Pastrami Cream Cheese Dip Recipes

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.

FRENCH DIP PASTRAMI SANDWICH RECIPE

Steps:

• Saute Mushrooms until golden and soft. Sprinkle with garlic salt and pepper to taste. Remove mushrooms from pan and set aside. In the same skillet (without cleaning it), add 1 1/2 cups beef broth and boil for a few minutes to reduce slightly. Season broth to taste (you want it to be flavorful for use as a dip) then remove from heat - this broth is your "au jus" dipping sauce.
• Heat a large pan over medium heat. Add a small pat of butter and when butter is done sizzling, Saute the cut side of the rolls just until golden. Divide the pastrami meat evenly among the four sandwiches. Top with cheese and mushrooms.
• Bake at 450 for 4-5 minutes or until cheese melts and meat is hot.
• Serve each sandwich with an individual ramekin of AuJus - Dip with every bite.

HOT PASTRAMI SPREAD

Steps:

• In a small bowl, beat cream cheese and sour cream until smooth. Stir in pastrami and green pepper., Transfer to a greased 1-qt. baking dish. Sprinkle with pecans if desired. Bake, uncovered, at 350° for 25-30 minutes or until heated though and edges are bubbly. , Cut out bread with a shamrock-shaped cookie cutter if desired. Serve with spread.

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

HOT REUBEN DIP IN A PUMPERNICKEL BREAD BOWL

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Whisk the mayonnaise, ketchup and pickle in a large bowl until combined; season with salt and pepper.
• Add the Swiss cheese, sauerkraut, cream cheese and pastrami to the mayonnaise mixture; stir with a rubber spatula until combined. Using a small serrated knife, hollow out the bread loaf, leaving a ½-inch-thick shell; reserve the cut-out bread. Fill the loaf with the dip; transfer to a baking sheet.
• Slice the reserved bread into pieces and arrange on a separate baking sheet; drizzle with olive oil and season with salt. Bake the bread bowl until the cheese melts and the top is golden brown, about 30 minutes, adding the sliced bread to the oven during the last 10 minutes. Serve with the toasted bread and crackers and/or crudites.

EASY HOMEMADE PASTRAMI

Steps:

• Mix garlic and vegetable oil in a small bowl. Set aside for 1 hour.
• Preheat oven to 225 degrees F (110 degrees C).
• Combine black pepper, paprika, coriander, dry mustard, white pepper, and cayenne pepper in a large bowl. Set aside.
• Cover a baking sheet with a large sheet of heavy-duty aluminum foil. Coat aluminum foil with prepared garlic oil. Lay corned beef brisket on foil and brush with remaining garlic oil.
• Cover all sides of corned beef brisket completely with pepper mixture, reserving 1 to 2 tablespoons.
• With fat side of corned beef brisket up, wrap in the sheet of aluminum foil. Place wrapped corned beef on another sheet of aluminum foil with the seam and fat side down. Place double-wrapped corned beef on a third sheet of aluminum foil (seam down), and wrap again.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 6 hours.
• Remove pastrami from the oven and let cool to room temperature, about 3 hours.
• With pastrami still wrapped in aluminum foil, place in a freezer bag or other plastic bag and refrigerate for 8 to 10 hours.
• Preheat the oven's broiler and set the oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source.
• Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
• Remove pastrami from refrigerator, unwrap, and place on the prepared baking sheet. Sprinkle top with 1 to 2 tablespoons of remaining pepper mixture.
• Place pastrami in the oven, 6 to 8 inches below broiler heat. Broil briefly to brown surface, about 3 to 4 minutes. Remove pastrami from the oven and slice thinly, about 1/8-inch slices.
• Heat a large skillet over low heat.
• Heat pastrami slices in the skillet with a few drops of water until fat begins to turn from white to translucent, about 5 minutes.

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.