7-Layer Dip is a classic dish layered with all your favorite taco ingredients (let’s say, 7-ISH), ready to be scooped up with your favorite chips. My personal favorite is Frito scoops, but any tortilla chips are great! This recipe is very flexible and can be made in any size dish because you can easily adjust the quantity of ingredients to fit. Just remember to not make any single layer too thick because all those layers really add up and I think the best 7-layer dips have a very thin layer of each so you can easily get a little bit of everything on each bite!
Ingredients Needed (Yep, more than 7!)
- Canned refried beans
- Guacamole
- Sour Cream
- Pico de Gallo
- Shredded Cheese
- Taco Seasoning
- Green Onions
- Chopped Cilantro
- Lime
- Queso fresco or cotija
- Olives, optional
How to Make 7 Layer Dip
- Spread refried beans on the bottom of your dish
- Top with a layer of guacamole.
- Combine sour cream with taco seasoning and spread on top of guacamole, making sure to cover all of the guacamole to prevent browning.
- Layer on Pico de gallo and squeeze lime juice over it evenly. |
- Lastly, sprinkle on shredded cheese, green onions, olives (if using), and chopped cilantro.
Serving Tip:
Another fun way to serve this dip is in individual cups. Depending on the type of gathering, you might find this easier and cleaner! Layer ingredients into clear plastic cups and top with a few tortilla chips. I’ve done this for baby showers, parties, etc.
Layered Taco Dip (7-ish Layer Dip)
Ingredients
- 14 oz can refried beans any flavor
- 1 cup prepared guacamole
- 1 cup sour cream
- 1 packet taco seasoning
- 1 cup prepared pico de gallo
- ½ – 1 cup grated cheddar cheese jack or pepper jack are also great
- ½ cup sliced green onions
- ¼ cup chopped cilantro
- ¼ cup crumbled cotija cheese or queso fresco
- 8 oz can sliced olives (optional) drained and chopped
Instructions
- Note: Ingredients are approximate, feel free to eyeball as your heart desires! Spread refried beans in an even layer in the bottom of a 9×13-ish dish. (You can vary the size of your dish as you please!). Spread guacamole evenly over beans.
- In a separate dish, mix sour cream with 1/2 the packet of taco seasoning (you can do this to taste) and then spread mixture over guacamole layer making sure to cover it completely to avoid browning.
- Sprinkle pico de gallo over the sour cream layer and then top with cheese, onions, cilantro and cotija. Also olives if you are using.
- Serve with tortilla chips.
Questions & Reviews
Your calendar looks great!
and the recipe looks awesome! Im going to have to try it soon!
Kate-part of what makes this blog fantastic is your hilarity! How do you keep this all up with such a huge home project? You rock girl!
Ha, Mary, you are very sweet! Let’s just say I’ve decided I am a glutton for punishment and a magnet for chaos (largely of my own doing. Kitchen remodel? Puppy? Sure!)
So is there anything I can use in place of the olives? I love the dip but the hubby and I aren’t big olive fans. Thoughts?
Oh, and when I click on the link to Amazon for the calendar, I get the page to your book and it says “out of print – limited availability”. Say it isn’t so?!!?!
Katie, yeah, we have no idea what’s going on with Amazon! So weird. Try this link: http://deseretbook.com/Our-Best-Bites-2012-Calendar-Sara-Wells/i/5061385. As far as the olives go, I say just leave ’em off. You could also replace them with something Mexican-y that you do like (jarred jalaenos? Green chilis? Coca Cola made with real sugar?)
Love the calendar and recipe. I willl make it for tomorrow’s football game. However, I MUST HAVE THE NAME OF PAINT COLOR! It looks soooooo creamy just like butter.
Sonya, you have no idea how I’ve agonized over this color! Like I said, it was a dark, dark red before and it made the room feel all dark and cave-y and I knew I wanted something lighter, I just didn’t know what kind of light it should be. Anyway, I finally settled on yellow and then proceeded to get, like, 20 different yellow paint chips (I truly make my husband crazy when it comes to paint), taped them up on the wall, and every single person in my family picked this one (which is what I was silently rooting for). Once we got the paint, EVERYONE doubted me and now everyone (the contractor, the painter, the electrician, the electrician’s wife) wants to use it! So…to make a VERY long story short, we used Valspar Homestead Resort Tea Room Yellow here with Valspar Bright White on the trim and the wainscoting that nearly ruined my marriage (not really) and Valspar Betsy’s Linen on the ceiling, which I have decided is the loveliest white of all the whites in the paint department… 🙂
My Mom’s recipe is nearly identical, with one exception – she adds crumbled bacon. I know OBB LOVES bacon, so I thought I would let everyone know that it is definitely a ‘secret ingredient’ in this type of layer dip. Even though bacon doesn’t usually scream, ‘Mexican,’ it is delicious!
The calendar looks great! I already have your cookbook on my wishlist for Christmas, guess I’ll just have to add the calendar, too! I want the calendar just for the recipe of that cake! Peppermint, chocolate just in time for the holidays!
Congrats on the calendar! I can’t wait to pick one up. I have the perfect spot in my kitchen that I hang a wall calendar every year and of course a recipe calendar (filled with Our Best Bites recipes) should have the honor to fill the space!
I’m SO excited about getting your calendar! My husband and I have basically become OBB fanatics since coming across your blog 5 months ago or so. We make your recipes almost every night a week…I just can’t get away from them 🙂 Thanks for so many amazing recipes (complete with pictures- I love knowing what everything is supposed to look like…makes it so much easier)! 🙂
This is one of those slap my forehead and say why didn’t I think of that kind of recipes. The pico, cilantro and lime are such an obviously good choice. The rest is exactly how I do it already. Thanks for sharing.
Love this! Layered dips are my fav 🙂