Recipe- Mouthwatering Hot Mushroom And Pepperoni Pizza Dip

This Pizza Dip is a total spin out. It looks like pizza, tastes like pizza – but it’s a DIP. You will blow your entire calorie budget for a whole week with this. Ask my sister. She came round for a taste test, inhaled about 1/3 of the entire dip before she finally collapsed on the sofa, unable to move for hours. True story. Classiness runs in the family.

Ingredients

Base

8 oz / 250g cream cheese , at room temperature
1/3 cup grated parmesan cheese
1/2 cup sour cream (light or full fat)

Pizza Topping

1 cup pizza sauce (see notes for fast homemade pizza sauce recipe)
1/2 cup pepperoni , roughly diced
1/3 cup onion , diced (brown, white, yellow or red)
1/2 cup mushrooms , roughly diced

Cheese Topping

1 cup mozzarella cheese , grated
1/2 cup tasty cheese , grated (or any other melting cheese with flavour)
12 slices pepperoni

Garlic Toast

2 french sticks , cut into slices
2 cloves garlic , halved (skin on)

Method

- Preheat oven to 180C/350F.

- Heat a non stick fry pan over high heat.

- Add the diced pepperoni and fry for 1 minute until it starts to brown.

- Then add the onions and sauté for 1 minute. Then add the mushrooms and cook for 30 seconds.

- Remove onion mixture from the fry pan and place onto a plate with a paper towel (to drain the excess fat).

- Combine the Base ingredients in a bowl and mix until smooth and combined.

- Spread the Base in a 20 cm / 8 inch base with a 24 cm / 9 inch rim pie dish.

- Spread the pizza sauce over the Base, then sprinkle with the onion mixture.

- Sprinkle over the tasty cheese, then the mozzarella cheese.

- Place sliced pepperoni over the cheese.

- Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes, until golden brown and bubbling. Check it at 15 minutes.

- Serve immediately with Garlic Toast.

Garlic Toast

- Spread french stick slices on 2 baking trays (or one very large one).

- Bake for 5 to 8 minutes until crispy and lightly browned.

- Remove from oven and rub each piece lightly with the cut side of the garlic.