Spinach and Artichoke Dip with Goat Cheese

A cast iron skillet showing a dip with spinach , artichoke and goat cheese and a slice of toasted baguette dipped in it.

This spinach and artichoke dip with goat cooked in the cast iron skillet is a fantastic dip to serve before dinner. It's a healthier version with some Mediterranean twist to the classic dip.

Course Appetizer

Cuisine Mediterranean

Keyword spinach and artichokes dip, spinach and artichokes dip with goat cheese

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 20

Total Time 25

Servings servings

Calories 246kcal

Author Sonila

Equipment

1 Cast Iron Skillet

Ingredients

6 garlic cloves or 1 elephant garlic clove like in my picture
16 ozs artichokes I use artichokes in oil
10.5 ozs goat cheese
4 cups baby spinach already pre-washed
⅔ cup mozzarella shredded
½ cup parmesan shredded or grated
0.5 tsp sea salt
0.25 tsp black pepper I prefer using freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Remove artichokes from oil, drain a little and chop them in bite size pieces. Mince or finely slice garlic.
Place cast iron skillet in medium heat. Wait few minutes then add the chopped artichokes and garlic. Saute slowly for few minutes while you stir with a wooden spoon occasionally. Please note that if your artichokes were not soaked in oil, then you do need to add some olive oil or butter according to your taste to the skillet. The artichokes I used were preserved in oil, so there's no need to add extra oil.
Once artichokes have softened from sauteing, add goat cheese in the middle of the skillet and add the spinach slowly around the cheese. As goat cheese softened and spinach wilts start mixing the ingredients together.
Add mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese, mix and then add salt and pepper. Lower heat to simmer and let the ingredients mix and the dip become gooey.
Serve with toasted baguette slices, crostini, pita bread, chips etc! Dig in and Enjoy:))

Notes

Serving size is a bit subjective. If you are serving this dip before dinner, then you can have anywhere from 4-6 full servings. But sometimes my husband and I can have the whole thing in between ourselves and not have dinner afterwards.
This dip allows you to be flexible, you can add more spinach and more shredded cheese than recipe quantities state.
Taste for salt before adding more, all 3 cheeses used have some salt already so go slow with salt.

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