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Creamy, thick homemade Clam Dip is made with tangy cream cheese, a lil’ hot sauce, zesty lemon and lots of clams! This cream cheese clam dip recipe is SO simple & easy to make, great as a dip for chips, pretzels, and more. The best clam dipping sauce recipe!
Why You’ll Be Dipping This Again and Again
- Perfect Party Dip: So yummy to dip with chips, pretzels, and more—a total crowd pleaser, like 7 layer dip and sour cream and onion dip!
- Easy to Make: Simply stir together a few ingredients and adjust hot sauce to taste. That’s it!
- Great for Seafood Lovers: Seafood in dip form, you’ll love the combo of creamy tartness with a dash of spice.
Easy Clam Dip Recipe With Cream Cheese
Why is it that every dip made with cream cheese tastes so freaking good? In the past, y’all have loved my cream cheese-based dips: dill pickle dip, taco dip, pizza dip, cannoli dip… the list tastily goes on. It must be that cream cheese just improves everything!
Today’s insanely easy cream cheese Clam Dip recipe is made by beating cream cheese until smooth, then simply folding in clams, lemon juice, garlic and two sauces until mixed. Thin it out with clam juice as needed and you’re ready to grab the potato chips!
This simple & easy homemade clam dip is a family favorite for Game Day, Game Night (yeah!) and Movie Night. Okay… it’s pretty much awesome for any kind of themed event. 😉
Cream Cheese Clam Dip Recipe Ingredients
- Cream cheese – be sure to use brick-style cream cheese and soften it to room temperature
- Clams – use a convenient 6.5 ounce can of minced clams and save the juice to help thin out the dip as desired
- Lemon – we love using this stainless steel lemon squeezer to juice the fresh, bright juice for a spectacular dip
- Worcestershire sauce – 1 teaspoon adds just enough flavor to cut the creaminess
- Garlic – jarred minced garlic is easier, but freshly minced is more aromatic; use what works for you
- Tabasco – or your favorite hot sauce, like sriracha or Tapatío. Use as much or as little as you’d like
How to Make Clam Dip
I’m going to show you in 4 easy steps the answer to “How do you make clam dip?”
- Using a hand mixer, beat cream cheese in a medium bowl until smooth.
- Fold in clams (reserve clam juice), lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and hot sauce until well mixed.
- Gradually stir in reserved clam juice until desired consistency is reached—more for thinner dip, less for thicker.
- Garnish with chopped onion and serve with potato chips. Enjoy the yummiest clam dipping sauce recipe!
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What to Serve with Clam Dipping Sauce Recipe
Not sure what to serve with homemade clam dip? Try the following:
- Chips: potato chips, pita chips, pretzels
- Veggies: celery sticks, carrot sticks, cucumber sticks—any vegetable that’s dippable and sturdy
- Crackers: Ritz crackers, Wheat Thins, multigrain crackers, wheat crackers
- Bread: I love scooping this homemade clam dip and plopping it right on top of garlic toast or roasted garlic bread
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Easy Homemade Dip Recipes
Cream Cheese Clam Dip Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened to room temperature
- 1 (6.5 ounce) can minced clams, drained with juice reserved
- 1-3 teaspoons fresh lemon juice, optional and depending on taste
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- ¼ to ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste
- ½ teaspoon minced garlic
- Tabasco or desired hot sauce, to taste – I put in 10 dashes
- Green onion and cracked black pepper, for garnish
- Potato chips, for serving
Instructions
- In a medium bowl with a hand mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth.
- Fold in clams, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce, garlic, and hot sauce until well mixed.
- Gradually stir in reserved clam juice, until desired consistency is reached (more for thinner dip, less for thicker). Dip with a potato chip to taste and adjust seasonings as needed.
- Garnish with chopped onions or chives and serve with potato chips. Enjoy!
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Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
