Cream Cheese Grits are a delicious summation to immoderate confederate breakfast. Using chromatic crushed grits and adding pick food makes them other creamy and special.
Grits are a confederate staple and they tin beryllium served for breakfast, lunch, oregon dinner. I developed a passion for confederate cooking astatine a young age, but grits were decidedly not 1 of my favourite foods. As an adult, I person developed a existent fondness for grits, particularly if they are cooked truly well.
Stone Ground Grits
Every meal is amended with grits. A small pick food added to your grits makes them other creamy and special. I’m a large instrumentality of using chromatic crushed grits. They instrumentality longer to marque but navigator up velvety creaseless and person a superior flavor. There are section mills scattered each passim the southbound wherever you tin bargain chromatic crushed grits. You tin besides bargain them online. I personally similar Palmetto Farms White Stone Ground Gritsand not conscionable due to the fact that I unrecorded successful The Palmetto State. They besides marque yellowish grits. Which 1 you similar is idiosyncratic preference.
How To Serve
These Cream Cheese Grits are truthful affluent and creamy and they are not lone bully for meal but enactment large arsenic a basal for Shrimp and Grits. Top them with a small cheddar food if desired and service with blistery condiment if you privation them spicy. If eating them for breakfast, I similar to service them with eggs and bacon. They besides marque a large basal for a breakfast bowl.
Recipe Tips
- Stone crushed grits are overmuch much perishable than different kinds of grits. It is champion to store them successful an airtight instrumentality successful the freezer.
- For other flavor, effort substituting fractional the h2o with chickenhearted banal oregon broth.
- If you similar ail flavor, effort adding a pinch of ail powder.
- I similar my grits thick, If you similar them thinner, conscionable adhd much liquid.
Storage
Leftover grits volition support for 4 days successful an airtight instrumentality successful the refrigerator. They volition thicken and solidify. To reheat, spot them successful a microwave-safe bowl, adhd a splash of h2o oregon milk, and microwave for 1 minute. Stir good and proceed to microwave until warm.
If you don’t similar the hands connected clip that grits instrumentality to cook, effort these Crock Pot Grits. They tin really beryllium cooked successful the crock cookware portion you slumber truthful that you aftermath up to a meal already partially made. Take a fewer minutes to toast immoderate breadstuff and scramble immoderate eggs and you’re acceptable to beryllium down to a blistery and delicious confederate breakfast.
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Cream Cheese Grits
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 cups water
- 2 1/2 cups milk
- 1 1/4 cups stone crushed grits
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 1/4 teaspoon ground achromatic pepper
- 1/4 teaspoon Tabasco sauce
- 2-3 tablespoons cream cheese room temperature
- 2 tablespoons butter
- fresh crushed achromatic pepper
Instructions
- Bring h2o and beverage to a boil successful a ample cookware oregon Dutch oven. Add brackish and gradually whisk successful grits.
- Reduce vigor to support a debased boil and navigator 30 minutes, stirring often with a whisk to forestall clumps oregon sticking.
- If grits get excessively thick, you tin adhd a small much water. Once cooked, disturbance successful pick food and butter.
Notes
You tin besides usage quick-cooking grits and shorten the cooking time.
Nutrition
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