Description
Ingredients
- formatted by lisa crawford
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 cup finely minced Onion
- 8 oz cream cheese
- 1 lbs cottage cheese
- 1 cup ground almonds and walnuts
- -combined
- 1/2 tsp salt
- lots of black pepper
- 1/2 tsp dill
- 2 tsp prepared mustard
- 2 to 3ts fresh lime or lemon
- -juice
- 2 cup grated Cheddar
- for topping
- 1 cup ricotta
- a few walnuts halves, whole
- -almonds and whole or
- -chopped olives
- radishes, cucumber slices
- -and parsley sprigs
Directions
Prehaet oven to 325 °F. Grease a standard loaf pan with 2 tablespoons of the butter. Saute onions in the remaining butter until soft, about 4 minutes. Combine the cream cheese, cottage cheese, ground nuts, salt, pepper, dill, mustard, lime juice, and Cheddar in a food processor until uniform. Spoon into the prepared pan and bake 1 hour. Allow to cool completely in pan then chill for at least several hours before turning onto a seving platter. To decorate, spread ricotta cheee all over as if frosting a cake. Place garnish over cake as desired. Serve with dark bread or crackers. Nutritional info per serving: 481 cal; 24g pro, 9g carb, 40g fat(73%), 2g fiber, 97 mg chol, 731 mg sodium