A ridiculously moreish sweet paprika spiced cheese spread packed with gherkins, capers, caraway seeds, onions and mustard. Serves 4
Collect together your equipment (see Recipe Notes below) and ingredients.
Finely chop the red onion/shallot, gherkins and capers.
The caraway seeds can be served whole or make them into a powder using a coffee grinder or mortar and pestle.
Make sure the butter and cream cheese are at room temperature and then beat, with an electric whisk until light and fluffy.
Add the sour cream, paprika, caraway seeds, mustard, garlic powder, salt and pepper and beat again until mixed.
Fold in the chopped red onion/shallot, gherkins and capers.
Also fold in any additional ingredients – I have added finely chopped parsley and red pepper.
Store in the fridge and serve:
- on bread, ideally rye, pumpernickel, Kürbiskernbrot, (which is a light rye bread with pumpkin seeds) or bagels
- as a dip with crackers and/or vegetable sticks
- as a filling for tomatoes, cooked mushrooms, celery or hard boiled eggs. (See Recipe Notes)
Equipment:
With hard boiled eggs:
Halve, remove the yolks, mash and mix with some liptauer and then spoon back into the egg whites.