Easy Frito Corn Dip

Frito Corn Dip is an easy appetizer that combines crisp corn with cheddar cheese, red onion, green pepper and finely crushed Frito chips for seasoning.

The cold corn dip is tossed in a creamy blend of mayonnaise and sour cream and is served with Fritos Scoops for dipping.

This dip can also double as a side dish—Frito Corn Salad.

What I love about corn dip with Fritos is that it’s great for parties, potlucks, barbecues, football Sunday or anytime you want to set out some chips and dip.

For a spicier kick you can flavor the dip with crushed Chili Cheese Fritos, Jalapeno Fritos or your favorite variety.

This recipe is super simple to make and only takes 10 minutes to throw together.

Tips for Making Frito Corn Dip

Make Ahead: Easy Frito corn dip can be made ahead of time and served cold.

Just be sure to add the crushed Fritos to the dip right before serving. This way, the Frito chips keep their crunch!

Make it Spicier: To bring some spicy heat to the corn dip, add finely diced jalapeno pepper with or without seeds. You can also substitute regular flavored Frito chips with one of the spicier varieties.

Dice and Chop Small Veggies: Since this is a dip, make sure to finely chop the green pepper and red onion.

You want to make sure each Frito scoop is packed with a little of everything!

Frito Scoops: Frito Scoops are perfect for dipping up corn dip. They’re nice and sturdy and the scoop allows you to get the perfect amount of dip in every bite. They’re also the perfect dipper for mango avocado salsa.

Ingredients

This easy corn dip recipe has 6 ingredients and only takes minutes to prep and make.

• Corn: Cold corn dip can be made with canned, fresh or frozen corn. I like to use canned corn since it’s convenient and crisp! Try fiesta corn or white corn to switch things up.
• Cheddar Cheese: What’s a Mexican-inspired dip without cheese? For this dip, use a brick of cheddar cheese and grate it yourself. It tastes way better than the pre-grated kind in a bag.
• Green Pepper: Green pepper adds lovely color to this dip along with a yummy sweet pepper taste.
• Red Onion: Red onion adds a savory bite to corn dip.
• Mayonnaise: Mayonnaise is a must in this recipe! I recommend using full-fat mayo, but you can use a reduced-fat mayo if preferred.
• Sour Cream: This corn dip can be made using only mayo. However, I like a blend of sour cream and mayo, similar to my recipes for Elote with Canned Corn and Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Elote (Cheelotes).
• Fritos Scoops: These salty, crunchy chips are used to season the dip and to scoop up the dip.

How to Make Frito Corn Dip

1. In a medium bowl combine drained canned corn, finely diced red onion, diced green pepper, and grated cheese. Stir until ingredients are well combined.
2. In a separate bowl, stir together the mayonnaise and sour cream until well blended, then combine with corn mixture.
3. Refrigerate the corn dip until ready to serve.
4. Top the corn dip with crushed Fritos right before serving and serve with Frito Scoops chips on the side.

Chili Cheese Frito Corn Dip

A popular way to amp up the flavor of classic Frito Corn Dip is to flavor it with Chili Cheese corn chips. It adds a nice smokey taste.

All you have to do is crush up some chips and stir them in the dip. Then right before serving garnish the dip with some more.

For a hotter corn dip, try Jalapeno Cheese Fritos instead.

More Frito Corn Dip Variations

You really can’t go wrong adding a little of this or a little of that to corn dip.

Here are some of my favorite add-ins.

Vegetables

Jalapeno: For an immense amount of heat add diced jalapeno. Jalapeno with seeds is my choice when adding to dip. Remove seeds if you’d like a mild taste.

Red bell pepper: I love adding red pepper when readily available in my kitchen.

Red pepper is full of vitamin C and adds a bright color to this dish.

Green onion: Green onions are a vegetable I seem to never get enough of.

Any chance I get I love to add green onions to dips, salsa, and soups. Garnish dip with green onions just before serving.

Protein

Black beans: Add black beans for added protein. You may use canned beans or dry beans.

For dry beans follow the cooking directions on the back of the package.

Herbs

Cilantro: Cilantro from the garden is the perfect fresh herb to add to this dip.

Finely chop cilantro and let corn dip marinate in the fridge for the best taste.

Cheese

Cotija cheese: When making Frito corn dip and I am craving elotes. Cotija cheese is a must add to this appetizing dish!

I like to make this dip using Mexican Corn on the Cob ingredients and make this dip an elote corn dip.

It’s mess free and full of Mexican ingredients like finely, chopped, cilantro, chili powder, Tajin.

And of course…. plenty of fresh lime juice!

Pepper jack cheese: For my spicy food lovers! Try pepper jack cheese.

Grate block pepper jack cheese. Cheese quality is better and makes a spicy, hot, corn dip!

Monterey jack cheese: Monterey jack cheese is a milder cheese to use and adds a mild kick to this flavorful appetizer.

Seasonings

Lime juice: Corn dip marinated in fresh lime juice adds tremendous fresh flavor and is a must! If you’re making a Mexican-style corn dip.

Tajin seasoning ( Chili lime salt): Seasoning like chili lime salt is superb on corn!

Taco seasoning: To make a fiesta blend of corn dip try adding taco seasoning.

I love to make a homemade blend.

Anyhow, when in a rush, a taco seasoning packet will do.

Old El Paso is my favorite and has the best-balanced taste of smokey cumin and chili powder.

Chili powder: Add chili powder to corn for a smokey taste.

Corn

Fiesta corn: Try substituting one can of yellow corn with fiesta corn for more flavor.

White corn: I love to use a can of yellow corn and a can of white corn in this corn dip recipe for more dimension.

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