Easy Chunky Blue Cheese Dip Recipe with Tarragon: Perfect For Chicken Wings
This Blue Cheese Dip Recipe is for blue cheese lovers. Enjoy this homemade chunky blue cheese dip with some appetizers on game day!
This recipe has simple ingredients and my homemade version is healthier and tastier than store-bought options.
I often serve this creamy blue cheese dip with some air fryer spicy buffalo wings, celery, and carrot sticks. Additionally, I make extra dressing for sandwiches, salads, and grain bowl lunches later in the week.
Ingredients in this Blue Cheese Dip with Tarragon
This creamy dip makes a delicious salad dressing for a wedge salad or dip. It pairs well with hot wings, fresh veggies such as celery sticks, and bell pepper, and even a topper for burgers!
Blue Cheese: Blue Cheese is a great source of protein and calcium. Have you ever heard of Roquefort cheese? Roquefort is a very strong, bold, and tangy blue cheese that might not appeal to everybody but I love it.
Tarragon: For a more tarragon taste throughout, increase from 1 tbsp to 2 tbsp. Make sure the Tarragon is smashed into a paste or you will have chunks of the herb and it might provide an unpleasant mouth feel against the creamy cheese and dressing.
Mayo: I recommend using your favorite mayo as the base of this dressing.
Greek Yogurt: In this recipe, you can use sour cream or whole milk Greek yogurt. For a lighter version, use 2% Greek yogurt.
Fresh Lemon Juice: The lemon acts as the acid, the bite, and the tang in this dressing. Don’t have lemon, bottled lemon juice is okay too, or even white vinegar.
Fresh Garlic: Garlic is an ingredient that can be adjusted in the recipe. Like extra garlic? Go for it! Add a little more to bump up the garlic in this dip.
Optional: Hot Sauce: For a Hot Blue Cheese dip
Optional garnishes: Green onion, fresh parsley, or other herbs.
How To Make This Recipe
Step 1: Prepare the Garlic, Salt, and Tarragon
- Mortar and Pestle Method: If you have a mortar and pestle, add the minced garlic, a pinch of salt, and chopped tarragon to it. Then, grind them together until they form a paste.
- Easier Option: If you don’t have a mortar and pestle, finely mince the garlic and tarragon together on a cutting board. Sprinkle a pinch of salt over the mixture and use the side of your knife to mash them slightly, creating a paste-like consistency.
Step 2: Combine the Ingredients In a medium bowl, add the crumbled blue cheese, mayonnaise, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, and the garlic-tarragon paste from Step 1.
Step 3: Mix Until Smooth Use a fork or a rubber spatula to blend the ingredients until smooth and creamy. You can leave some chunks of blue cheese if you prefer a chunkier texture.
Step 4: Season Taste the dip and add additional salt and pepper if needed. Adjust to your preference.
Step 5: Chill and Serve For the best flavor, cover the dip and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes to allow the flavors to meld together.
Serve the dip with your favorite vegetables, crackers, or wings. It also works well as a spread for sandwiches or burgers.
How To Use This Recipe
This homemade blue cheese dip is not just the perfect dip for football games. It is excellent as an easy blue cheese dip recipe for:
- Veggies and dip
- Burger toppings
- Sandwich spread
- Wing dip
- Potato chip, crackers, or tortilla chip dip
- Salad and grain bowl dressing
How To Store This Recipe
This recipe stores well in a mason jar or other airtight container in the refrigerator for about a week.
More On Tarragon
There are multiple types of Tarragon. The two types I am most familiar with are Russian Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculoides) and French Tarragon (artemisia dracunculus var saliva). Did you know, that both of these herbs are in the daisy family?
How to Use Tarragon in Cooking
Tarragon goes especially well with poultry. French Tarragon is the more flavorful herb often used in cooking. It has a pungent flavor similar to anise and fennel. It’s essentially similar to licorice.
Many associate the taste of tarragon with the taste of aroma and use it to make wonderful tarragon vinegar.
I enjoy using Tarragon in dishes like
- Egg dishes, especially buttery scrambled eggs
- With Roasted chicken, pork, or fish
- In an Herb Pesto
- Mixed in with olive oil
For more about Tarragon check out Food52 and Almanac’s website.
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Easy Chunky Blue Cheese Dip Recipe with Tarragon
Equipment
- 1 Morter and Pestle optional
- 1 Medium Mixing Bowl
- 1 rubber spatula
Ingredients
- 4 oz blue cheese, chunked or crumbled
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 2 tbsp Greek yogurt
- 1.5 tbsp fresh squeezed lemon juice
- 1 tbsp French tarragon or 1/2 tsp dried
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp Kosher salt
- 1/8 tsp black pepper
Instructions
Step 1: Prepare the Garlic, Salt, and Tarragon
- Mortar and Pestle Method: If you have a mortar and pestle, add the minced garlic, a pinch of salt, and chopped tarragon to it. Then, grind them together until they form a paste.Easier Option: If you don't have a mortar and pestle, finely mince the garlic and tarragon together on a cutting board. Sprinkle a pinch of salt over the mixture and use the side of your knife to mash them slightly, creating a paste-like consistency.
Step 2: Combine the Ingredients
- In a medium bowl, add the crumbled blue cheese, mayonnaise, Greek yogurt, lemon juice, and the garlic-tarragon paste from Step 1.
Step 3: Mix Until Smooth
- Use a fork or a rubber spatula to blend the ingredients until smooth and creamy. You can leave some chunks of blue cheese if you prefer a chunkier texture.
Step 4: Season
- Taste the dip and add additional salt and pepper if needed. Adjust to your preference.
Step 5: Chill and Serve
- For the best flavor, cover the dip and refrigerate it for at least 30 minutes to allow the flavors to meld together.
- Serve the dip with your favorite vegetables, crackers, or wings. It also works well as a spread for sandwiches or burgers.
Nutrition
Hi, I'm Sarah Harper. I am a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist who loves to cook, eat, and talk about food! Here at The Addy Bean, you'll discover an array of flexitarian recipes. My mission is to inspire and encourage others to eat and explore the world of plant-based foods!
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