Deli Rye Bagel-Counter Schmear

Now serving: your bagels. One block of cream cheese plus one tablespoon of Deli Rye, and your kitchen smells like the deli on a Sunday morning.

Serves: 4 · Prep: 10 min · Cook: 3 min · Total: 13 min

Ingredients

• 8 oz cream cheese, softened
• 1 Tbsp Deli Rye Pepper
• 1 Tbsp chopped fresh chives
• 1 Tbsp milk
• 4 bagels, split and toasted
• Optional toppings: sliced tomato, cucumber, thin red onion

Steps

1. Beat the cream cheese, Deli Rye, chives and milk with a spoon or hand mixer until fluffy.
2. Let it sit 5 minutes so the caraway and onion can wake up.
3. Spread thick on toasted bagels and top with tomato, cucumber or red onion if you like.
4. Keep leftovers covered in the fridge up to 5 days.

A word on salt

No added salt. Deli Rye has flaky salt in the blend, and cream cheese brings its own.

Swap it

Come springtime, stir in Garden Herb Pepper for a garden-herb schmear, plus a pinch of salt.

Deli Rye contains sesame.

Photo: Fernanda Martinez on Unsplash