Low Carb Spreads

SPREADS

Lip Smackin’ Chive

Instructions/Ingredients:
Combine 4 ounces soft cream cheese (3.2 grams of carb) with 4 Tablesps (1/2 stick) soft butter in a blender or food processor.
Add ½ cup chopped chives (0.8 gram of carb).
Add 1 Teasp Worcestershire sauce (1.0 gram of carb) and salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste.

TOTAL YIELD: 18 Tablesps. One Tablesp has 0.3 gram of carb.

Lip Smackin’ Chive with Smoked Salmon

Instructions/Ingredients:
Follow the recipe for Lip Smackin’ Chive(above).
Cover canapés generously with the spread and with slivers of smoked salmon, lox, or nova.
Two ounces of smoked salmon have virtually no carb.

Lip Smackin’ Chive with Prosciutto

Instructions/Ingredients:
Follow the recipe for Lip Smackin’ Chive(above).
Cover canapés generously with the spread and with slivers of Prosciutto.
Two ounces of smoked salmon have virtually no carb.

Lip Smackin’ Chive with Crabmeat

Instructions/Ingredients:
Follow the recipe for Lip Smackin’ Chive(above), but reduce chives to ¼ cup (0.4 gram of carb).
Add 1 Tablesp lemon juice (1.3 grams of carb), add 1 cup cooked, well-cleaned crabmeat.
Mash together.

TOTAL YIELD: 2 cups. One Tablesp has 0.2 gram of carb.

Blue Cheese

Instructions/Ingredients:
Mix together 8 ounces blue cheese or Roquefort – the better the quality, the better the taste – (6.4 grams of carb) with 4 ounces (1 stick) butter.
Add salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.

TOTAL YIELD: 24 Tablesps. One Tablesp has 0.3 gram of carb.

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