Cream Cheese, Dried Fig, and Walnut Spread

(from saymyname’s recipe box)

1 1/2 cups

Source: Marie Simmons

Categories: Appetizers

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

  1. Add figs to the container or a food processor; finely chop.

  2. Add in the cream cheese; process until combined.

  3. Add in the walnuts and salt; pulse just to blend.

  4. Scrape mixture into a bowl.

  5. Add in the scallions, if desired; stir to combine.

  6. 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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