Southwestern Layered Bean Dip

Very easy to make and very tasty. Zapped the bean mixture & cheese, and spread the sour cream the night before. Prior to serving time, spread the shredded lettuce and chopped tomato and avocado, then popped back into the fridge until time to eat. Really good.

I made a pizza with this recipe: I mixed the first 6 ingredients and microwaved. I put a flatbread in the toaster oven to crisp. When crisp, I put ½ cup of the bean mixture over the flatbread, sprinkled with cheese and added my preferred toppings; today they were jalepenos, avocado, and cilantro. It was delicious and I used Joseph's Multi-grain Flatbreat that had only 100 calories for the whole thing. Filling and calorie friendly if you tailor the toppings to your dietary budget!

HUGE volume! This is so tasty though! I didn't have enough space in the dish for lettuce (as I saw someone else commented that it was not necessary). I had olives but totally forgot to add them. So I still have a can of olives I can use for something else. Great snack, my friends loved it, and I left them with the leftovers as they said it would be good inside of a burrito. :)

Vegan Version; I make dry beans in slow cooker as I like to add my own seasoning and veggies, no fat added! I add the cheese to the warm beans before I mash them. I use Diya cheeses, Tofutti cream cheese and Better Than sour cream. Even my non vegan friends love this!

Made a huge dip. Healthy and substantial! I made this and brought it with me to a dinner party of 8 people as an appetizer. It was a big hit! I used low fat sour cream and low fat cheddar cheese. Nobody knew the difference. It was a very large dip and I ended up with plenty of leftovers which were perfect for fajitas the next day! Next time I will make it a little more spicy. I added more cheese than what was recommended. I also didn't find black beans, so I used a can of mixed beans. Ripe avocados were key! Delicious! Pros: Healthy, great taste, filling

Delicious I used the fat free sour cream and left off the avocados to decrease the fat content (a medium avocado has 31 grams of fat!--albeit 'good' fat). It was a complete hit.

I absolutely agree about the unrealistic portion size. The dip was delicious, but 7 grams of fat per half a cup is still not what I would call a "low-fat" snack. But.. DELICIOUS! :)

I absolutely agree about the unrealistic portion size. The dip was delicious, but 7 grams of fat per half a cup is still not what I would call a "low-fat" snack. But.. DELICIOUS! :)

I made this last night for a few friends who came over. Let me put it to you this way, there were only 5 of us and the ENTIRE thing was gone in about 20 mins! It was so good, and the guys had no clue it was a healthier version of what they were use to. One of them even commented, "I've never had this type of dip hot before, it's usually served cold. This is SO MUCH BETTER!" Kudos to Eating Well!