Bagel with homemade scallion cream cheese
Cream cheese stirred with plenty of green onion and black pepper tastes like the deli kind, and a tub of it in the fridge makes bagel mornings easy all week.
- 10 min total
- 8 min hands-on
- Anyone can make this
- Serves 4
- About $1.22 a serving
- 470 calories
- Good the next day
- Vegetarian
Dolly says: It’s ready in 10 minutes, start to finish.
Ingredients
For 4 servings.
- 4 green onions, thinly sliced
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 4 bagels, split
From your pantry
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- 1 pinch garlic powder
Each serving has about 470 calories, 14 g protein, 57 g carbs and 21 g fat, and costs about $1.22 at typical US grocery prices. Both are estimates from what the recipe uses.
Missing something?
- No green onions? Chives work.
Steps
Tap an underlined word for a quick explanation.
the green onions, white and green parts.
Thinly slice. Thinly slicing means cutting slices about an eighth of an inch thick, roughly two coins stacked. Thin slices cook in seconds and soften fast, which quick dishes need.
How you’ll know: A slice bends a little when you hold it by one edge, and slow, steady cuts beat fast ones.
Mash the cream cheese in a bowl with a fork until soft and smooth, then in the green onions, pepper and garlic powder.
Stir. Stirring means moving food around with a spoon or spatula so it cooks evenly and doesn’t stick. Unless the recipe says constantly, every so often is plenty, and it gives food time to brown.
How you’ll know: When you drag the spoon across the bottom, nothing is sticking or scorching.
Dolly’s tip: Cream cheese straight from the fridge is stiff. Mash it hard for a minute and it loosens up.Pack it into a lidded container. It keeps 5 days in the fridge and tastes even better after a few hours.
Toast a split bagel until and spread on a thick layer of the cream cheese.
Golden brown. Golden brown is the color of good toast, somewhere between yellow and light brown. It means the outside is cooked and crisp but not burnt.
How you’ll know: It looks like toast and smells toasty; dark brown with a bitter smell means it went too far.
Plan this in Dollop, and get the grocery list
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