Hot Caramelized Onion Dip with Bacon and Gruyere is the ultimate onion dip! The flavor of the sweet caramelized onions covered in so much rich, creamy, cheesy goodness makes this dip the hit of every party!
Hot Caramelized Onion Dip with Bacon and Gruyere
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Sweet onion, bacon, gooey cheese all mixed in sour cream and mayo. You can’t go wrong with that.
It’s rich, creamy, and flavorful and sure to be a hit at your next party. Cook the dip in a small cast iron skillet to get it extra golden and bubbly.
Serve with baguette, apple slices, or fritos. Try serving leftovers (if there are any!) over a baked potato.
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Hot Caramelized Onion Dip with Bacon and Gruyere
Sweet Onion, bacon, gooey cheese all mixed in with sour cream and mayo. An appetizer doesn't get more delicious than that!
SERVINGS: 6 servings
Ingredients
- 4 bacon strips
- 2 sweet onions halved and thinly sliced
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon sea salt
- 1 tablespoon dry sherry
- 1/4 teaspoon tabasco
- 1/2 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
- 1 cup shredded Gruyere Cheese
- 1/2 cup sour cream
- 1/2 cup mayo
- 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cook bacon in a large nonstick skillet. Remove to a paper towel lined plate to cool. Crumble.
- Add onions, sugar, and salt to bacon fat in the skillet and cook over medium-high heat for about 5 minutes. Reduce heat to medium and cook, stirring often, until onions turn a deep golden brown color. This can take as long as 20 minutes. If onions start to burn, turn heat down to medium-low.
- Add sherry and cook 1 minute. Stir in thyme and tabasco. Remove from heat.
- Mix together sour cream and mayo in a medium bowl. Add crumbled bacon, cheese, onion mixture, and black pepper. Mix together well and transfer to a 2-cup baking dish.
- Bake 20 minutes, or until bubbly and golden brown on top.
Notes
Yield: 2 cups
Nutrition
Calories: 287kcal
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Recipe Source: adapted from Coastal Living
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I just made it as a Super Bowl appetizer and it is delicious!
Made this today, hanging around the house with family…….absolutely amazing!!!! Easy to make and the flavors combined make for a perfect grown up onion dip !!!!
This was so good! Made it yesterday to take to a New Year’s party and it was a hit! Seriously devoured within minutes. I didn’t have bacon so I used pancetta instead and It was delicious. This is definitely a keeper! Thanks for a great app recipe:)
You can but it won’t be nearly as good
Can I use Mozzarella cheese instead of gruyere cheese.
I serve this as an appetizer and it was awesome! I served it in a pumpernickel bread bowl. Everyone loved it and wanted the recipe. I’ll be making it again and have while watching the football game.
Jean from Delaware
Bacon!!!
Tried this saw on Pinterest) and it was amazing!!!
I don’t have fresh thyme. Will dry thyme leaves work? Can I substitute swiss for guyere?
Yes, you can use dried thyme. I think I would only use 1/4 teaspoon. Swiss can be used instead of gruyere.
OMG… My daughter made this dip and it is the bomb!!! We all loved it! I am making it for New Years now. Thank you for sharing 🙂
Hope you have a wonderful New year’s!!
Awesome dip!!!! I made for Thanksgiving and Christmas….A total hit both times.
Just made this to cook later and had already put cheese in. Didn’t see comment to wait. Does this matter?
It should be fine Kay.
I made this for a Christmas party today and it was super delicious! I even sliced up some apples to dip in. Thank you!
This is one of my favorite dips! The flavor is amazing!
Can this be made in a baking dish if you dont have a cast iron?
Yes, any kind of baking dish will do.
Pinning dishes for a Saturday BBQ, your recipes came up 3 out 5! You have a new fan!
Wow! So honored Janet. Hope you had a wonderful Saturday BBQ!
Looks so good! Can’t wait to try it! I loooove caramelized onions!
Such a great recipe! I found this in Coastal Living magazine. So awesome that you added a bit of Tabasco so you could claim the recipe as your own and blog about it!
Such a great comment! I found this needless and passive-aggressive. So awesome that you chose to be a sarcastic jackass so you could claim the moral high ground and bitch about it!
@JoeThePoliceman that is a winning comment ????
Please be nice.
Are you this aggressive with the people you pull over?!?!
Rude and unnecessary… Gotta love passive aggressive disorder
You are rude!
Making this for our Secret Sister reveal party tomorrow night at church! Can’t wait to eat it!!
Can this recipe be made in the crockpot?
You would need to caramelize the onions in a pan but you definitely can do the baking part in a crockpot.
Will this fill a cast iron skillet that is 10″ in diameter? Two cups doesn’t seem like much but the pictures show it it a skillet.
Hi Linda, a 10-inch skillet will be too big. The one pictured is a mini skillet- I think about 6 inches.