Smoked Salmon Spread

This is great to eat as a snack or small meal depending on restriction with some veggies, a couple reduced fat crackers, pretzels or how you would eat any tuna or crab salad.

Blend the following in a cuisinart until smooth:

- 8 oz reduced fat cream cheese

- 8 oz nonfat plain greek yogurt

- 1 tsp lemon pepper (mine is a gourmet blend that has salt & garlic in it - you can add a little of these to add flavor)

Add & Pulse till well blended:

- 8 oz Smoked Salmon, chopped (I used 1/2 a 1lb pkg smoked sockeye salmon from costco - the kind used for lox, not the drier kind

- 1 sm sweet onion, diced

This obviously makes a lot - about 3.5 c, but I'll serve it as a dip for guests or take some to work. You could also easily 1/2 it I just like to get rid of containers and use things up.

Nutrition:

7 - 1/2 c. servings

188 cal. 19 g. Protein

10 - 1/3 c. servings

132 cal. 13 g. protein

I ate 1/3 c. tonight with .5 oz (12) snyder's of hanover butter pretzel snaps (the pretzel squares) which only added 60 cal. and 1.5 g protein. This is just about the same cal and protein of a high protein chocolate slim fast shake.

Last suggestion / note:

This is the consistency of a spread/ dip. You could use the entire 1 lb package of salmon without adjusting the other ingredients (more of a tuna salad consistency) which would change the nutrition to:

1/2 cup serving - 219 cal. 25 g. protein

Bethgrove-

I'm glad you are enjoying salmon. I bough the kirkland brand (costco) 'wild alaskan smoked sockeye salmon - 1 lb package) there were 2 different packages there but I do prefer sockeye. If you've never had smoked salmon before there are 2 different kinds 1 is a drier style (i believe it is hot smoked) it looks like normal cooked salmon but has the smoked flavor. The other one is what you might get as an appetizer at a nice restaurant or if you go to a bagel place and get lox (i believe this is cold smoked.) It looks (don't let it scare you) like it is still raw but remains fully cooked and has the same smoked flavor.

I'll be honest I have loved smoked salmon for years but would only eat the drier (hot smoked) kind - because I was put off by the looks of the other kind. This changed this year when I went out and received the cold smoked style as an appetizer and didn't want to hurt the feelings of the person who had ordered it for me - I LOVE IT NOW !!!!!

All I do is open the package and chop up what I am going to use for the dip into medium chunks just to make it easier to pulse into the dip.

Hope this helps!

Thank you so much for the help. We had a football party this weekend and i made it so i would have a nice treat without burning up calories.(like i do at football games). Well i only had a little because so many people liked it will make more this week. It was great thanks for the help with the salmon.

beth

I totally agree - I made another batch last night and blended in the fronds from 2 springs of fresh dill as well and it just added a brightness to the flavor - I did also use 12 oz of the salmon instead of just the 8 - it was great!

this sounds devine! I love smoked salmon. I had to post so I could save the recipe or else I'd never find it again.

Ok, I made this yesterday. I could make myself sick eating this. This is so good! I had to blend it to baby food in order for me to taste it, but I know if it was that good to me then, when I can make it and still leave chunks....OMG!