Mom's Shrimp Butter
"My mom always made this when we had company. Any leftovers are superb on toasted bagels the next morning!"
photo by twissis
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 2 (240.97 g) can shrimp (small or medium)
- 177.44 ml butter, softened
- 226.79 g package cream cheese, softened
- 29.58 ml onions (grated or minced)
- 1 lemon
- 59.16 ml mayonnaise
directions
- Place butter and cream cheese in large work bowl of food processor and pulse briefly to mix.
- Juice the lemon.
- Add shrimp, lemon juice, onion, and mayonnaise to work bowl and pulse until shrimp is chopped and everything is mixed well.
- Add salt & pepper to taste.
- Best if made the day before and refrigerated overnight. Good with stone-ground wheat crackers or the small round party rye bread.
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Reviews
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This recipe is great. Easy to put together, and so tasty. The cream cheese and butter was a good base. I grated my onions to get most of the onion juice into the recipe. The lemon added that punch and freshness to the whole. Be sure to rinse the canned shrimp before using. Thanks so much for sharing this wonderful recipe. -
This spread was awesome! It was the first one to go on the buffet! -
This was a great appetizer that I made to bring to my sisters. I served it in a bread bowl, with bread pieces, and pita and bagel chips. Everyone dug in and helped themselves, and the bowl was empty when I left! It was a big hit with my family, and I look forward to making and sharing this again and again! Thank you for sharing it with us Appleydapply! Made for Zaar Stars Tag Game 5/09 Linda -
Made for the *Best of 2008* cookbook game as a prize, this is a very tasty & easy quick-fix. I made a half recipe for 2 of us, used minced leek for the onion & added a generous amt of Old Bay Seasoning as a pers pref. My DH started his Easter holiday after work today & welcomed this as a treat to celebrate w/a glass of wine. Thx for sharing the recipe w/us. :-) -
Excellent appetizer! This is one of the best. I used cooked frozen, thawed shrimp, cut up and the rest as written. I wish I would have made more, it is delicious. Served with Carr's sesame crackers.
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Tweaks
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Went to make a half batch but our cans of prawns/shrimp are 200 grams (just a tad over 1oz short of the 8 1/2 ounces) so I added extra frozen cooked prawns and made a full batch, our cream cheese is 250 grams which works out to 9 ounces, just added to lot and I for allergy reasons subbed spring onion/scallion for the onions. My lemon produced 1/4 cup of juice. We enjoyed this as an afternoon snack with jatz crackers - as there was only 2 of us there is plenty left over. Good idea to take it out of the fridge about 15 to 30 minutes before serving or it is very firm. Thank you appleydapply, made for Newest ZAAR Tag.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
appleydapply
United States
