Easy cheesy Mexican dip is a fantastic appetizer or game day snack! Rip open that bag of tortilla chips and get ready to scoop up ooey gooey layers of cheese and salsa and more cheese and more salsa. It doesn’t get any simpler or more craveable than that. It’s even the perfect, easy gluten-free Cinco de Mayo food!
This dip. I mean, really, it has pretty much no redeeming qualities. It’s basically layer upon layer of goopy stuff from jars and bags and packages. It’s ugly, all yellow and white and blah.
Except for the cheese. Oh, the cheese. THE CHEESE! Last week I shared my most requested recipe. Well this Mexican Dip is my mom’s most requested recipe. And it isn’t even always requested. It’s just so easy and amazing that she just offers to bring it because she knows it will get devoured. She or I have whipped this up countless times over the years.
Part of the reason that it looks so ugly? Well, we were having it with our Slow Cooker Salsa Chicken & Black Bean Tacos, and we had planned to have dinner at around 5:30 – pretty dark this time of year. And I knew I couldn’t bake it up early because I knew I would be fending off family members wielding tortilla chips, ready to dig in. And not only was my lighting awful, but I had to work quick. The Cheese-Loving Bug was chomping at the bit.
Easy cheesy Mexican dip is basically a simplified version of a Seven Layer Dip, but with the four best layers.
Sure, you could add beans or lettuce or sour cream or whatever. Go for it. I’ll just stick with the cheese and cheese and cheese and salsa. Who needs chips? Just hand me a spoon.
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Easy Cheesy Mexican Dip
Get your tortilla chips ready to scoop up ooey gooey layers of salsa and cheese in this Easy Cheesy Mexican Dip - a perfect game day appetizer.
Ingredients
- One 8 oz. package cream cheese (light or regular)
- One 15-16 oz. jar of salsa con queso
- One 15-16 oz. jar of salsa
- About 1 1/2 cups shredded cheddar and/or monterey jack cheese
- Tortilla chips
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spread cream cheese in an even layer in the bottom of a square or small rectangular (about 11 x 7 inches) baking dish.
- Pour the salsa con queso over the cream cheese layer and spread evenly.
- Spoon the salsa gently over the queso layer to cover completely.
- Sprinkle the cheese over the top of the salsa.
- Bake for about 20-25 minutes, or until heated through and cheese is melted and lightly browned.
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Nachos!!!
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~favorite appetizer would be anything with gooey cheese like the one you just posted…or Swedish meatballs
My favorite appetizer for game day is buffalo chicken dip!
guacamole
Nachos, definitely!
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Favorite appetizer is a toss-up between queso and my cheeseball! YUM!
The taco dip that I make with chili, cream cheese, salsa and cheese.
Queso dip of course!
Spicy rotel dip!
That dip looks awesome!!
Thanks!
My favorite is assorted raw vegetables and a low fat dip.
Cheese dip is a standard at our house but I also make a bacon cheddar dip in a bread bowl that is awesome!
Some Chili’S like salsa and chips.
chips and dip mmmm
We love the salsa my husband makes. Whenever family gets together they ask him to make a batch.
I love homemade pretzels.
It has to be one version or another of queso dip!
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Skinny mozzarella sticks!
Chili con queso!
Any cheese dip and pizza bites!
My favorite game day appetizer are wings…not to spicy but with a kick.
My favorite is a cheesy dip with some corn chips!
Spinach Artichoke Dip is one of my faves!
Queso and chips….yum
homemade salsa
Definitely Buffalo chicken wings with celery & carrots sticks and blue cheese dressing!
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I love to fix crescent pizza rolls and homemade pizza sauce. SO yummy!
Anything with cheese is my fav!!
My absolute fav is buffal chicken dip!
My favorite recipe for game day is cheesy spinach and artichoke dip with chips. delicious!
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/spinach-and-artichoke-dip-10000000230886/
That’s easy; CHICKEN WINGS!
I love spinach dip
I love making little chili cups topped with sour cream, guacamole, cheese and chives. I also love making wings with a creamy buffalo dip, served with cheese fries.
Rotel cheese dip but I may have to try this one!!
We love chips and dips. Also some baked Brie cheese.
we love all kinds of nachos. thanks,what a great giveaway
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I like salsa and chips.
My favorite game day appetizer is Homemade Queso! This recipe looks delicious, will have to add it to the menu.
We love chips and cheesy dip!
My grandmother’s Chili Con Queso, made from scratch….no Velveeta in sight.
cookies 🙂
I love chili on game day and finger foods like dips and chips.
I love Artichoke and Spinach dip on Gameday.
I like a Mexican Dip or even Chili.
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I love taco dip made with cream cheese, refried beans, salsa and cheese.
Pizza!
That dip looks delicious!
My favorite game day appetizer is nachos!
I am ALL ABOUT ANYTHING with CHEESE!!!!! This is a great idea for my little Superbowl gathering I will be having. My plan was the spinach/artichoke dip, but this is it!!! Thank you. #Cheesenista
this is perfect for cheese-lovers like us!
Spinach artichoke dip
Looks yummy. I might have to make this for the super bowl.
