Dirty Martini Dip Recipe

Whether or not you like to sip on a dirty martini cocktail, this martini-inspired dip is sure to please your palate if you enjoy creamy dip recipes and the taste of olives.

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Why You’ll Love It

Full of flavor: This easy martini dip certainly isn’t lacking flavor. It pairs the creamy tasty of cream cheese, sour cream, blue cheese, and mayonnaise with olives, garlic with a bold salty taste.
Simple to prepare: If you can mix ingredients together, you can whip up this easy dirty martini dip with vodka easily, freeing up your time to make other party appetizers.
An unusual dip: Some of the most popular dips you find at events and get-togethers are guacamole, salsa, cheese dip, artichoke dip, and so on. But this one is rather more unusual, and a great choice if you’re in the mood for something different.

Dirty Martini Dip Ingredients

A complete list of ingredients and amounts can be found in the recipe card below.

Cream cheese: For thickness and a tasty tang.
Sour cream: Also has a delicious tang.
Olives: For a briny saltiness. Also save some olive juice.
Mayonnaise: A typical ingredient in creamy dip recipes. Full-fat is best.
Blue cheese: For that blue cheese-stuffed olives flavor that’s so good in martini cocktails!
Chives: For a garnish.
Seasonings: Garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and black pepper add flavor.

How to Make Martini Olive Dip

For more detailed instructions with weights and measurements, jump to the printable recipe card.

Mix some of the ingredients: Combine softened cream cheese with sour cream, mayonnaise, the olive juice, garlic, onion powder, and some salt and pepper, in a large bowl.
Add the drained chopped olives and blue cheese: Stir these ingredients in carefully, so as not to break up the blue cheese any more.
The finishing touches: Put the mixture into a large martini glass or serving dish, and garnish with chopped green olives, blue cheese crumbles and some chopped chives, then serve.

Substitutions and Variations

Dairy ingredients: The dairy part can be tweaked if you wish, so in place of the sour cream and mayonnaise, you could use just mayonnaise, just sour cream, or even replace both with Greek yogurt (the unflavored kind, of course).
Optional add-ins: Feel free to mix in some cayenne pepper, goat cheese or chopped blue cheese stuffed olives, if you like, or mix and match different kinds of olives for an olive garnish.
Make it deluxe: Another idea, to add more depth of flavor, would be to sauté minced onions in oil until soft, and then deglaze the pan with vodka or gin (whichever you prefer in a martini cocktail). Once the mixture is cool, you can mix it in with the cream cheese mixture.

How to Serve this Blue Cheese and Olive Dip

With dippers: Pair this recipe for dirty martini dip with your favorite potato chips, crackers, pretzels, melba toast pieces, vegetable crudites, or tortilla chips. Try farinata or homemade focaccia as a more unusual dipper.
With other dips: You might like to make other dips to serve, in case some people aren’t keen on olives. Examples include baked artichoke dip, guacamole and smoked bacon cheese dip.

How to Store Dirty Martini Dip

Store: Leftovers will only keep for a couple days before the ingredients separate, so try to only make as much as you need.
Freeze: This dirty martini dip with blue cheese doesn’t freeze well because it’s so dairy-heavy, so make it fresh for the most delicious results.