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Do you hear jazz? That might just be the excitement coming from your taste buds as you scoop up a cracker full of this French Quarter Spread! Sweet, crunchy, toasted pecans are coated in a deliciously savory and smoky butter sauce, then spooned atop onion-and-garlic-infused cream cheese. It's a hint of Cajun cooking that is ready for snacking! French Quarter Spread brings the Mardi Gras feeling to your kitchen!
Do you hear jazz? That might just be the excitement coming from your taste buds as you scoop up a cracker full of this French Quarter Spread! Sweet, crunchy, toasted pecans are coated in a deliciously savory and smoky butter sauce, then spooned atop onion-and-garlic-infused cream cheese. It's a hint of Cajun cooking that is ready for snacking! French Quarter Spread brings the Mardi Gras feeling to your kitchen!
Ingredients
- 1 cup pecans
- 1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese softened
- 2 teaspoons onion grated or very finely minced
- 1 teaspoon garlic minced
- 1/2 stick butter cut into pieces
- 1/4 cup light brown sugar packed
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1/4 teaspoon dried mustard
- cayenne pepper to taste
- crackers to taste, for serving
Directions
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.
- On a baking sheet, add the pecans and spread them out evenly.
- Toast the pecans in the oven until they are golden and fragrant, about 6-8 minutes. Set the toasted pecans aside.
- In a medium bowl, add the cream cheese, the onions, and the garlic and mix to combine.
- Gently shape the cream cheese mixture into a disc, then wrap it in plastic wrap.
- Refrigerate the wrapped cream cheese disc for at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
- In a saucepan over medium-low heat, melt the butter.
- Add the brown sugar, the Worcestershire sauce, the dried mustard, and the cayenne pepper to the melted butter and cook, while stirring often, until the brown sugar is dissolved.
- Add the toasted pecans to the butter mixture and stir to combine.
- Allow the pecan mixture to cool slightly.
- Transfer the cream cheese disc from the refrigerator and unwrap it.
- On a rimmed plate, add the cream cheese disc.
- Spoon the pecan mixture over the cream cheese disc.
- Serve with the crackers.
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