Hot Caprese Dip Recipe

Hot Caprese Dip is an easy to make delicious appetizer with only four necessary ingredients: cheese, tomatoes, basil and cooking spray.

Being a Mom is hard enough, but when you have to cook for a crowd, wrangle a two-nager, AND clean your house in one Saturday, you’re always looking for short cut recipes. Thanks to Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes, I can make one of my favorite appetizers quickly to hold my guests over while the rest of the dinner bakes away. My Hot Caprese Dip is always a hit when friends come to visit.

Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes are the star of my holiday dish. Why waste time you don’t have seeding and dicing a real tomato when you can use 100% diced tomatoes that have real flash steam freshness AND added goodies like sweet onion or roasted garlic?

You can find Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes and other Hunt’s tomato products at Walmart in the Pasta aisle.

To make Hot Caprese Dip, you need the following ingredients:

• 1 can Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes (with onion or garlic)
• 16 oz. mozzarella
• 1 tablespoon basil paste (or 1 tablespoon fresh basil)
• PAM cooking spray

The dish is beyond easy to make if you have the proper supplies too: can opener, stove, strainer, large mixing bowl, and your favorite holiday baking dish. 

How to Make Hot Caprese Dip

1. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Pour the Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes into a strainer. Shake until liquid comes out of the bottom.

1. Cut the mozzarella into 1 inch cubes.
   
2. Put the tomatoes in a large mixing bowl. Add 1 tablespoon basil paste OR 1 tablespoon fresh chopped basil to the tomatoes. 
3. Mix the mozzarella in with the tomatoes and basil. Stir gently with a large spatula until all the ingredients are combined.
4. Pour the tomato mixture into a baking dish that has been sprayed with PAM Cooking Spray.
5. Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Pull the dish out and mix the dip. Bake for 15 minutes.
6. Serve alongside warm bread or your favorite cracker. Enjoy!
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Hot Caprese Dip

Caitlin Houston

Hot Caprese Dip is an easy to make delicious appetizer with only four necessary ingredients: cheese, tomatoes, basil and cooking spray. 

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Course Appetizer

Ingredients

  

• 1 can Hunt's Diced Tomatoes with onion or garlic
• 16 oz Mozzarella
• 1 tbps Basil Paste or fresh basil
• Pam Cooking Spray

Instructions

 

• Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Pour the Hunt’s Diced Tomatoes into a strainer. Shake until liquid comes out of the bottom.
• Cut the mozzarella into 1 inch cubes.
• Put the tomatoes in a large mixing bowl. Add 1 tablespoon basil paste OR 1 tablespoon fresh chopped basil to the tomatoes. 
• Mix the mozzarella in with the tomatoes and basil. Stir gently with a large spatula until all the ingredients are combined.
• Pour the tomato mixture into a baking dish that has been sprayed with PAM Cooking Spray.
• Place in the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Pull the dish out and mix the dip. Bake for 15 minutes.
• Serve alongside warm bread or your favorite cracker. Enjoy!

Keyword caprese, dip