Nachos all the way! =D
My favorite game day appetizer would have to be Jalapeno Poppers and Jalapeno Popper Dip! The best and you can’t go wrong with them!!!
Guacamole
Spinach dip – can’t stop eating it!
I like to make Tabasco wings
I just usually cut up Velveeta cheese in a bowl, add a can of Rotel tomatoes and microwave. Quick, warm and yummy!
I love nachos for game day!
Spinach Dip
Spinach and artichoke dip
Definitely hot wings and hot chips.
Buffalo Chicken Dip!
We love wings and almost any kind of dips!
I adore guacamole! Still feel a tad bit healthy when I eat a lil too much! Its all healthy fat right?
My favorite appetizer is wings! Or my father-in-law’s dip. I have no idea what he does but it’s delicious.
I love creamy spinach and vegetable dip!! Yummmm!
Probably cheese dip or guacamole and chips. 🙂
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Since I was born and raised near Buffalo NY how could it be anything but Buffalo Wings!
We love Swiss Cheese Bread Dip!
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Onion dip with sliced cucumbers
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Nachos for sure!!!!
I love vegetarian nachos.
I will be grilling avocados and stuffing the pit with salsa and cheese.
buffalo cauliflower bites
Queso and chips. But I am always looking for something new.
We love guacamole!
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Chips and any kind of dip
My favorite appetizer for game day is the min hot dogs in a sweet and spicy sauce that I cook in a crock-pot! Yum!
Wings!
yummie
This is such an amazing giveaway! I go for the classic chips and salsa/guacamole appetizer, but I like to make at least the guacamole from scratch.
nachos!
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Anything Buffalo Chicken 🙂
You put buffalo dip near me, and I am in heaven! By far, it’s my favorite game day (or any day) appetizer.
Our favorite app is simply potato chips with onion dip made from Lipton Onion Soup Mix and sour cream. Family fav that goes way back!
I’m very boring. Chips and Salsa.
My family loves the cocktail smokies wrapped in bacon then covered in brown sugar and baked for about 45 min. Doesn’t matter where I take them, they disappear very quickly!
Chili cheese dip and fritos 🙂
My favorite appetizer for game day is guacamole! Have to have buffalo wings too.
My favorite appetizer for game would have to be buffalo wings.
I love 7 layer mexican dip.
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Buffalo Chicken Dip for the win!!!!
nachos
I love any kind of dip, especially if cheese is involved.
My fav is anything spicy. Jalapeño popper dip, jalapeño relish dip, spicy wings.
Queso! Pretty much any kind.
We have a family recipe called “Seafood Pizza” that is actually a dip! The base is cream cheese and other seasonings spread on a plate, topped with a layer of cocktail sauce to look like tomato sauce and baby shrimp and crab meat for “cheese.”
Velveta cheese dip and Chex mix.
I love cream cheese with jalapeno jelly and some crackers!
Baked potato Skins loaded
I love to make Buffalo Chicken Dip and eat with tortilla chips or Fritos.
Cheesy nachos w/ guacamole and salsa.
Nothing beats nachos!
kielbasa cooked in bbq sauce and grape jelly
I like spinach dip.
I love cheese balls.
I love bbq meatballs in the crockpot… or the mexican dip that is just layered cream cheese, canned chili and shredded cheese. Yum Yum.
I pinned this make it later, my husband and I love anything with cheese! In fact, if I had cream cheese at home right now I’d scrap tonight’s dinner plan and make this!
My two favorite appetizers are buffalo chicken dip and jelly meatballs. The meatballs are my super easy requested recipe.
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Get some cream cheese the next time you are at the store!! 🙂
I love spinach & artichoke cheese dip!
I don’t think I ever met an appetizer that I didn’t like. But my favorite would have to be hot crab dip
Thank you now I know what to make on a lazy night for supper!!!!
Yes this would make a quick and easy supper!
We like a cheese dip that has ground beef in it. So we kind of use that for our supper.
my favorite game day appetizers are lots of different dips and sausage balls
My favorite? has to be Spinach Balls with honey mustard dipping sauce!!!
Nachos!
Chips and dip!
Chicken wing dip
Pulled pork and beans, hubby makes a killer dish in the crockpot & I DEVOUR IT! Any time of year lol
Definitely spicy buffalo wings and beer batter onion rings.
My favorite is stuffed jalapeno
7 layer dip and brown sugar lil smokies
Chips and dip!
Creamy cheesy spinach dip
I like pigs in a blanket.
My favorite would be a tie between Drunk Moose Meatballs, Chicken Wings or Artichoke Spinach Dip 🙂
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Buffalo chicken dip
My favorite appetizer has to be Kebabs! I also always serve some kind of dip with chips and yours look like the next one to try 🙂 Delicious!
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Bean and cheese with tortilla chips
Yummy cheese dip and chips!
Southwestern egg rolls and Buffalo chicken wings are my favorites!
This looks delicious, I can’t wait to try the recipe. Queso dip is always a super bowl favorite!!!
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7 layer dip. Yummm.
Spinach Dip