Recipe- Highly Addictive Smoked Salmon Cheese Ball

This smoked salmon cheese ball is always a party favorite. It’s a simple mix of smoked salmon, cream cheese, sour cream, red onion, and lemon pepper, then rolled in chopped pecans and herbs. It’s soft, creamy, savory, smokey and highly addictive! Your guests will love it. Just layer crackers or veggie sticks around the ball and you’ve got one beautiful looking dish to serve at your next holiday party.

Ingredients

16 ounces cream cheese
12 ounces smoked salmon, or regular salmon plus 1 teaspoon liquid smoke (see notes above)
2 tablespoon sour cream
1/2 cup red onion, finely diced
1 1/2 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning
1 cup pecans, roughly chopped
2 tbsp fresh herbs (chives, parsley, dill, etc), chopped

Method

* Add the cream cheese, sour cream, salmon, red onion, and lemon pepper to a mixing bowl.

* Use your hands to mix everything together. Alternatively, you could use a stand mixer.

* Form the cheese mixture into a ball with your hands. The cheese will be soft, but it will firm up once chilled. If you feel it's too soft to make a ball, you can chill it for 30 minutes.

* Mix together your chopped pecans and fresh herbs. Place them in a single layer on a plate or cutting board.

* Roll the cheese ball into the pecans, until the entire outside is coated.

* Serve immediately with crackers or veggie slices or refrigerate the cheese ball, until desired.

* The flavor becomes more intensified the longer the ball sits in the fridge. So you can certainly make this the day before it's needed.