Pick your favorite cracker of bread and slather this spread on thick. It’s pretty simple to make and you can store the rest until for use.
How To Make Quick-Layered Pesto Spread
We've combined plain cream cheese and basil pesto sauce to make this fresh and homemade pesto spread for all your favorite slices of bread and crackers.
Prep:
15 mins
Cook:
10 mins
Total:
25 mins
Ingredients
- 8 oz plain cream cheese, softened
- 8 oz basil pesto sauce in oil, or homemade if you're feeling ambitious
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 medium tomatoes, diced (plum tomatoes are best for this)
Instructions
- Spread softened cream cheese over entire bottom of a shallow serving platter or pie plate.
- Evenly spread pesto sauce over the cream cheese.
- Sprinkle garlic over pesto and top with the chopped tomato.
- Place a spreader or small spoon in the dish for topping on toasted French bread, crackers, toasted bagels, pita chips or packaged cocktail rye bread.
Nutrition
- Sugar: 5g
- :
- Calcium: 156mg
- Calories: 427kcal
- Carbohydrates: 10g
- Cholesterol: 67mg
- Fat: 41g
- Fiber: 2g
- Iron: 1mg
- Potassium: 224mg
- Protein: 7g
- Saturated Fat: 15g
- Sodium: 715mg
- Vitamin A: 2417IU
- Vitamin C: 9mg
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