It’s easy to prepare delicious food when you use full fat ingredients. But it’s a challenge to create delicious foods that are reduced in fat. Cream Cheese, Mayonnaise and Sour Cream  are usually the base to most artichoke dips. They all have high fat contents and are high in calories.

3 ounces of mayonnaise is about 142 calories and 29.76g fat

3 ounces of sour cream is about 156 calories and 15.12g fat

3 ounces of cream cheese is about 306 calories and 30.36g fat

while

Silken Tofu is only

3 ounces of silken tofu is 50 calories and 2.5g fat

For my base I used silken Nigari Tofu. It only has 2.5 g Fat per 3 ounces. That is nearly fat free! It’s a health food. It has almost no flavor so it’s a blank canvas that you can do a lot with it.

I infused the artichoke with flavors. (********see yesterday’s post or just type in artichoke in the search for my directions.) The dip is seasoned to perfection. If the directions are followed exactly your dip should come out delicious.

Ingredients for about 10 servings

8 oz artichoke scrapping (what you scrap off from the leaves after cooking)

11.5 (package) Silken Tofu Nigari

1/2 cup (scant)  parmesan – grated

1 small lemon – just the juice

1/4 cup scallions – chopped

1 Tablespoon Dijon

2 teaspoons garlic confit (I do this in batches and it last for weeks. I roast garlic with a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil covered at 350 degrees F for about an hour. The garlic turns sweet and it gets whipped up with a stick blender and is a smooth butter like texture I like to use in cold food)

1/2 teaspoon black pepper

1 teaspoon kosher or sea salt

Directions

Just combine and blend.

Nobody will ever guess the base is healthy tofu. This really came out delicious!