Spinach French Onion Cob Dip – Australia’s favorite dip!

June 20, 2026

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Meet Australia’s favorite dip!!! This Spinach French Onion Cob Dip is made utilizing a French Onion Soup combine and is served in a cob bread loaf. It’s unapologetically retro, gloriously retro, breaks each real-food rule I preach, and is totally addictive!!

Spinach French Onion Cob Dip

This dip has been a fixture at Australian gatherings for many years, and whenever you take one chunk you’ll perceive why!! It’s a French onion dip with spinach stirred by means of it that’s famously served in a hollowed out cob loaf, a spherical crusty bread loaf that doubles as an edible serving bowl. Ripping into the dip-soaked bread on the finish is the perfect half!!

And in the event you grew up in Australia, you already know that there’s one sacred rule about this dip – it should, I repeat MUST, be made utilizing a packet of French onion soup combine somewhat than caramelising onions your self. Now shouldn’t be the time to get snobby on me and demand you’re going to make it from scratch, Australia doesn’t approve! Some issues are good precisely as they’re, and this Spinach French Onion Cobb Loaf Dip is certainly one of them. 🥰

(PS Save onion caramelisation efforts for this Do-it-yourself French Onion Dip, it’s actually value each minute!)

Components in Spinach French Onion Cob Dip

This dip is such a staple in Australian households there’s a recipe on the again of the French Onion soup packet – 1 packet soup combine, 300g/10oz bitter cream, 1 cup mayonnaise, 1 field frozen spinach. I personally discover it too salty, the French onion flavour overpowering, and it’s too heavy on mayo-grease. My model makes use of half the mayonnaise and has an entire block of cream cheese for additional creaminess and a extra balanced, much less salty flavour.

French Onion Soup Powder (40g/1.4 oz) – You want one complete packet of French onion soup powder. Not like my retro French Onion Soup Dip, salt-reduced gained’t work right here, you will see that the dip under-seasoned. We want all of the salt!
Cob bread loaf – It is a spherical crusty bread that’s offered right here in Australia. I desire a sourdough one as a result of it’s sturdier, so the bread items don’t disintegrate when dipped and the bowl itself is strong. Select one on the smaller aspect, round 25cm/10″, so the dip fills the bowl proper to the highest. For those who can solely discover a big one (some are mega!), make your bowl shallower. 🙂

⚡️Newsflash – it doesn’t must be spherical! For those who can’t discover a spherical cob loaf, any bread loaf will probably be wonderful. A small to medium sourdough or pana di casa can be terrific.
⚡️One other newsflash! Bread doesn’t must be current! You may even serve the dip in an everyday bowl and pile crackers, chips, veggie sticks on the aspect. 🙂
Frozen chopped spinach – You may sauté recent child spinach or English spinach as an alternative, however I by no means have and possibly by no means will, not for this dip!!
Mayonnaise – I like to recommend utilizing complete egg mayonnaise which has a smoother flavour, much less vinegary and fewer candy than common mayonnaise. I like S&W and Hellmans. Kewpie would additionally work.
Bitter cream – The recipe requires 300g / 10oz which is without doubt one of the normal measurement tubs we get right here in Australia. If in case you have a 250g/8oz one, simply prime up with yogurt or extra mayonnaise somewhat than getting an entire second tub simply to make use of a bit. Substitute with a thick plain yogurt and an additional dollop or two of mayonnaise.
Cream cheese – This isn’t an ingredient listed within the back-of-packet recipe for Spinach French Onion Dip. However I like to make use of it as a result of it provides the dip a beautiful velvety, wealthy dip texture with out utilizing copious quantities of mayonnaise. For those who don’t have it, you’ll be able to substitute with an additional 1/2 cup every of mayonnaise and bitter cream.

That’s it! No salt, no pepper, no recent something. How good is that! 😉

Easy methods to make Spinach French Onion Dip

I take advantage of a “make it now” methodology as a result of I by no means appear to have the foresight to plan forward to permit issues to melt or thaw. However, if you’re extra organised than me, you’ll be able to skip the microwaving steps. 🙂

1. The dip

Soften cream cheese – Put the cream cheese in a microwave-proof bowl and break it up roughly into 8 or so chunks utilizing the wood spoon you intend to combine the dip with. Microwave for 30 seconds on excessive, then combine till it’s easy and fairly unfastened, like bitter cream.
Add the bitter cream, mayonnaise and French Onion Soup powder, and provides it a great combine.

Thaw and squeeze – Thaw the frozen spinach within the microwave – it takes me 1 1/2 minutes on excessive. Then seize handfuls and squeeze out extra water.
Combine in spinach – Add the spinach into the dip and blend. Dip, accomplished! You culinary genius, you!! 🥳

3 hour relaxation – Put the bowl within the fridge for 3 hours (and even in a single day) to let the flavours meld.
Pour the dip into the cob loaf bowl (under) and serve with the bread items on the aspect for dipping!

heat baked model

I often serve this dip at room temperature, however there’s something very cosy about serving it heat from the oven! I loosely wrap the dip crammed bread with foil and bake for half-hour. Oil spray and salt the bread items, scatter across the unwrapped cob dip and bake for an extra quarter-hour till the bread items are evenly browned. I’ve popped these instructions within the recipe card too.

2. slicing the Cob loaf bowl

You may minimize the bread bowl out utilizing this methodology it doesn’t matter what form your bread is. You may even do that with particular person bread rolls – think about that! Your very personal cob dip, all to your self!! 🎉

Cob loaf bowl – Minimize the lid off the cob bread (about 2.5cm / 1″). Use a bread knife for this, it’s best!
Minimize circle – Minimize a circle into the bread, leaving a 1.5 – 2cm edge and base (0.6 – 0.8″) . Take care to not minimize all over the bottom.
Rating the center of the bread into 2.5cm / 1″ squares.

Pull the items out to create the bowl.
Cob loaf dip bowl, accomplished! 🎉
Minimize the lid into 2.5cm / 1″ items.

Ripping into that bread bowl!

I like to recommend including some crackers or chips on the aspect too (or, I suppose, veggie sticks), since you’ll find yourself with extra dip than the bread alone can deal with . My favorite is obvious crinkle minimize potato chips. They go SO WELL with French Onion flavoured dips – attempt it as soon as and also you’ll be transformed for all times!

And don’t overlook, whereas ordinarily you’re feeling a way of disappointment as you see a bowl of dip nearing the top, with a cob loaf dip it’s truly trigger for celebration. As a result of now you get to tear aside the dip-soaked bread bowl!! Frankly, some would argue that is the entire cause we made the dip within the first place – and I’d discover it tough to disagree……🥰

There you go. An ideal Australian traditional. Sensible in its simplicity. Don’t overthink it. Simply embrace the powder.

Hope you get an opportunity to attempt it! – Nagi x

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Spinach French Onion Cob Dip – Australia’s favorite dip!

Spinach French Onion Cob Dip

Components in Spinach French Onion Cob Dip