Name: Hatch Green Chile Dip
Prep time: 15 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 5 Roasted Hatch Green Chile (some skin, and seeds removed with your hands and chile's chopped); 8 ounces Cream Cheese (room temperature); 1/4 cup Plain Greek Yogurt; 1/4 cup Mayonnaise; 1 clove Garlic (chopped); 1/2 teaspoon Chamayo Chile Powder (or Ancho Chile Powder); 1/2 teaspoon Onion Powder; 1/8 teaspoon salt

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Hatch Green Chile Dip is a creamy dip with Greek yogurt, mayonnaise and cream cheese. Spicy with Chimayo chile powder and Hatch green chili peppers. Grab a blue corn chip and take a dip in this Southwestern appetizer recipe.

Hatch green chile dip appetizer surrounded by blue corn tortilla chips

We’ve finally turned up the heat here in Colorado. Summer is here and we’re having our first 90 degree temps, so how about turning up the heat for a fabulous little appetizer recipe for Hatch Green Chile Dip?

Ingredients in Hatch Green Chile Dip

Luscious and velvety with cream cheese, yogurt and mayo, the dip is spiced up with lots of chopped Hatch Green Chile and Chimayo chile powder.

This creamy dip pairs perfectly with some blue corn tortilla chips.

A note about Chimayo Chile powder. It’s hard to find. It’s a powder produced from chile grown in Chimayo, New Mexico . It is distributed by the Chimayo Chile Project an organization dedicated to preserving the strain of chile and keeping the cultural assets alive in the historic town of Chimayo. A particular strain of chile that may have been brought here by Spaniards in the 1500s, it almost became extinct a few years ago.

There is nothing like this unique product and I’ve even been told that red chile powders can be labeled as Chimayo…even though not authentic. I enjoyed reading this article from Eating Well after I purchased my Chimayo from a Hatch roasting stand last Fall. Authentic? Guess I’ll never know unless I drive to Chimayo and buy it there.

With that said, Ancho chile powder will work for this.

You’ll find the easy dip recipe below, but first let’s drink some wine.

We don’ drink much white wine. That said, we sometimes can’t resist the urge to buy Rieslings. They often languish in our (cellar) closet for years…until Summer hits The Ranch and you’ll find us on the patio sipping a frosty glass of crisp white wine.

For our twentieth anniversary, we treated ourselves to an iconic Sunday Brunch at The Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. A Great Gatsby morning, for sure.

We had this very Riesling to quaff between our several trips to get new plates full of wonderful delicacies. The Dr. Loosen Bros. 2008 Riesling QbA was served in small frosty cold wine glasses. It was memorable for its pale straw coloration and its delicate lime and apricot echoes.

Perhaps the one bottle we have left will be suitable to share at our next anniversary brunch, or dinner. I think it was $12 when we bought several bottles in 2009. It’s one of our favorites, so if you’re looking for a dryer Riesling, give a recent vintage a try.

It might be just the perfect glass to sip on the deck with the Hatch green chile dip.

Are you green chile crazed? Take a look at the most popular and most classic chile recipe on my site, How to Make Hatch Green Chili, Colorado Style.

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