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Cream Cheese And Garlic Dip With Pita Toasts (Low Fat)

Courses: Dips and Spreads, Starters and appetizers
Serves: 12 people

Recipe Ingredients

8 oz 227gLow-calorie cream cheese
2 tablespoons 30mlLow calorie mayonnaise
1/2   Lemon - juice of
3   Garlic cloves - pressed (large)
1/4   Onion - finely minced (small)
1 teaspoon 5mlDried dill
1 teaspoon 5mlHerbal salt substitute
  Tabasco sauce - to taste
1   Red bell pepper
  Pita Toasts
3   Round whole-wheat pita bread (large)
1 teaspoon 5mlGarlic powder

Recipe Instructions

In a small bowl, mix together cream cheese, mayonnaise, lemon juice, garlic, onion, dill, and salt substitute. Add Tabasco(r) to taste. Cut top off bell pepper and remove seeds. Spoon dip into hollowed-out bell pepper, cover with plastic wrap, and chill while you make the pita toasts.

Pita Toasts: Cut each round of pita bread into 4 equal wedges. Toast until crisp, then open each wedge and dust inside lightly with garlic powder. Then arrange on a platter with dip.

Makes 12 wedges.

Source:
The California Culinary Academy

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