Smoked Oyster Dip or Spread (CQ #4 - Wales) Recipe

Nutritional

Serving Size: 1 (33.4 g)

Calories 60.2

Total Fat - 3.6 g

Saturated Fat - 2.2 g

Cholesterol - 14.3 mg

Sodium - 147.5 mg

Total Carbohydrate - 0.8 g

Dietary Fiber - 0 g

Sugars - 0.3 g

Protein - 6 g

Calcium - 181 mg

Iron - 0.4 mg

Vitamin C - 0.1 mg

Thiamin - 0 mg

Step by Step Method

Step 1

In a bowl, beat the cream cheese, yogurt & smoked oysters until well-blended (I used my hand-held stick blender for this).

Step 2

Fold in the the celery & cilantro (or parsley) & refrigerate until ready for use.

Step 3

Serve w/assorted crackers or dippers of choice.

Tips

No special items are required, but a hand-held stick blender is recommended.

Being the resourceful little critter that I sometimes am, I actually whipped this up at work, lol! I didn't bring my stick blender with me, but I used nearly-room temp light cream cheese, so it mixed pretty well by hand. I like smoked oysters, but after seeing how they looked after mashing them, I wasn't so sure that this was gonna go well. Well, it went better than well! After everything is blended together, the ook factor of smooshed oysters was completely gone. I've never actually seen any lemon yogurt that wasn't sweetened, so I just used some nonfat plain Greek yogurt, and added a bit of lemon pepper seasoning for the lemon flavor (which is highly recommended, BTW). This was really tasty on some Keebler Sociables crackers, and I think it would probably be really good for stuffed celery as well. I bet you could even get this past some of the declared smoked oyster haters out there, since the cream cheese and yogurt cut a lot of the strength of the oysters' flavor. Oh, and I went with the cilantro option, since that's something I ALWAYS have on hand. Now the only downside is that my cubicle at work kinda smells like the docks, but hopefully it will air out by the time the first shift shows up (if not, deny, deny, deny, lol). I don't currently have a photo, since fluorescent office lighting at night does no favors to food photography, so I will try to snap a daylight pic tomorrow at home. Thanks for posting, my fellow Happy Camper! Made for CQ 2017 Wales (Welsh Folklore Challenge)