Easy Crab Dip Recipe

This Crab Dip is super easy to whip up and only one bowl, plus a baking dish is needed. It is one of my favorite crab dip recipes along with Crab Rangoon Dip.

Incredible Hot Crab Dip made with cream cheese, mayo, crab meat, horseradish, capers, and cheddar cheese.

Ingredients

Mayonnaise and cream cheese form the base. Then horseradish, lemon zest, garlic salt, hot sauce, capers and green onions are added. The salty capers are my favorite part.

Fold in the crab and cheese and you’re ready to bake it until it bubbles.

Bake it either in one medium-sized casserole dish or several ramekins. A Mini Pie Platealso works well. I sometimes like to bake it in ramekins because then you can set one out and keep the others warm in the oven until the first one disappears. Which won’t take long!

Incredible Hot Crab Dip made with crab meat, cream cheese, mayo, horseradish, capers, and cheddar cheese

Type Of Crab To Use

Oh how I love fresh crab. Don’t you? I don’t buy it often because you practically need to take out a second mortgage on your home to buy it. For crab cakes I always use lump crab meat, but for dip, the less expensive backfin crab meat is fine.

You can use canned crab if you don’t have access to good quality fresh crab or you don’t want to shell out the dough for it.

How To Serve

Put this warm, cheesy dip out at you next party or on game day and it will be one of the first things to go! Serve it with crackers, toasted baguette, or pita chips. Can also serve with clery sticks and carrot sticks for a low carb appetizer.

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