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This dip is smooth until the final step.

Onion, mint, sun-dried tomatoes, salt, and cream cheese are blended together. Toasted pine nuts are added only at the end and pulsed briefly.

Ingredients

Makes about 1 1/2 cups

• 1/4 cup onion, roughly chopped
• 1/4 cup fresh mint leaves
• 2 tbsp sun-dried tomatoes
• salt to taste
• 1 cup cream cheese
• 1/4 cup pine nuts, toasted

Method

Pulse 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.

Toast the pine nuts carefully

Use either a broiler or a dry frying pan, and watch the nuts closely because they brown quickly.

Texture belongs at the end

Adding the nuts last keeps them perceptible rather than blending them into the cream cheese.

The dip works because smoothness and texture are deliberately separated in time.