Swedish kaviar dip with cottage cheese
25 min · 18 g protein · 199 cals / serving
The Swedish party dip everyone's mum makes, lightened: cottage cheese blended silky with lemon and stirred through with salty, smoky kaviar from the tube, chopped boiled egg, red onion, chives and dill, with a zigzag of kaviar squeezed over the top. Creamy, salty and fresh, for scooping with cucumber, radishes, carrots and a little broken knäckebröd.
Ingredients
- 2 boiled eggs, hard-boiled and peeled
- 1 3/4 cups cottage cheese 1.5%, light (1.5 %) cottage cheese
- 3 tbsp light smoked cod roe spread (kaviar), light smoked cod roe spread (lätt kaviar) from a tube, divided
- 3 tbsp red onion, very finely chopped
- 3 tbsp fresh chives, snipped
- 2 tbsp fresh dill, chopped
- a few grinds black pepper
To serve
- 1 cucumber, cut into thick rounds
- 10 radishes, halved
- 2 carrots, cut into sticks
- 3 slices rye crispbread crispbread, whole grain rye with bran, 15% fibre, broken into pieces
Steps
- Lower the eggs into boiling water and boil for 9–10 minutes, then cool them in cold water and peel. Chop them finely.
- Blend the cottage cheese with the lemon juice for 1–2 minutes until completely smooth and thick, with no curds left; if your cottage cheese is very wet, drain it in a sieve for 10 minutes first. Stir in 2 tbsp of the kaviar, the red onion, most of the chives and dill and the black pepper, then fold in the chopped egg, keeping a spoonful aside. Taste before adding salt: the kaviar usually brings enough. Chill for at least 30 minutes so it thickens.
- Spoon the dip into a bowl, squeeze the rest of the kaviar over the top in a zigzag and scatter with the reserved egg, chives and dill. Serve cold with the cucumber rounds, radishes, carrot sticks and pieces of knäckebröd for scooping.
Good to know
The classic with crème fraiche?
The usual kaviardipp is crème fraiche and kaviar. Swap half the cottage cheese for crème fraiche for a richer party version, and use the original kaviar instead of the light one if you like; blending the cottage cheese smooth first is what keeps the all-cottage-cheese dip creamy rather than lumpy.
Make ahead?
It keeps 2 days covered in the fridge and tastes even better after a few hours. Add the zigzag of kaviar and the herbs on top just before serving.
With chips?
A bowl of potato chips is the party classic. The vegetables and crispbread make it a snack you can come back to all evening, and it is lovely spread on rye bread with sliced egg.
Alternative
Per
- Calories
- 66
- Protein
- (36%)
- 6 g
- Fat
- (29%)
- 2 g
- Carbohydrates
- (34%)
- 6 g
- of which sugar
- 3 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 236 mg
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As written, 797 kcal goes into the pot and 1205 g of ingredients comes out as about 1205 g of food: 66 kcal per 100 g. Cooking moves water and energy density is the score's biggest lever, so the dish is scored as cooked, not as an average of its parts. Every ingredient links to its food page, with the same data and score. The label's percentages are each macronutrient's share of the calories. The full formula.