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Bread and Spreads Platter

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  • Prep 20 min
  • Total 20 min
  • Servings 18
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In just 20 minutes, you can offer guests three quick-and-easy cream cheese spreads to put on top of baguette slices.
Updated Dec 17, 2009
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Ingredients

  • 2 containers (8 oz each) chives-and-onion cream cheese spread
  • 1/4 cup diced drained roasted red bell peppers (from 7-oz jar)
  • 1/4 cup chopped pimiento-stuffed green olives
  • 2 tablespoons refrigerated basil pesto (from 7-oz container)
  • Leaf lettuce leaves
  • 1 loaf (20 inch) baguette French bread (12 oz), cut into 1/4-inch slices

Steps

  • 1
    Among 3 small bowls, divide cream cheese. Stir red peppers into cream cheese in 1 bowl. Stir olives into cream cheese in another bowl. Stir pesto into cream cheese in third bowl.
  • 2
    Line serving platter with lettuce leaves. Mound 3 spreads on lettuce leaves. Surround with bread slices.

Tips from the Betty Crocker Kitchens

  • tip 1
    Radicchio, a ruby-red salad green, makes colorful "bowls" for these tasty spreads. Or, use Bibb or leaf lettuce leaves.
  • tip 2
    Make little paper flags identifying the three spreads. Attach them to toothpicks and place in the spreads.

Nutrition

140 Calories, 9g Total Fat, 4g Protein, 11g Total Carbohydrate, 1g Sugars

Nutrition Facts

Serving Size: 1 Serving
Calories
140
Calories from Fat
80
Total Fat
9g
14%
Saturated Fat
5g
25%
Trans Fat
0g
Cholesterol
25mg
8%
Sodium
330mg
14%
Potassium
60mg
2%
Total Carbohydrate
11g
4%
Dietary Fiber
0g
0%
Sugars
1g
Protein
4g
% Daily Value*:
Vitamin A
10%
10%
Vitamin C
8%
8%
Calcium
4%
4%
Iron
6%
6%
Exchanges:
1/2 Starch; 0 Fruit; 0 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 1/2 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choice
1
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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