Crudités with Two Dipping Sauces

Name: Crudités with Two Dipping Sauces
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 16 min
Ingredients: 100 g White cheese (for mentaiko dip); 50 g Spicy mentaiko, deveined; 1/4 tsp Lemon juice; 100 g White cheese (for herb dip); 2 tsp Heavy cream; 1 tsp Finely chopped chives (or your favorite herbs); 1/4 tsp Minced garlic; 1/4 tsp Minced shallot (or onion); a pinch Salt; a pinch Pepper; 1/2 Celery (remove tough fibers, cut into 1 cm-wide sticks); 1 Cucumber (halved lengthwise, then sliced lengthwise into 6–8 pieces); 1/2 Red bell pepper (stem and seeds removed, cut lengthwise into 1 cm-wide sticks); 1/2 Yellow bell pepper (stem and seeds removed, cut lengthwise into 1 cm-wide sticks)

A simple appetizer featuring mentaiko dip and herb dip made with cream cheese, served with fresh vegetable sticks.

16 min

Easy

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Ingredients

White cheese (for mentaiko dip) 100 g

Spicy mentaiko, deveined 50 g

Lemon juice 1/4 tsp

White cheese (for herb dip) 100 g

Heavy cream 2 tsp

Finely chopped chives (or your favorite herbs) 1 tsp

Minced garlic 1/4 tsp

Minced shallot (or onion) 1/4 tsp

Salt a pinch

Pepper a pinch

Celery (remove tough fibers, cut into 1 cm-wide sticks) 1/2

Cucumber (halved lengthwise, then sliced lengthwise into 6–8 pieces) 1

Red bell pepper (stem and seeds removed, cut lengthwise into 1 cm-wide sticks) 1/2

Yellow bell pepper (stem and seeds removed, cut lengthwise into 1 cm-wide sticks) 1/2

Instructions

Make the mentaiko dip

First remove the membrane from the spicy mentaiko, then stir together the white cheese, lemon juice, and all of the ingredients until smooth.

Make the herb dip

Combine the white cheese, heavy cream, chives, minced garlic, and minced shallot. Season with salt and pepper to taste.

Prepare the vegetables

Strip the tough fibers from the celery and cut into 1 cm-wide sticks. Halve the cucumber lengthwise, then slice each half lengthwise into 6–8 pieces. Remove the stems and seeds from the red and yellow bell peppers and cut lengthwise into 1 cm-wide sticks.