Rotel Dip with Real Cheese

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Make Rotel dip with real cheese for your next party. This real cheese party food is made with cheddar, Monterrey jack, cream cheese, and spicy, healthy homemade Rotel.  It’s our favorite queso dip and it’s made with real food so you don’t have to worry about the junky ingredients in processed cheese food! It’s a great Rotel recipe you’re going to want to keep!

Velveeta, while creamy and tasty, is full of all kinds of ingredients that are really bad for your health. It’s not food. It’s just chemicals and whey, not really cheese at all. And your family is worth more than that. When it’s time to throw a Super Bowl party or other gathering, it’s hard to stay away from those chemicals, but you are worth it.

Every commercial on tv shows us ways to make convenience foods like frozen breakfast, and microwave snacks, but we need to whip up some healthier snacks for our next celebration.

This cheesy dip is full of nutrients, it doesn’t take long to make, and it will still make fun memories of your gathering. Plus, it’s delicious! This Rotel queso dip uses real cheese and quality ingredients and it will make your taste buds sing!

For all the best homemade dressing, dip, and sauce recipes check this out.

Rotel Tomatoes

You can use a can of Rotel, no problem. It has minimal ingredients and brings the flavor, but you can also make homemade Rotel if you have a bunch of extra tomatoes and peppers. Ours is linked in the intro in the highlighted link for Rotel tomatoes. You’re gonna love it!

Ingredients for Rotel Dip

The creaminess of our Rotel dip comes from shredded cheddar, Monterrey jack, and cream cheese. (Can You Freeze Cream Cheese?) This paired with a roux made of butter, flour, and whole milk makes the sauce have body and creaminess. One tip is to make sure you don’t use pre-shredded cheese because it won’t melt like freshly shredded.

Pre shredded cheese is dusted with cellulose (or sawdust) to keep it from sticking together. (Let’s all serve our families a spoon full of wood for dinner, no thanks)

Another tip is to make sure you use a really tasty sausage. This blue and gold sausage is second to none. You don’t want to skip the flavor, so make sure you get blue and gold if you can. If not, Jimmy Dean sausage makes a pretty good second choice.

Adding the cup of cut-up spinach is an extra nutrient booster but I promise it doesn’t change the flavor at all. I would venture to say no one might even notice it in there. I love adding spinach to as much as I can because it’s great and adding nutrition without being noticed. Just don’t add too much and it probably won’t be detected.

This dip is gluten-free and low carb on its own. You can dip grain-free items in it if you want or use tortilla chips if that’s your bag. Either way, it’s WONDERFUL!

Rotel Dip

Rotel Recipes

For more yummy recipes with spicy homemade Rotel, check these out:

• Rotel Slow Cooker Pork Chops
• Spicy Creamy Tuna Mac and Cheese
• Easy Inexpensive Taco Soup
• 4 Ingredient Rotel Chili
• Black Bean Quesadilla Recipe
• Smokey Pork Soup with Leftover Pulled Pork
• Chicken rotel spaghetti without Velveeta

For more recipes with blue and gold sausage, check these out:

• Sausage balls without Bisquick
• Old Fashioned Sausage Gravy
• Sausage Spinach Tortellini Soup
• Sausage Stuffed Cabbage Rolls
• Sausage and Potato Empanadas

For more party food ideas:

• 20 Top Healthy Meatball Recipes
• Cheddar Cheese Ball with Garlic Bread Seasoning
• Easy Sausage Ball Recipe (with real food)
• Frozen Meatball Recipe for Bulk Cooking
• Air Fryer Chicken Taquitos
• Pepperoni Pull Apart Bread
• Football Party Food Ideas