Salmon Ball

[T-Dawgg]

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Salmon Ball – from Richard/Wendy Lee

This is a family favourite and something low carb to take to parties. I surround the ball with celery sticks
(for those who are LC) and crackers.
... Ingredient Carb
Grams Fibre
Grams Calorie
Count
1 15oz can salmon OR 2 cups cooked, flaked salmon OR (this is
...what I do) 1cup smoked salmon, flaked and 1/2 can of salmon
....(large backbones and larger bones removed) 0 0 591.0
16 oz cream cheese room temp. 12.4 0 1584.0
1 tsp. lemon juice 0.4 0 1.3
2 tsp. (or to taste) liquid hickory smoke---OMIT IF using
....1/2 smoked salmon 0 0 0
1/4 cup minced onion 3.5 0.8 15.2
Black pepper to taste 1.3 0.6 5.4
1/4 cup parsley (fresh or dried) 2.8 1.6 14.4
1/2 cup chopped nuts (assume pecans) 8.3 5.7 411.2
TOTAL 28.7 8.7 2622.5
...
Mix lemon, pepper, onion and salmon in food processor until very fine. Then mix that with your cream
cheese to for a nice paste. Make into two balls and roll it in the parsley/nut mixture.
...
Whole recipe = 28.7 grams of carbohydrate and 2622.5 calories
Per serving (assume 8 appetizer servings) = 3.6 grams of carbohydrate and 327.8 calories
Per serving (subtracting fibre grams) = 2.5 grams of carbohydrate