Sun-dried Tomatoes & Pine Nut Cream Cheese Dip

This dip is smooth until the final step.\n\nOnion, mint, sun-dried tomatoes, salt, and cream cheese are blended together. Toasted pine nuts are added only at the end and pulsed briefly.\n\n## Ingredients\n\nMakes about 1 1/2 cups\n\n- 1/4 cup onion, roughly chopped\n- 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves\n- 2 tbsp sun-dried tomatoes\n- salt to taste\n- 1 cup cream cheese\n- 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted\n\n## Method\n\nPulse the onion until minced. Add the mint and pulse until finely chopped. Add the sun-dried tomatoes, salt, and cream cheese and blend until smooth. Add the toasted pine nuts and pulse only until mixed through.\n\n## Toast the pine nuts carefully\n\nThe source gives two methods: a broiler or a dry frying pan. Either way, watch them closely because they brown quickly.\n\n## Texture belongs at the end\n\nAdding the nuts last keeps them perceptible rather than blending them into the cream cheese.\n\nThe dip works because smoothness and texture are deliberately separated in time.