Chive Cream Cheese
This homemade chive cream cheese is ready in just 5 minutes and so much tastier than anything you’ll find at the store! Mix up a batch to schmear on bagels or sandwiches, or as a dip for crackers and veggies.
- Prep
- 5 min
- Total
- 5 min
- Yield
- 1 cup
Ingredients 5
- 1 8 ounce package cream cheese, softened
- 3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh chives
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt or ½ tablespoon milk, to soften (optional)
Method 3
- 01
Make sure the cream cheese is softened. Leave it out at room temperature for 1 hour, or place it on a plate in the microwave, cook 5 seconds, flip over the block of cheese and cook another 5 seconds. (If it’s not room temperature at this point, cook another few seconds, but air on the conservative side.)
- 02
Chop the chives. Mix everything together in a bowl, adding a little Greek yogurt, milk or sour cream 1 tablespoon at a time if you’d like a fluffier, more spreadable texture (we used 1 tablespoon Greek yogurt). Store refrigerated for up to 1 week.
- 03
Whipped alternative: Make whipped cream cheese by adding ½ tablespoon milk and whipping the cream cheese in a food processor or stand mixer. Then add the chopped herbs and pulse until combined.
Provenance
- recipe-clones/acouplecooks-data
Fingerprint sha256:4baec859ac4b9cd9b7f3176e8a138e7c2032f7718fc06a1c2db4738f3ce012f8
urn:recipe:cf94c57b-0896-576e-8c38-322cc3ab3bc2