Chili Verde Dip

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 16
• 1 (16 ounce) can refried black beans
• 1 tablespoon taco seasoning or 1 tablespoon mexican seasoning, plus
• 1 teaspoon taco seasoning or 1 teaspoon mexican seasoning, of your choice (i have used 1/2 tbs. chili powder and 1/2 tbs. plus 1 tsp. cumin. which makes it very mild for kids.)
• 1 lime
• 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened
• 1 (4 ounce) can chopped green chili peppers, undrained
• 1 clove garlic, pressed
• 1/2 cup red onion, finely chopped (optional)
• 1 (3 1/4 ounce) can pitted ripe olives, divided
• 5 ounces cheddar cheese, grated (1 1/4 cups)
• 1 tablespoon fresh cilantro, snipped
• corn chips, of your choice
• 8 7-inch flour tortillas, if desired,see below (optional)

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 400*.
• 2 mix refried beans with 1 teaspoons of seasoning.
• 3 spread over bottom of pie plate.
• 4 juice lime to measure 1 tbs.
• 5 mix cream cheese, lime juice, chilis, garlic and the rest of the seasoning until smoothe.
• 6 add chopped onions, half of the black olives, and one cup of the cheese to mixture.
• 7 mix well.
• 8 spoon cheese mixture over bean layer in pie plate.
• 9 sprinkle remaining olives, 1/4 cup cheese and snipped cilantro over top.
• 10 bake 10 minutes.
• 11 if desired, arrange baked tortilla chips around edge of dip.
• 12 to prepare baked tortilla chip:.
• 13 cut 8 (7 inch) flour tortillas in 8 triangles.
• 14 place on baking sheet and bake in 400* oven for 8-10 minutes or until crisp.
• 15 repeat with remaining tortillas.