Bean Dip #recipe #Halloween by Maya Corrigan

The big day is here! This is the final installment of the Kitchen's 2-week celebration of Halloween recipes. Today I'm sharing an easy recipe for bean dip. This is one of Granddad's favorite recipes in the Five-Ingredient Mystery series. It has only three ingredients, takes minutes to make, and leaves little to be cleaned up. You cook and serve it in the same bowl and you need only one measuring cup because you use the same amount of each ingredient.

The bean dip would make a great snack while you watch the World Series. The only thing that makes it a Halloween recipe are the cute ghost potato chips I happened to find. 

Ingredients

½ cup of packed-down grated cheddar cheese
½ cup of refried beans
½ cup of salsa, spicy or not depending on your tastes

Mix the three ingredients in a microwave safe bowl. 

Microwave on high for one minute and stir the dip. Microwave on high for another thirty seconds and stir again. Repeat, if necessary, until the dip is the consistency you like. I microwaved the mix for a total of three minutes for a warm dip.

Serve the dip with tortilla chips or any other kind of chips.

I was never a fan of bean dip until I tried this one at a friend's house. I immediately asked her for the recipe.

Do you have a favorite dip for chips or vegetables? 

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Maya Corrigan writes the Five-Ingredient Mysteries featuring café manger Val and her live-wire grandfather solving murders in a Chesapeake Bay town. Maya lives in a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Before writing crime fiction, she taught American literature, writing, and detective fiction at Northern Virginia Community College and Georgetown University. When not reading and writing, she enjoys theater, travel, trivia, cooking, and crosswords.

Visit my website for easy recipes, mystery history and trivia, and a free culinary mystery story.

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