Vegetable Dip Recipes

These vegetable dip recipes are super easy to make. In fact, I’m sure that you have all of the ingredients in your fridge right now. This is a great way to encourage your kids (and yourself) to snack on raw veggies. I like to pre chop a platter of assorted vegetables like sweet potatoes, carrots, celery, broccoli and more. These two vegetable dip recipes will win over the kids or kids at heart in your house any day. It’s the way I’ve gotten the family to eat more veggies easily!

Curry Vegetable Dip Recipe

This vegetable dip is a favorite with the kids. It keeps well in the fridge for about a week in a well sealed container. 

• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp onion powder
• 1tsp curry powder

Mix all ingredients together and chill, pull out and serve with a vegetable tray. (This dip is especially tasty with raw sweet potatoes!)

Ranch Vegetable Dip Recipe

This vegetable dip recipe is my personal favorite. It’s a tried and true recipe that is low on the dairy and full on the fat. Make sure that you use a high quality mayonnaise, or better yet make it yourself. 

• 1 cup mayonnaise
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp Thyme
• 1 tsp Oregano

Mix all ingredients together and chill, pull out and serve with a vegetable tray.

Carrot Ginger Soup

The carrot ginger soup is one of my favorite afternoon snacks on a cold day. On the farm we usually end up with 400 pounds of second carrots that we eat. This is my favorite way to process them, make them into soup and then freeze it for the winter. 

• 2 tbs oil
• 1 small onion diced
• 1 minced clove garlic
• 5 large carrots,  chopped
• 2 apples chopped
• 1 orange
• ½ tsp powdered ginger
• 1 tsp sea salt
• 2 cups of chicken stock or water
• 13.5 oz. coconut milk

Zest and juice orange, put in a bowl and set aside.

Chop apples and carrots and put aside.

Put oil in a stock pot and saute onions, garlic, carrots and apples until tender. Next add orange juice, orange zest, salt, ginger and stock to stock pot.  Simmer  for 30 minutes. Add coconut milk and stir.  Remove from heat and puree. Serve hot or let cool and freeze in individual serving size containers. 

THis is a great afternoon snack.  THis soup freezes well and it is a great place to use up carrot seconds.

Dessert Carrot Casserole Recipe

Oh my, carrot casserole, this is like a dish from heaven. This recipe is just the thing in the spring. On the farm we have a huge excess of eggs and leftover carrots from the previous year. If you are like me you will make it over and over again!

preheat oven to 325 deg. F

• 3 cups of sliced carrots
• 1 Tbs coconut oil
• 3 eggs
• ½ cup honey
• ⅓ cup coconut or almond milk
• ½ tsp sea salt
• 1 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp nutmeg
• 1 tsp vanilla extract

Cook carrots on the stove until tender.  Puree carrots in a food processor or blender. In a mixing bowl put in carrot puree, coconut oil and eggs,  beat until smooth.  Next add salt, cinnamon, nutmeg and vanilla and blend.  Put mixture into a 1 qt. baking dish and bake for 30 minutes or until you can insert a knife and it comes out clean.  Serve warm or cold.

Winter Squash Coconut Curry Soup

This soup can very easily be a side dish, or with a few simple additions become an entire meal in one pot. One of my favorite breakfast foods in the colder months is a good hot soup. This winter squash coconut curry always hits the spot on those cold mornings. It is also a great way to use up that large winter squash harvest from your garden! 

• 1 small onion diced
• 1 clove garlic minced
• 3 tbs olive oil
• 1.5 cups water or chicken broth
• 2 cups cooked and mashed winter squash ( butternut, Red Kuri, Hubbard, Kabocha)
• 1 tsp curry powder
• ½ tsp ginger powder
• ½ tsp cinnamon
• ½ tsp sea salt
• ½ cup coconut milk

In a sauce pan put in olive oil, diced onion and minced garlic and cook until tender and translucent.  Pour in water or broth and bring to a boil.  Next add squash, salt and spices then mix well. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add coconut milk and puree until smooth.  At this stage if you are not eating immediately, store in fridge.  

To make this into a one person meal you will saute ¼ cup of diced  cooked chicken or turkey until warm then I add ½ cup of chopped greens (spinach, kale, bok choy or romaine lettuce) until wilted.  Then I put a cup of soup into the skillet and heat it up.  This is a great way to start the day!

Awesome Healthy Apple Dip Recipe

This healthy apple dip is quite the crowd pleaser. It’s an alternative to that caramel dip for apples and full of great nutrition. For the recipe you will need a food processor and it will need to be cooked for a period of time. Bring this to a party and watch it disappear! 

• 8 medjool dates
• ½ cup honey
• 1 13.5 oz. coconut milk
• 4 eggs
• 1 ⅓ cup flaked coconut
• 1 cup of chopped nuts ( pecans, walnuts or cashews)
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• ½ t sea salt

Put nuts in a food processor and chop, then set them aside. Next, put dates in the food processor with honey and blend until the mixture is paste like. Then add eggs and blend again. In a sauce pan add date mix,  coconut milk and cook over medium heat until the mixture starts to bubble, stirring constantly.  Turn off heat and add coconut flakes, chopped nuts, vanilla and salt.  Stir until thoroughly mixed.  Refrigerate and serve cold with thinly sliced apples.

Organic Spice Mix Recipes

A great way to change up your skillets, crock pot dinners or soups is adding in your own spice mix. During the week it is so much easier to add in one of these into my dinner than to measure out small amounts of individual spices. For these recipes to taste the best you will want to use the highest quality organic ingredients. If you aren’t sure about where to buy the highest quality spices that are organic and fresh. You can go to Primal Palate to find amazing spice mixes that are organic, fresh and ready to go.  

You could cook the same meats and vegetables all week in your skillet  and just by changing up the spices you could have a totally different tasting meal each night.  The premixed spices make it easy to just shake some flavor on to the food to make it different.  You could also use the spices to change up your dips, soups and crock pot. I highly recommend that you make or buy some premixed spice mixes to make meal making fast and easy.

Breakfast Sausage Spice Mix Recipe

I love to eat this one on any breakfast skillet. It’s especially yummy with beet greens and ground pork! 

• 4 tsp sea salt
• 3 tsp thyme
• 6 tsp ground sage
• 1 tsp ground pepper

Mix all the spices together and put into a spice jar.  Sprinkle onto any meat or skillet to taste.  If you like it hot add crushed red pepper to the mix, I’m sure that it would taste amazing!

Italian Spice Mix Recipe

• 1tbs sea salt
• 1tsp ground pepper
• 2 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp garlic powder
• 1 tsp fennel powder
• ½ tsp crushed red pepper (if desired)

Mix all the spices together and put into a spice jar.  Sprinkle onto any meat or skillet to taste.