Pastrami Cream Cheese Dip Recipes

HOT BAKED REUBEN DIP

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C).
• Place cream cheese in a large bowl; add chopped meat and sauerkraut, sweet pickle relish, mayonnaise, sour cream, ketchup, mustard, Worcestershire sauce, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and shredded cheese. Mix thoroughly with a wooden spoon until well blended, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Transfer mixture to an ovenproof baking dish. Distribute evenly and smooth out the top. To increase the surface exposure, add texture, and encourage browning, roughen up the surface a bit with the tines of a fork.
• Bake in preheated oven until bubbling and browned, 25 to 30 minutes. Let cool slightly before serving, about 15 minutes.

PASTRAMI CREAM CHEESE DIP

Steps:

• 1. Add onions and pastrami (or beef) to a food processor. Chop,not to small,(or chop by hand.)
• 2. Stir into cream cheese. Add rest of ingredients,mix til well blended.
• 3. cover an chill several hours or over night.to blend flavors.
• 4. Serve with hardy cracker-like wheat thins or triscuits. Cocktail rye works really well with this dip

PASTRAMI DIP FOR SANDWICHES

Steps:

• Beat cream sour cream and cream cheese well.
• Blend in green pepper, onion, salt and shredded pastrami.
• Melt butter in pie plate. Sautee chopped pecans or walnuts and blend into mixture.
• Bake in plate at 350ºF. for 20 minutes and serve on pumpernickel bread slices as warm sandwiches, on baked potatoes, or also cold in a hollowed pumpernickel bread with the cut bread pieces for dipping.

PASTRAMI ROLL-UPS

Steps:

• In a small bowl, mix cream cheese and blue cheese until blended. If necessary, pat pastrami and pickles dry with paper towels., Spread about 1 tablespoon cheese mixture over each pastrami slice; top with a pickle spear. Roll up tightly. Cut each roll into 4 slices. Refrigerate leftovers.

BAKED REUBEN DIP

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
• Grease a 9 or 10-inch glass pie plate.
• In a bowl combine the soft cream cheese with garlic powder, cayenne pepper (if using) sour cream and Thousand Island dressing; mix vigorously until very smooth.
• Mix in 1-1/4 cups Swiss cheese and the chopped pastrami or corned beef.
• Spread the mixture into the pie plate.
• Top with the sauerkraut, then sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup Swiss cheese on top.
• At this point you may cover and refrigerate for 24 hours.
• Bake (400 degrees F) for about 15-20 minutes or until edges are bubbly and the mixture is very hot in the middle, you may need a slightly longer baking time if the mixture was chilled.