I learned this simple recipe for making a good onion soup chip dip years ago. It has probably been about a year since I made some dip using a Toasted Onion Soup Mix for the dip. You normally just add the dry ingredients from the package to sour cream, and then mix thoroughly.

A few days ago, I came across a “simple sour cream dip” recipe. The two ingredients were sour cream, and soy sauce. Hmmm… is that all?

I had a little sour cream left, and I had a partial bottle of soy sauce also in the refrigerator. I had no chips, but I didn’t let that stop me.

I mixed the two ingredients together, thoroughly, and tasted. Oh, my! It was almost the same flavor as if I had added the onion soup ingredients to sour cream. It then came to me that the onion soup mix probably mimicked the soy sauce flavor. I added some salt, although I could have added more ‘salty’ soy sauce. I also tried some garlic powder, and I had some dried onion flakes.

Another time, I ground a single clove of “pressure cooked” garlic and added it to this dip. *Pressure cooked, is a process by which various ingredients are cooked at a low temperature under high pressure. Usually some sweetner (sugar) is added and you end up with a “light in weight” version of the pre-cooked item. I love okra cooked in this way. They look like okra, but they weight almost nothing (all the moisture has been cooked out) and they disintegrate in your mouth (almost like little shards of glass, that don’t cut, but melt into okra flavor… not slimy at all).

So, I would say that with some sour cream, soy sauce, and some onion flakes you could quickly whip up a delicious chip dip at a much lower price than buying the onion soup mix.

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Note the single clove of garlic on top of the chopped onion flakes. This is not raw garlic, but ‘pressure cooked’. It grinds easily to a flavorful powder.

Further exploration: So, if soy sauce is the flavor that comes from the onion soup mix, then wouldn’t the flavor packet that comes with the Oriental Flavor of Ramen Noodles provide the same flavoring? And, I think crumbling up the dry Ramen noodles and adding them to the Chip Dip Mix would add another positive texture. At least, I will be surprised if the flavor packet doesn’t provide the same flavorings as soy sauce, or the onion soup mix.

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Okay, so it’s not the Oriental Flavor, but you don’t know how difficult it is to find a picture of the foil flavor packet online.

ADDENDUM [04/17/21]: I bought a few packets of Ramen Noodle Soup – Soy Sauce (changed the name from Oriental Flavor) Flavor. Sure enough, when you add the ingredients of the flavor packet to sour cream, you get that same “soy sauce” flavor that made the original Onion Soup Dip delicious. I’m not sure how much dip you could make using 1 packet from the Ramen Noodles, but I noted that the mixture was extremely salty.

**It just came to me. Maybe some of the other noodle flavor packets would work with the sour cream also. Shrimp, Beef, Pork, Chicken, Chili, etc. There might be at least one other flavor that “hits the spot.”