Tangy, dilly vegan sour cream dip is quick and easy to make. It comes together in minutes, even if you choose to make the sour cream from scratch!
Vegan Sour Cream Dip with Homemade or Store-Bought Sour Cream
You can make your vegan sour cream dip with store-bought vegan sour cream or homemade. I’ve done it both ways, and it works great!
If you want to make your sour cream from scratch, I recommend Gluten Free Pantry’s Best Damn Vegan Sour Cream. I have to say: it’s aptly named!
You can use her recipe, your favorite homemade sour cream recipe, or packaged vegan sour cream. You do you!
More party food recipes: Spinach Artichoke Dip with Cashew Cream, Easy Vegan Cheese Ball
If you’re making from-scratch sour cream, you can add the spices in this recipe to the blender when you’re making the sour cream itself. It can all come together at once.
For store-bought, just mix the sour cream in your serving bowl with the spices, and you’re good to go.
Either way, this simple dip takes about 10 minutes of active time to make. You can serve it right away, but I definitely recommend chilling it.
The chilling time gives the flavors a chance to meld, and you’ll have a much more flavorful result if you wait. It also allows the sour cream to thicken up more for the most decadent dipping experience.
How to Store and Use It
You can make this recipe a day or two before your party. It keeps for up to a week in the fridge. If you are making this ahead or if you have leftovers (you won’t!), just store in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
This sour cream dip also works in other applications besides as a dip. It’s great dolloped onto baked potatoes or a bowl of soup. I sometimes like to add a spoonful of this dip to a bowl of Vegan Chicken Stew to give it a creamy edge.
Vegan Sour Cream Dip
Ingredients
- 2 cups (16 ounces) vegan sour cream – store-bought or homemade is fin
- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1 1/2 teaspoons onion powder
- 1 tablespoon dried dill
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt and white pepper – to taste
- veggies – for dipping
Instructions
- For store-bought sour cream: Combine all of the ingredients except for the veggies right in your serving bowl, and chill the dip for 15-20 minutes before serving.
- For homemade sour cream: If you’re making the sour cream from scratch, you can do it at the same time as you make the dip. Just add the garlic, onion, dill, vinegar, salt, and pepper to the blender along with the sour cream ingredients. Chill for 15-20 minutes before serving.
Notes
- Different sour creams may have different levels of sourness. Adjust the lemon juice, as needed, to suit your tastes.
- The sour cream recipe I used yielded closer to 1 1/2 cups of sour cream, so I doubled it and saved the extra for baked potatoes.
- Dip will keep for 1 week in the fridge.
jjj
can the dried dill be replacef with something else
Becky Striepe
Dill is pretty critical to giving it that ranch flavor, so I would not substitute it.
Jenny
This is amazing! Thank you for the recipe!
Becky Striepe
Hooray! So glad you’re enjoying it!
Brandie
I’m going to try this recipe. Nice and easy and could easily pair up great with a pizza crust that needs dipping (I love pizza and dips more than I do veggie and dip). Thanks for sharing 🙂
Becky Striepe
Ooh yes! Ranch and pizza crust are always a good combo!
swathiiyer
Looks delicious, thanks for sharing with Hearth and soul blog hop, pinning
Sophia | Veggies Don't Bite
Nothing better than sitting down with a bowl of dip, fresh veggies and a few chips. YUM!
Jenn
Perfect party dip! We always had ranch dip growing up…of course it was the store bought, dairy filled kind. This sounds sooo much better! Love it!
Linda @ Veganosity
This looks and sounds so good, Becky. I’d love to dip a few potato chips into that bowl-haha!
JL Fields
I think I’m going to make this with the soy yogurt recipe you shared recently!
Becky Striepe
You are a genius!!
Alisa @ Go Dairy Free
I was just having a conversation about a friend who’s hosting a graduation party for her son this weekend and making a sour cream dip – she uses dairy-free sour cream even though her son is no longer allergic as when she tried to use dairy sour cream, her whole family said the dip tasted funny! This reminded me of that 🙂 Now I can’t wait to try it!
Becky Striepe
Too funny! I think it’s so interesting how your tastebuds change as you change how you eat.
Amy Katz from Veggies Save The Day
Looks delicious!
Becky Striepe
Thank you, Amy!
Ricki
PERFECT for summer parties!! And so delish. On the “must try” list!
Becky Striepe
Thank you, Ricki!
Aimee / Wallflower Kitchen
This is my kind of summer snack!
Becky Striepe
Thank you! Mine, tooooo!