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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. In a shallow dish combine 1 tablespoon of the chives, 1 tablespoon of the basil, and the parsley; set aside. | 2. In a medium bowl beat cream cheese and Fontina cheese with an electric mixer on medium speed until smooth. | 3. Beat in the salami and finely chopped roasted red sweet pepper and remaining 2 tablespoons chives, remaining 2 tablespoons basil, the pepper, and garlic. | 4. Form into a ball (or log). | 5. Roll ball in herb mixture. Wrap and chill cheese ball for 4 to 24 hours. | 6. Serve with water crackers or baguette slices, and a nice bottle of Italian wine or sparkling Spumante! | 7. Makes twelve 2-tablespoon servings. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
chive	3	tablespoons	snipped	2.7	0.3915	0.2943	0.0657
basil	3	tablespoons	snipped	1.8285	0.2107	0.2504	0.0509
parsley	2	tablespoons	snipped	2.736	0.4811	0.2257	0.06
cream cheese	1	package	softened	-	-	-	-
fontina cheese	4	ounces		441.126	1.7577	29.0304	35.3128
hard salami	2	ounces	chopped	208.6523	0.9072	14.685	16.2726
red pepper	2	tablespoons	chopped roasted	7.5	1.6519	0.3506	0.0825
black pepper	1/4 - 1/2	teaspoon	cracked	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
garlic clove	1		minced	4.47	0.9918	0.1908	0.015
baguette				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.