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Dip, Sauce, and Salsa Recipes

Get saucy with dips, sauces, and salsa recipes that offer a playful and delicious way to enhance your meals, featuring a wide range of textures, flavors, and heat levels that add excitement and variety to your culinary repertoire.

From Buffalo Chicken Dip to Homemade Ranch Dressing, these recipes will surely please the pickiest of eaters.

Other reader favorites include Hot Crab Artichoke Dip, Homemade Applesauce, and one of my favorites Crab Rangoon.

Reader favorite salsas include Mango Salsa, a classic Pico De Gallo, or my Pinterest favorite Homemade Salsa.

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Glass salsa bowl filled with homemade salsa verde

Salsa Verde

Overhead image of a large white bowl filled with fresh pineapple salsa made with diced red onion, red bell pepper, green bell pepper, and pineapple and mixed with fresh lime juice, pineapple juice, and minced cilantro.

Pineapple Salsa

Spoon dipped in a small white ramekin filled with gyoza sauce.

Gyoza Dipping Sauce

Small white bowl filled with thickened teriyaki sauce and sprinkled with white sesame seeds.

Teriyaki Sauce Recipe

Stacked white bowls filled with orange chicken pieces garnished with sliced green onions.

Orange Chicken Recipe

Overhead image of a large white bowl filled with mango salsa made with mango, red onion, cilantro, and lime juice.

Mango Salsa

Homemade salsa in a small white bowl served with tortilla chips.

Salsa Recipe

Overhead image of guacamole in a white serving bowl garnished with chopped white onion and tomato.

Guacamole Recipe

Teriyaki Chicken Bowl

Bowl filled with cooked beef birria garnished with white onion, cilantro, and lime wedges.

Birria Recipe (How to Make Birria)

Bowl of olive tapenade

Olive Tapenade Recipe

Freekeh Salad with Roasted Red Pepper, Walnut + Tahini Sauce

Freekeh Salad

White serving platter covered with french fries, cheese curds, and smothered in homemade beef gravy.

Poutine Recipe

Large stainless steel skillet filled with cooked fettuccine noodles tossed in alfredo sauce.

Best Alfredo Sauce Recipe

Large round white bowl filled with homemade French onion dip topped with golden caramelized onions and chopped chives.

French Onion Dip

Golden bubbly and cheesy crab rangoon dip in a round white baking dish and garnished with green onions.

Crab Rangoon Dip

Wooden spoon filled with rotel dip resting on top of a white bowl filled with cheesy rotel dip.

Rotel Dip

Easy Chicken Gyros

20-Minute Chicken Gyros

Overhead image of a large white pot filled with homemade spaghetti sauce made with onions, ground beef, garlic, and tomatoes.

Spaghetti Sauce Recipe

White bowl filled with creamy classic hummus.

Hummus Recipe

A dish is filled with macadamia coconut crusted chicken tenders

Macadamia Nut Chicken

Overhead image of grilled jerk chicken on a white plate with Jamaican rice and peas.

Jerk Chicken

a bowl of miso dressing

Japanese Ginger Salad Dressing

Grilled Salmon Burgers with Garlic Lemon Aioli

Salmon Sliders with Garlic Lemon Aioli

A mason jar of homemade marinara sauce

Marinara Sauce

Ingredients for Buffalo Chicken dip being put into the slow cooker, with the hot sauce being poured

Crock Pot Buffalo Chicken Dip

A bowl of salad on a plate with ranch

Homemade Ranch Dressing Recipe

Large rimmed baking sheet with six cooked bone-in skin-on chicken thighs with honey soy marinade.

Honey Soy Chicken Thighs

Two honey mustard chicken thighs cooked in the Instant Pot set on a bed of white rice and garnished with chopped parsley.

Honey Mustard Chicken Thighs (Instant Pot)

Jar of creamy homemade honey mustard sauce.

Honey Mustard Recipe

Tartar sauce in a small white serving dish on an aluminum pan.

Tartar Sauce Recipe

A close up of an avocado toast with beet hummus sitting on top of a table

Beet Hummus Avocado Toast

Seasoning for Tacos in a jar

The Best Taco Seasoning Recipe

Blended red enchilada sauce.

Homemade Enchilada Sauce

A jar on a table, with Rhubarb chia Jam

Rhubarb Chia Jam

Chicken and Cabbage Salad with Light Sesame Vinaigrette

Chicken Cabbage Salad

Velveeta cheese dip dripping off a wooden spoon.

Velveeta Cheese Dip with Sausage

A dish of shrimp enchiladas on a plate

Shrimp Enchiladas

Over head image of a small round shallow bowl filled with creamy garlic aioli garnished with fresh parsley.

Garlic Aioli

A pile of roasted carrots

Roasted Carrots with Tahini Sauce

Glass mason jar on top of a wood cutting board filled with homemade buffalo wing sauce

Buffalo Sauce Recipe – How to Make Buffalo Sauce

Corn tortillas topped with black beans, sauteed spinach, roasted butternut squash, and drizzled with chipotle lime cream all on a large baking sheet.

Butternut Squash Tacos

Small white plates filled with individual servings of oven-roasted Brussels sprouts and sweet potato cubes drizzled with tahini and chopped parsley.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Sweet Potatoes

A plate of shrimp salad on a table

Grilled Shrimp Salad

Muhammara dip in a large shallow bowl garnished with pomegranate molasses, chopped walnuts, and fresh mint.

Muhammara Recipe (Red Pepper and Walnut Dip)

Glass jar filled with syrupy pomegranate molasses.l

How to Make Pomegranate Molasses

A bowl of food on a plate, with Tzatziki

Tzatziki Sauce Recipe (How to Make Tzatziki)

A close up of a bowl Chimichurri

Chimichurri Recipe (How to Make Chimichurri Sauce)

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