Beef And Green Onion Cheese Ball

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 16 ounces cream cheese
• 1 (2 1/2 ounce) jar dried beef (located on the canned meat aisle in the grocery store)
• 5 -6 green onions (they usually come bundled with this approximate amount so i just use the whole bundle)
• 1 1/4 cups pecans, finely chopped

Recipe

• 1 soften the cream cheese to room temperature.
• 2 use your food processor to finely mince the dried beef.
• 3 use your food processor to finely mince the green onions ( bulb and green stalks together).
• 4 add the beef, the onions and 1/4 cup of pecans to the cream cheese and mix well.
• 5 form into a ball.
• 6 roll in remaining chopped pecans.
• 7 refrigerate for at least one hour (but it's even better if you make it the night before and let the flavors blend).
• 8 note: i've also made this by making the cheese mixture and adding 1/2 cup pecans instead of 1/4, then used it to stuff celery sticks. that was a hit too!