Warm Turnip Green Dip is a creamy and delicious way to enjoy your southern greens. It's so cheesy with crumbled bacon sprinkled on top. Serve with pita chips, tortilla chips, toasted baguette, or pork rinds for a scrumptious southern appetizer.
Course Appetizer
Cuisine Southern
Keyword bacon, cheesy dip, turnip greens
Prep Time 15 minutesminutes
Cook Time 25 minutesminutes
Total Time 40 minutesminutes
Servings 10
Ingredients
4slicesbaconchopped
1/2cupchopped sweet or yellow onion
2garlic clovesminced
1(16-ounce) bagfrozen chopped turnip greens
1(8-ounce) packagecream cheese,softened and cut into cubes
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease a 9-inch baking dish.
Cook bacon in a nonstick skillet until crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
Pour off all but 1 tablespoon of bacon grease. Add onion to the bacon grease and cook over medium heat until soft.
Add garlic and cook 1 more minute.
Add turnip greens and cook and stir for a few minutes.
Add cream cheese and stir until melted.
Add mayonnaise, sour cream, red pepper flakes, salt, and Parmesan cheese.
Transfer mixture to prepared baking dish. Bake 20 minutes. Sprinkle bacon and cheddar cheese on top and bake 5 more minutes.
Notes
It helps if the turnip greens are partially defrosted when you add them to the pan. If still all the way frozen, just heat them longer in the pan before adding the remaining ingredients.Nutritional info is provided as an estimate only and can vary based on brands of products used.