Crudits With Green Goddess Dip Best Recipes

SUMMER CRUDITES WITH GREEN GODDESS DIP

Ingredients:

• 1 cup sour cream
• 2/3 cup mayonnaise
• 2 anchovy fillets, preferably salt packed, rinsed
• 1 1/2 cups fresh flat-leaf parsley leaves
• 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
• 4 scallions, trimmed and chopped, dark-green tops reserved
• Coarse salt and freshly ground pepper
• 1/4 cup chopped fresh tarragon leaves
• Assorted crudites, such as cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, and blanched snap peas, snow peas, wax beans, and baby squash (see note), for serving

Steps:

• In a food processor, puree sour cream, mayonnaise, anchovies, parsley, basil, and chopped scallions until smooth. Season with salt and pepper. Transfer to a bowl. Refrigerate, covered, up to 1 day.
• Finely chop reserved dark-green scallion tops and stir into dip, along with tarragon. Season with salt and pepper. Serve with crudites.

CRUDITéS WITH GRILLED GREEN GODDESS DIP

Ingredients:

• 2 ripe avocados
• Oil, for coating
• 5 large tomatillos, peeled and rinsed
• 2 jalapeño chiles, stemmed, halved lengthwise, and seeded
• 2 tablespoons roasted garlic (see Note)
• Juice of 2 limes (about 1⁄4 cup)
• 1 cup basil leaves
• 1 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
• An assortment of lightly charred vegetables, such as asparagus, jicama, fennel, snap peas, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, and endive, for serving

Steps:

• Wipe the grill grates with oil to prevent sticking. Build a medium-heat fire. Your medium-heat zone should have embers 3 to 5 inches from the cooking surface.
• To make the dip: Cut the avocados in half and remove the pits. Cut again so the avocados are quartered. Keeping the skin on, coat the flesh sides with oil and grill each flesh side over medium heat for about 60 seconds, or until there are nice grill marks. Set aside.
• Coat the tomatillos and jalapeños with oil and grill over medium heat on all sides until charred but not blackened, about 5 minutes total.
• Remove and discard the skins from the avocados. Add the avocados, tomatillos, jalapeños, garlic, lime juice, basil, and salt to a blender and puree until very smooth. The dip can be made up to 2 days in advance and stored, covered, in the refrigerator.
• Cut the larger vegetables, such as fennel and jicama, into pieces that are slightly larger than bite size and keep the smaller vegetables, such as asparagus, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots, and endive, whole. Arrange the vegetables on a platter and serve with the dip.