Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip - A Crunchy Cheese Dip
Pineapple Cream Cheese Dip is a crunchy cheese dip filled with pecans, water chestnuts and pineapple, the perfect topping for your favorite crackers.
Servings: 32 servings
Ingredients
- 16 ounces cream cheese, softened
- 8 ounces pineapple tidbits, drained with 1 Tablespoon juice reserved
- 8 ounces water chestnuts, drained and chopped
- 1 cup chopped pecans
- 3 Tablespoons chopped chives
- 1 teaspoon seasoned salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground back pepper
- fresh chopped parsley (optional)
Instructions
- Cream softened cream cheese until smooth.
- Add pineapple, water chestnuts, chives, seasoned salt, pepper and reserved vegetable juice and mix until combined.
- Cover and chill before serving. Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired (optional).
- Serve with crackers or pretzels.
Notes
- Be sure to soften the cream cheese before making this dip. Failing to do this step will result in lumps in your water chestnut dip.
- Keep 1 tablespoon of pineapple juice drained off of the tidbits to add to the cream cheese dip.
- I had a hard time finding an 8 ounce can of pineapple tidbits, so I bought a bigger can and only used as much as I needed. Give it the best guess on how much 8 ounces is, and then eat the rest of it as a snack with cottage cheese.
- Don't throw away the rest of the pineapple juice drained from the tidbits. Instead, make an Amaretto Pina Colada.
- Garnish with fresh parsley, if desired.