These budget-friendly dips and spreads are super simple to whizz up and brilliant for fast meals over chol hamoed. Delicious schmeared on matzah or scooped up with crunchy veg. Use them to top baked potatoes or to add protein to a salad.

Choose from a zingy tuna lemon paté packed with citrus zing; favourite bagel topping, salmon and cream cheese — a perfect pairing and more economical than smoked salmon; or mackerel spiked with horseradish (which most of us will have hanging around after our Seders).

Pick your favourite or whip up a batch of each.To serve:

Matzah crackers

Crudites

Method:

For the tuna:

• Drain the tuna and tip the fish into a food processor with the cream cheese, lemon zest and capers.
• Blitz until smooth.
• Season with black pepper, lemon juice and perhaps some salt to taste.

For the salmon:

• Blitz the cream cheese and salmon on a food processor.
• Empty into a bowl and stir in the finely chopped dill and lemon juice. Season with plenty of black pepper and more lemon juice to taste.

For the mackerel:

• Drain the oil from the mackerel and tip the fish into the bowl of a food processor.
• Add the Quark, lemon zest and horseradish and blitz until smooth.
• Tip into a bowl and stir in the pickled cucumbers and parsley.
• Taste and add more lemon, horseradish, salt and pepper according to taste.

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