Apricot Blue Cheese Spread
This apricot blue cheese spread is perfect on celery, but can also be served with any of your favorite vegetables or crackers!
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons crumbled blue cheese
- 3 tablespoons fat-free cream cheese
- 1/2 cup plain fat-free yogurt
- 1/4 cup dried apricots
- 1/4 cup dried dates
- 1/4 chopped pecans or sunflower seeds
- 8 stalks celery cut into 3 to 4 inch sticks
Directions
Using a Food Processor: Place all ingredients in a food processor. Pulse until fruit and nuts or seeds are chopped. Refrigerate spread until ready to use. Fill celery sticks with spread and serve.
Without a Food Processor: Chop apricots and dates. Mix blue cheese, cream cheese and yogurt by hand or with a hand mixer until smooth. Stir in chopped fruit and nuts or seeds. Refrigerate spread until ready to use. Fill celery sticks with spread and serve.
Serves 4.
| Nutrition Facts | |
|---|---|
| Servings Per Recipe: 4 | |
| Amounts Per Serving | |
| Calories: 157 | |
| % Daily Value | |
| Total Fat: 7 g | 11% |
| Saturated Fat: 2 g | 8% |
| Cholesterol: 6 mg | 2% |
| Sodium: 208 mg | 9% |
| Carbohydrate: 20 g | 7% |
| Dietary Fiber: 3 g | 14% |
| Protein: 6 g | 11% |
| Vitamin A | 17% |
| Vitamin C | 10% |
| Calcium | 14% |
| Iron | 6% |