Healthy Spinach Artichoke Dip

This spinach artichoke dip recipes reminds me of my old days (and ways).  We’d go out on a Friday night,  have a beer or two, and some deliciously unhealthy appetizers.   When I first started this diet I felt very sorry for myself and mourned (a lot) over the food I was giving up.  And that food was a long list!  Wheat, corn, peanuts, anything with yeast and most sugars.  But the more I started to experiment with food (and replacements for junk food) the more I became amazed at the large variety of food choices.  This is one recipe we have been making on football Sunday’s lately.

I wish I could take total credit for this delicious recipe but I found it in the book “Cooking your way to good health” by Doug Kaufmann.  I did however put my own spin on it and added real garlic.  Garlic is a proven antibacterial, antiviral, and anti-fungal not to mention there is almost no better flavor in the world.  I also used less cream cheese and more yogurt.  If you are following the Doug Kaufmann diet, this would be considered Kaufmann 1.

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Try this healthy spinach artichoke dip recipe that is also Kaufmann Diet friendly.

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Ingredients

  

• 6.5 oz Artichoke hearts (drain and slightly chop them)
• 2 cups Spinach (fresh and chopped) not frozen
• 3 cloves Garlic
• 1 tbsp Olive oil
• 4 oz Cream cheese
• 1 cup Greek yogurt (plain, no sugar added- I use Stonyfield organic greek yogurt)
• 1/2 tsp Crushed red pepper flakes
• 1/4 tsp Salt
• pinch Garlic powder
• pinch Black pepper

Instructions

 

• Chop garlic.
• Add olive oil in skillet over medium heat.
• Once skillet is hot, sauté garlic until slightly golden brown.
• Add chopped spinach and artichoke until spinach is wilted.
• Add in cream cheese and all other ingredients EXCEPT for yogurt.
• Once mixture is warm, take off stove and put in bowl. Then add the yogurt. I like to add the yogurt once the mixture cools a little bit since yogurt may loose it's probiotics when heated. Enjoy!

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