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Three-Ingredient "Crack" Dip

Browned sausage, cream cheese, and a can of Rotel, melted together in a small crock pot and held warm for scooping.

OriginAmerican
Active15 min
Total75 min
EquipmentSkillet and a small (1.5-2 qt) crock pot
Ingredients
3
Plus chips
Crock pot
Low
About 1 hour, then Warm
Yield
4cups
Fills a small crock pot
1 · BROWN 2 · MELT 3 · SERVE
1 lb ≈ 454 g pork breakfast sausage Brown in a skillet over medium-high, breaking it small.1
8 oz block ≈ 227 g cream cheese, cubed Add on top of the sausage. Cover on Low about 1 hour, stirring once it softens. Switch to Warm and leave the lid off.2
10 oz can ≈ 283 g Rotel diced tomatoes and green chiles Add with its juice, undrained. Stir everything together until smooth and hot.
1 bag tortilla chips, for serving Your favorite chip. Multigrain Tostitos Scoops, for the win.
  1. pork breakfast sausage · BROWN Drain the fat, then tip into the crock pot.
  2. cream cheese, cubed · SERVE Stir now and then so the edges do not scorch.
Protein
Produce
Dairy & Egg
Pantry & Grain
Spice & Seasoning
Liquid & Fat

Notes

Drain the sausage, not the Rotel. Sausage fat pools on top of the dip as it sits warm. The Rotel juice is the only liquid thinning a solid block of cream cheese into something a chip can get through.
Use a small crock pot. In a big one the dip spreads thin and the edges scorch on Warm. A 1.5-2 qt pot keeps it deep enough to stay creamy all party.
Scoops beat flat chips. This is a heavy dip that snaps flat chips. The cup shape of a Scoop carries a full load of sausage.
Original Jason's party dip, sent in over Telegram, September 27, 2026. Quantities are the usual one-pound, one-block, one-can ratio.