Name: Caramelized Onion and Sour Cream Spread
Yield: Makes 6 to 8 servings
Ingredients: 3 tablespoons plus 1/3 cup olive oil; 1 large red onion, thinly sliced; 1 large red bell pepper, thinly sliced; 1/2 fennel bulb, cored, thinly sliced; 2 teaspoons herbes de Provence; 1 teaspoon sugar; 8 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 1/3 cup sour cream; 1 tablespoon drained capers; 18 4x1 1/2x1/4-inch slices olive bread

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Caramelized Onion and Sour Cream SpreadMark Thomas

Leaping off the backs of onion-soup-mix boxes and showing up at cocktail parties everywhere, Lipton’s sour cream-and-onion dip took the country by storm. Convenient and quick, the dip also tasted great on potato chips, without which, in the fifties anyway, it wasn’t a party. These days it isn’t a party without little toasts topped by something Mediterranean-hence this zesty update.

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