This delicious Clam Dip is an easy appetizer made with whipped cream cheese and sour cream balanced off with salty minced clams, and served with potato chips.
Usually people who love Clam Dip have enjoyed it for years as part of their annual holiday appetizers, summer BBQ’s or tailgate parties. Whether you’re already a fan or want to try it for the first time, this recipe is really easy with the simplest ingredients that highlight the flavors of the star ingredient: clams!
Ingredients Needed for Clam Dip:
- Cream Cheese
- Sour Cream: may substitute mayonnaise or plain Greek yogurt.
- Clams: canned minced clams, and reserve the clam juice.
- Garlic: freshly minced.
- Worcestershire sauce.
- Parsley.
- Hot sauce: we prefer Tabasco hot sauce in clam dip, but use your favorite kind!
- Additional Flavor Add-In Ideas: paprika, chives, yellow mustard, lemon juice, green onion.
How to make Clam Dip:
- In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Stir in sour cream, garlic, parsley, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce.
- Stir in drained clams. Add reserved clam juice from the canned clams to thin the dip to desired consistency. Chill for 1-2 hours before serving.
- Serve with potato chips or crackers.
Make Ahead Instructions:
To Make Ahead: Clams Dip will last stored covered in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.
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Recipe
Clam Dip
Ingredients
- 8 oz cream cheese , softened
- 1/4 cup sour cream
- 1 clove garlic , minced
- 1/4 teaspoon dried parsley flakes (or 1 teaspoon fresh chopped parsley)
- 1/2 teaspoon worcestershire sauce
- Dash Tabasco or favorite hot sauce
- 1 6.5 oz can minced clams drained but juice reserved
Instructions
- In a mixing bowl, beat cream cheese until smooth. Stir in sour cream, garlic, parsley, Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce.
- Stir in drained clams. Add reserved clam juice from the canned clams to thin the dip to desired consistency. Chill for 1-2 hours before serving. Taste and adjust seasonings as needed.
- Serve with potato chips or crackers.
- Clams Dip will last stored covered in the refrigerator for 3-5 days.
Notes
Nutrition
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This recipe is so easy and tasty! I served it cold.
This is my go to for chip dip. Everyone loves it. I always add lemon juice. Yum!
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Just reading the recipe I could tell this would be very bland. Adjustments I made, and it was delicious. I have these anchovy tablets, I crushed one half of one and added it alternatively, you could add 1 tsp anchovy paste. I doubled the sour cream, added 1 Tbsp of Lemon Juice, used 2 tsp Worcestershire Sauce, added 1/2 tsp Smoked Paprika, added 1/2 tsp Old Bay Seasoning, and finally doubled the garlic. As to ratings, I don’t understand how a recipe with some many adjustments by so many people can possibly be nearly 5-star???
I followed the recipe but you never said how much reserved clam juice to put in there. That’s something big that shouldn’t have been missed even in your video
I just made it for our super bowl 🏈 party. I think its going to be a big hit. I did add 2 cans of clams along with some clam juice. Very easy to make and very tasty.
Love the recipe. We did with Fritos, not healthy but compliments clam dip.
Easy but very bland. The cream cheese overwhelms everything else. I added another can of clams (no liquid, it was runny enough already), lots more Worcestershire sauce and hot sauce, lemon juice, more sour cream to balance out the cream cheese and took the suggestions here for Old Bay, which really helped. It was salvageable, but not what I needed to be doing on Christmas Eve!
Why would you try a new recipe for the first time on Christmas Eve??? lol
Very easy.
Very bland. Going to add a bunch of seasonings to try and salvage it.
Not good, did exactly as directed and came out flavorless except for the Worcestershire. I’m pretty open minded but this recipe isn’t good.
Hi Bill, I’m so sorry–just wondering how it could have been flavorless? Did you use fresh crab?
A couple of Ideas for you. Cut the garlic clove in half and rub the inside of the empty bowl you are going to make the dip in (old family secret). It makes a profound difference also I like to add a dash of Red Boat fish sauce (for depth of flavor) and some Tobiko (Flying fish roe) for a secret ingredient! Also I’ts your CLAM dip recipe! not crab LOL.
since i am lactose intolerant i can’t eat most if not all dairy products which means that lots of dips and such are not something i can enjoy. however, i have experimented with lactaid 4% small curd cottage cheese put into a food processor and it comes out the consistency of sour cream.
This was a really good basic recipe. I added some lemon juice and smoked paprika and then just a little Old Bay since it needed some salt.
This will definitely become a regular.
Sorry, it’s pretty tasteless.
A 6.5 Oz can of clams (Snow’s) yields a bit over 3 Oz drained… including the can.
A squeeze of lemon a bit of Old Bay seasoning helped.
Made for Super Bowl Sunday with add ins. Perfect chilled well.
Thank you for helping helping us all to be better cooks and to be a little creative.
I grate small amt of onion , squeeze lemon juice, omit the sour cream or mayonnaise , other then that follow the recipe, delicious. I prefer Chopped clams , minced are too fine.
Made it and it turned out AWESOME, I puréed half the clams so it was perfectly blended, the other hand was just minced, SUPER BOWL PERFECT
I added capers and chopped ham. Sautéed clams onion and ham with garlic 1st then added clam juice. Delicious
I made exactly as directed with one exception. I included a half can extra clams. Even with the extra clams, this dip has no clam taste. Just tastes like seasoned cream cheese.
Outstanding as a kid, still outstanding. Couldn’t remember 1 ingredient, being sour cream. Thought maybe mayo…it was good but missing something. This time I will try warmed. Mmmmmmmmm
Simple and brings back a lot of memories when parents made this in the 70s. Will be a regular rotation now!
Thanks
I did not have clams, but instead used cut up cooked shrimp. It was very good. Thankyou for the recipe!
Easy, creamy, and delicious! This was a huge hit at Thanksgiving and has already been requested for Christmas. 🙂