Cream Cheese, Dried Fig, and Walnut Spread
"Spread on pear or apple slices, crackers, or toast.
From Fig Heaven© 2004 by Marie Simmons"
photo by karen
- Ready In:
- 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Yields:
-
1 1/2 cups
ingredients
- 6 large calimyrna dried figs, stems trimmed, quartered
- 8 ounces cream cheese, at room temperature
- 1⁄4 cup chopped walnuts
- 1⁄2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 tablespoons thinly sliced green onion tops
directions
- Add figs to the container or a food processor; finely chop.
- Add in the cream cheese; process until combined.
- Add in the walnuts and salt; pulse just to blend.
- Scrape mixture into a bowl.
- Add in the scallions, if desired; stir to combine.
- Note--to finely chop figs in a food processor, lightly brush or spray the inside of the processor bowl and metal blade with vegetable oil; if the figs are unusually dry, reconstitute them in boiling water for 10 minutes, drain, and blot dry before chopping.
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Reviews
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I really loved the combination of flavors in this wonderful cream cheese spread. I took some liberties with the amounts of the ingredients since I was using up about 2 oz of light cream cheese. I probably went heavier than the recipe called for on the figs and walnuts given how little cream cheese I was using, but I ended up with a treat. I cut up the figs into small pieces and sprayed the blade with cooking spray, and it blended in my mini-food processor easily. Yum! -
Thanks for a great recipe....was really enjoyed by all. A keeper!
