share it with all of you!  Read all the way to the bottom to learn tips and tricks to make it the best dip ever!

Creamy Spinach Dip
Appliances: Blender
Prep Time:  5 minutes
 
Ingredients

• 1 cup Spinach
• ½ Red Onion
• 2 cups raw Cashews
• 1 ½ cups water
• ½ Lemon, juiced
• 2 Garlic cloves 

Chop spinach and red onion until fine and place in mixing bowl. Blend remaining ingredients until smooth, adding the water slowly until a nice thick dip has been achieved. Pour dip into bowl and stir in the spinach and red onion. This will last a week if refrigerated and two months if frozen. 

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TIPS AND TRICKS

1.  Use a Vitamix to get the smoothest texture possible. Don't have a Vitamix?  Soak your cashews for 4-6 hours (or overnight) before using them in this recipe. That will help your blender with consistency. 
2.  Make sure those are RAW cashews - roasted cashews will change the consistency and the flavor, and not for the better.
3.  Aren't in love with onion?  Try a yellow or white onion instead of a red onion.  Can't cut it without crying?  Find a good slapchop.  It's great for small quantities and it keeps me from crying!
​4.  Do you know that garlic is a little cold pill?  This bad boy is anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, and anti-viral?  It kills and promotes immunity for all sorts of colds/flus/infections.  The more raw garlic you have in your diet, the less likely to catch the next thing going around.  So this dip - I should have called it the Cold Buster. Wait, that's just how I make it - with 1-2 more cloves. ;)