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Cream Cheese And Garlic Dip With Pita Toasts

Type: Cheese, Eggs
Courses: 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
3   
1 teaspoon 5mlGarlic powder
  Pita toasts -----
  Whole-wheat pita bread

Recipe Instructions

In a small bowl, mix together cream cheese, mayonnaise, lemon juice, garlic, onion, dill, and salt substitute. Add Tabasco 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.

Recipe By: the California Culinary Academy

Source:
The Quick and Hearty Skiers' and Outdoorpersons' Cookbook

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