Hello Caramelized Onion Dip! Start with onions, cooked slowly until their natural sweetness bubbles through. Blend said onions into a creamy base seasoned with a splash of balsamic vinegar, a pinch of sugar, and onion powder for depth. Serve with potato chips or crunchy colourful veggies like carrots, cucumber, or celery.
Perfect for a party of diverse eaters, this plant-based dip is made without dairy, tofu, cream cheese, cashews, or mayonnaise. The base is our DIY Mother Mix - a four-ingredient, all natural, dry mix that you can store in your pantry, and use for multiple recipes. (If you don't want to make the mix, you can use the equivalent ingredients instead (see the Recipe Card for details).
Ingredients
About the Mother Mix
The Mother Mix is an all-natural, gluten-free dry mix that you can make in minutes and store in your pantry.
Use it to jumpstart over 16 different creamy and cheesy plant-based recipes - from Spinach Dip to Scalloped Potatoes and Veggie Pot Pie.
You can also use it on its own -- just add water, blend, and heat -- to make a simple vegan cream sauce, delish over roasted veggies!
About the Mother Mix
The Mother Mix is an all-natural, gluten-free dry mix that you can make in minutes and store in your pantry.
Use it to jumpstart over 16 different creamy and cheesy plant-based recipes - from Spinach Dip to Scalloped Potatoes and Veggie Pot Pie.
You can also use it on its own -- just add water, blend, and heat -- to make a simple vegan cream sauce, delish over roasted veggies!
Visual Overview: Making Caramelized Onion Dip
Note: You need a blender for this recipe.
Heat the oil over medium heat.
Making caramelized onions, heating the oil
Add the onions and fry over medium heat for for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
Making caramelized onion dip, cooking the onions
Turn the heat down to low, stir in the sugar and cook for another 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
Making caramelized onions, adding the coconut sugar
Stirring sugar into caramelized onions
Add the balsamic vinegar, onion powder and salt.
Making caramelized onion dip, adding the vinegar onion powder and salt
Remove about half of the onions and add them to a blender with the Mother Mix and water. Blend on high for a minute.
Making caramelized onion dip, the Mother Mix and onions blended
Before adding the sauce back to the frying pan, remove 1-2 tablespoons of the onions for garnishing the dip later.
Add the Mother Mix sauce back to the frying pan. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until the dip is thickened, about 3-4 minutes.
Making caramelized onion dip, adding the Mother Mix sauce to the pan.
Making Caramelized Onion Dip, finished dip in a white cast iron pan
You can serve the dip hot or cold. Accompany with your favourite chips and vegetables such as carrots, celery, or cucumber.
Top-down view of Caramelized Onion Dip with carrots, cucumber and veggie chips
Can I make it ahead of time?
Yes! While it tastes great right out of the pan, the flavours will continue to bloom, so it's an excellent make ahead dip. It will keep in the fridge for 4 or 5 days.
Recipe Card
Caramelized Onion Dip: Dairy-Free
Ingredients
- 3 tablespoons olive oil [Or substitute with another neutral-flavoured cooking oil]
- 2 cups onions, diced
- 2 teaspoons coconut sugar [Or substitute with any granulated sugar]
- 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons onion powder
- 2/3 cup Mother Mix
- 1 cup water
- salt to taste
Optionally, if you do not have the Mother Mix
- 1/2 cup almond flour [also known as ground blanched almonds]
- 2 tablespoons tapioca starch [also known as tapioca flour]
- 1 1/2 tablespoon nutritional yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
Instructions
- Heat the oil in a large frying pan.
- Add the diced onions and fry over medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Turn the heat down to low, stir in the sugar, and cook for another 10-15 minutes or until golden brown.
- Add the balsamic vinegar, onion powder, and salt (to taste).
- Remove half of the onions and add them to a blender with Mother Mix (or equivalent ingredients) and water. Blend on high for 1 minute.
- Before adding the sauce back to the frying pan, remove 1-2 tablespoons of the onions for garnishing the dip later. Add the Mother Mix sauce back to the frying pan. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until the dip is thickened, about 5-8minutes.
Notes
About the Mother Mix
See this post on the Mother Mix, is a DIY pantry staple that you can use for over 15 different comfort food recipes on not not nutritious.Choosing Sugar
You can use any granulated sugar for this recipe. Not all sugar is vegan-friendly, see the Sugar, sugar, honey, honey: A guide to sweeteners for plant-based diets for guidance on sweeteners.Serving
You can serve this dip hot or cold.Make Ahead, Storage and Reheating
You can prepare this ahead of time and store in the fridge. You can serve it cold from the fridge or and then reheat over low to medium heat when you are ready to serve. You mayAbout the Mother Mix
See this post on the Mother Mix, is a DIY pantry staple that you can use for over 15 different comfort food recipes on not not nutritious.About the Nutrition Information
Nutrition information is an estimate only.Nutrition
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