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Veggie Shooters (Crudites with Ranch Dip)

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These veggie shooters with fresh cut vegetables served in individual shot glasses and your favorite dressing makes for an easy, healthy, elegant appetizer. No double dipping!

These veggie shooters with fresh cut vegetables served in individual shot glasses and your favorite dressing makes for an easy, healthy, elegant appetizer. No double dipping!Veggie Shooters (Crudites with Ranch Dip)

I love this colorful appetizer because it’s quick and requires no cooking, a few other no cook healthy app ideas are Smoked Salmon Pinwheels, Tuna Deviled Eggs, and Zucchini Carpaccio.

Think color and use your favorite vegetables; raw zucchini or celery would also be great. These are also kid friendly, my daughter loves bell peppers, carrots and cucumbers.

Of course, you can buy store bought dressing to save time, but whipping up a batch of your own is easy. You can make the dip and cut the vegetables ahead of time, then assemble when you are ready to serve it. If you are serving vegans or dairy free diets, swap the ranch dip for hummus!

If you’re heading to a Holiday party and are worried about over-eating, bring these veggie shooters and skip the chips!

These veggie shooters with fresh cut vegetables served in individual shot glasses and your favorite dressing makes for an easy, healthy, elegant appetizer. No double dipping!

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Veggie Shooters (Crudites with Skinny Ranch Dip)

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Cals:73
Protein:4
Carbs:10
Fat:2
These veggie shooters with fresh cut vegetables served in individual shot glasses and your favorite dressing makes for an easy, healthy, elegant appetizer. No double dipping!
Course: Appetizer, Snack
Cuisine: American
These veggie shooters with fresh cut vegetables served in individual shot glasses and your favorite dressing makes for an easy, healthy, elegant appetizer. No double dipping!
Prep: 20 minutes
Total: 20 minutes
Yield: 11 servings
Serving Size: 1 /4 cup dip with vegetables

Ingredients

For the skinny ranch dip:

  • 3/4 cup fat free sour cream
  • 3/4 cup fat free Greek yogurt
  • 1/3 cup Hellman's light mayonnaise
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh chives or dill
  • 1 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
  • 1 tsp salt
  • freshly ground pepper
  • 1-2 tbsp white balsamic vinegar
  • 1 cup 1% low fat buttermilk

For the crudites:

  • 1 yellow bell pepper, cut into strips
  • 1 red bell pepper, cut into strips
  • 1 large English cucumber, cut into strips
  • 3 medium carrots, peeled and cut into strips
  • 11 baby arugula leaves for garnish
  • 11 shot glasses

Instructions

To make the dip:

  • In a small bowl combine the sour cream, yogurt, mayonnaise, garlic, powder, onion powder, parsley, chives, salt, and cracked pepper.
  • Mix well.
  • Stir in the white balsamic vinegar; then buttermilk.
  • Adjust the seasonings to taste, adjusting the vinegar as needed, the flavors will become bolder over time.

To assemble the shooters:

  • Place 1/4 cup of dip in each glass.
  • Place the strips of vegetables in each glass and serve cold.

Last Step:

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Nutrition

Serving: 1 /4 cup dip with vegetables, Calories: 73 kcal, Carbohydrates: 10 g, Protein: 4 g, Fat: 2 g, Saturated Fat: 0.5 g, Cholesterol: 4.4 mg, Sodium: 331 mg, Fiber: 1 g, Sugar: 4 g

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28 comments on “Veggie Shooters (Crudites with Ranch Dip)”

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    Melissa brooker

    I love this ranch recipe! I do use both chives and dill because I enjoy both, and I use less buttermilk. I like to leave it thicker for dipping and add Extra buttermilk if I want it on a salad, but this is the only ranch dip/dressing recipe I will ever use! Warning, at first taste you may think it’s under seasoned,  it let it rest a few hours, the first time I made a mistake of adding extra garlic powder and it was overpowering later. The spices are the perfect quantity and really develop over time!

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    Marilyn Brown

    I have proper "shooter glasses,Would it be okay to use those instead of "shot glasses?Know are not as wide.

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    Jessica Patton

    I'm going to make this for my daughter's 1st birthday party next month. I've found plastic shot glasses at PartyCity.com and will use those to hold it. Should be fun!! Thanks for the inspiration!

  4. Thanks for a great recipe!! I have added it to my Mouth Watering Mondays for New Years Eve. Come on over to see it at www.noshingwiththenolands.com Happy New Year, Cheers Tara

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    Selina Martin

    We do a recipe close to your veggie shooters but substitute the chives and yellow bell pepper but the taste remains the same – crispy.

  6. Thank you, Gina. I had planned to have some cheese, crackers, salami, etc. for the family to snack on Christmas Day (after brunch and gift opening) and wanted to do some veggies but couldn't think of a way to make them easy and appealing enough that everyone would actually eat some of them.

    I've got those same little glasses from B,B&B, so I'll make these up and everyone can put one on their plate next to the less-than-skinny options. The prospect of lessening the chance of spreading the traditional Christmas colds of some family members is the cherry on top!

    1. On Christmas Day, after opening gifts, I brought out these little glasses with ranch dressing and bright veggies. I placed the glasses on small plates, with more veggies on each plate for additional dipping. They were such a hit, every single person (including the 3-year-old) cleaned up every shred of all those crunchy, colorful vitamins.

      Thank you for such a great idea.

  7. It is so nice , thank you so much for sharing all your great and tasty recipes 🙂
    Misty from Belgium

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    Cookin' Canuck

    Oh yes, this is what I'm craving after an overload of sweets…veggies, veggies, veggies. What a fun way to present veggies to kids (and adults).

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      Michelle Weatherly

      I am so with you there! It's not even Christmas, and I am completely burned out on sweets.

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    Shannon Michael

    My daughter is having her Junior girl scout friends over on Friday for a little Christmas party. I'll whip this up for them — along with cookies and holiday treats of course. Nice to have a healthy option for them. I'll see how it goes and let you know! I've always made ranch from the package, although tried to make it with Low Fat Hellmann's and Greek yogurt, so now I'm glad to have a homemade version.

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    Gina @ Skinnytaste

    I got them at Bed Bath and Beyond, but I would check a dollar store or just buy a set of shot glasses. Makes a great hostess gift too.

  11. ah, I LOVE this. I may do this for a holiday party I have coming up, where did you get the glasses???