Quick sardine spread with lemon

Quick sardine spread with lemon: creamy, tangy and ready in minutes. With sardines, cream cheese, mustard and chives – savoury on bread or with raw veg.

At a glance

• Serves 4
• Prep time: 5 min
• No cooking needed
• Total time: 5 min
• Calories: 155 kcal per serving
• Protein: 14 g
• Fat: 10 g
• Carbs: 1 g

Ingredients

• 1 tin of sardines (in olive oil)
• 100 g cream cheese
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1 tsp mustard
• 1 handful of chives
• 1 pinch of salt
• 1 pinch of pepper

Method

You’ll need: chopping board · knife · mixing bowl · sieve

1. Drain the sardines well and mash them finely with a fork in a bowl.
2. Add the cream cheese and stir everything into a creamy mixture.
3. Stir in the lemon juice and mustard until the spread is even and well seasoned.
4. Finely slice the chives and fold them in gently.
5. Season with salt and pepper and chill the spread briefly if you like it a little firmer.
6. Serve on wholegrain bread, crackers or with veg sticks, and store leftovers well sealed in the fridge.

Good to know

Sometimes it just needs to be quick and good. This spread is creamy, fresh and pleasantly savoury. Just right for an easy snack on bread.

Swaps

Cream cheese → soft goat's cheese (often a little stronger in flavour, also provides protein and calcium); chives → parsley (brings a little more vitamin C and folate); mustard → horseradish (hotter, used in a similarly small amount); sardines → mackerel (also an oily sea fish with protein and omega-3 fatty acids)

Allergens

Contains fish, milk and usually mustard as allergens. For children, only serve it finely mashed and mildly seasoned; during pregnancy, well-heated or safely preserved tinned sardines are usually fine. Contains: milk, mustard.