Easy Olive Dip Recipe.
Whenever my kids are home from school I brace myself for the onslaught…
“I’m hungry”
“What can I eat?”
“I’m starving!”
They never seem to eat what’s in their lunch box at school but on weekends and school holidays I can never keep the fruit bowl full for more than a day, and I feel like I spend my entire life either at the supermarket or in the kitchen. When they are home they are always hungry and I am always looking for quick and easy options to fill them up.
I used to buy lots of dip. Dip and crackers, dip and veggies, dip and bread – it’s an easy way to full my bottomless pit children. A while ago I happened to have look at the ingredients as I picked up yet another tub of olive dip from the supermarket – olives, mayonnaise and preservatives. That’s it, that’s what I was paying nearly $5 a tub for? Instead I started making own olive dip.
This dip is so easy to make it’s done in a few minutes. You just pop everything in the food processor, whiz it up, and it’s done.
You can also do this by hand if you don’t have a food processor (or you can’t be bothered cleaning it!), just dice the olives up nice and finely.
You can use any kind of olives you like. We use plain old green olives, because that’s what we have.
It doesn’t look the prettiest when you put it in the bowl, but it tastes great, and a sprinkle of chopped herbs on the top will make it look less like vomit!
This easy to make dip is great with veggie sticks or crackers.
Olive Dip
Ingredients
Instructions
Please note: this recipe uses Australian measurements, if you need to convert measurements you can find our printable cooking conversion chart here.
Some veggie sticks, a big bowl of pita chips, and some olive dip fill up my ‘starving’ children, at least for a little while.
You can find our easy recipe for homemade pita chips here.
And if your kids love dips then try this super easy simple yoghurt dip recipe.
What do you feed your hungry hoards for lunch during the holidays?
I did a maccas run for lunch today. I know, I know…
I did it based on the premise that both Lil and I needed to get out of the house, and that she’d fall asleep in the car on the way home. We did, and she did.
At least I didn’t feed any of it to her I spose!
Next time I will make dip. Or buy more ham when I do the groceries.
I like the sounds of this dip. Super easy!
Dips are awesome! Unfortunately one miss in my house has developed a taste for only store bought. GRRR. I shouldn’t complain though…she was the only one who liked the raw vegan choc balls I made yesterday :).
“Sprinkle with herbs so it looks a little less like vomit”
How’s that for appetising? You should be a food writer. ;-) It’s a good thing I REALLY love olives and Mstr7 has just given away his allergy to egg and wants to eat everything in the house.
Thanks for sharing this.
Bring on the dip recipes! My daugter seems to only eat vegetables these days if she can dip them in something.
I’ll definately give the olive dip a go. I love that it only has two ingredients. Thanks :-)
I love love love olive dip. Gosh it is delicious. Thanks so much for the idea of whizzing olives and mayo together – brilliant! We also love dips, roasted capsicum dip is a favourite in our house, we all love it so much. mmmmm…. now I feel like a dip!
Perfect timing for a yummy recipe – I popped a link to it on my post tonight as I didn’t have time to do a recipe of my own (like I usually do on a monday).
But the mooshy bunnies are all finished and ready to go to qld (phew!).
xxxCate
Are the proportions right? You do mean tablespoons for the mayo and yogurt? I tried to make this and it came out as olives with a slight coating. What did I do wrong?
Yep, table spoons… it’s not very ‘creamy’, but feel free to add more yoghurt or mayo if that’s how you like it.