Name: Everything Schmear
Ingredients: ½ small onion, coarsely chopped; 1 large clove garlic, sliced; 1 scallion, mostly white, sliced coarsely; 2 tsp toasted sesame seeds; 2 tsp poppy seeds; 1 tsp nigella seeds, aka charnushka - optional but very, very good; ½ tsp kosher salt; 8 oz cream cheese

CategorySpreads

A schmear version of the Everything Bagel.

Yields1 Serving

Ingredients

½ small onion, coarsely chopped

1 large clove garlic, sliced

1 scallion, mostly white, sliced coarsely

2 tsp toasted sesame seeds

2 tsp poppy seeds

1 tsp nigella seeds, aka charnushka - optional but very, very good

½ tsp kosher salt

8 oz cream cheese

Dry-roast the onions in a non-stick pan over medium high heat (use no oil) about 8 minutes, or until they are brown in spots. Add the rest of the ingredients to the pan (except for the cream cheese!), stir once or twice, and immediately remove from heat.

Add the cream cheese, in thumbtip-sized chunks, to the bowl of a food processor. Scrape in the onion and seed mixture and pulse 10 or 12 times, scraping down with a rubber spatula as needed. Do not overprocess; you want some oniony chunks. This is gorgeous overkill on an everything bagel.