Bleu Cheese & Yogurt Cucumber Bites w/ Cranberries

Shellsmiley
Shellsmiley Posts: 323 Member
in Food and Nutrition
This is a neat recipe I found from a local page on facebook that posted this recipe:

Bleu Cheese & Yogurt Cucumber Bites with Cranberries

http://fullbellysisters.blogspot.ca/2013/01/bleu-cheese-yogurt-cucumber-bites-w.html

NEWbleu1_zpscc89e356.jpg

My cucumber was pretty enormous. I used less than half of it to get the 16 slices I used for this dish. I just made these for myself as part of my post-workout lunch; if you're making these for a crowd, it's easy to make larger amounts. I cut them on a slight diagonal for more surface area on which to put the topping.

Ingredients
yield: 16 bites

English (seedless) cucumber, cut into sixteen slices, about 1/4" thick
1/4 cup crumbled bleu cheese
1/4 cup plain Greek yogurt
1 large scallion, chopped (reserve some of the chopped greens to top the bites)
1-2 tsp. dried cranberries, minced
freshly-ground salt and pepper, to taste

In a small bowl stir together the yogurt, cheese and scallions, adding salt and pepper to taste. You can make this yogurt-cheese mixture the day before; it's not necessary but it actually gives the flavors a change to meld well.

Arrange the cucumber slices on a large plate or platter. Top each slice with a small dollop of the yogurt-cheese mixture. Then sprinkle the reserved, chopped scallion greens and the minced cranberries over all the bites.

The whole platter is less than 250 calories, so whether you're eating it yourself or sharing with friends, you can really dig in!

NEWbleu2_zpsc8a31c72.jpg

Replies

Categories