Author Notes
A sour cream dip all the same, but Korean-inflected and with nuance. Instead of Lipton onion soup mix, that deliciously desiccated "maraca-shake of onions rattling in a paper packet," as Amy Thielen once called it, mine calls for a couple packets of those roasted seaweed snacks that I grew up eating, and that have been in vogue among the Trader Joe's generation as of late. It's the secret ingredient in much of my cooking, gives everything a savory note that hits all the pleasure centers of the brain. This dip is salty, creamy, and umami-rich, makes you want to eat vegetables (which I don't do very often). —Eric Kim
Test Kitchen Notes
Featured in: The One Ingredient That Changed My Sour Cream Dip Game Forever. —The Editors
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Prep time
5 minutes
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Serves
a crowd
Ingredients
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1 cup
sour cream (one of those 8-ounce containers is fine)
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2 packets
roasted seaweed snack (about 10 grams total)
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1
clove garlic, grated
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1 teaspoon
rice vinegar
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1 teaspoon
sesame oil
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1/2 teaspoon
salt, plus more to taste
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1/2 teaspoon
freshly cracked black pepper
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1/4 teaspoon
sugar
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Assorted raw vegetables, especially crunchy, bitter ones like radishes, radicchio, and endive, cleaned and trimmed
Directions
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In a food processor, blitz the sour cream, roasted seaweed snack, garlic, vinegar, sesame oil, salt, pepper, and sugar until smooth. Taste and adjust for extra seasoning as needed.
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Serve the dip in a bowl on a platter bedecked with the raw vegetables, which you should lightly salt (really makes a difference).
Eric Kim is a Senior Editor at Food52, where his solo dining column,
Table for One, runs Friday mornings. Formerly the Digital Manager at Food Network, he writes about food, travel, and culture and lives in a tiny shoebox in Manhattan with his dog, Quentin "Q" Compson. His favorite writers are William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Ernest Hemingway, but his hero is Nigella Lawson. You can follow him on Twitter
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