If you aren’t making a true Southerner’s Pimento Cheese dip, you ain’t doing it right. This one is easy but super flavorful. I combine four different cheeses, pimento peppers, creamy mayo, and tons of bomb spices! That thing is popping. That’s why I had to show y’all how to make it, and make it right boos. You can’t trust everybody’s pimento cheese recipe out here.
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Pimento Cheese Ingredients
- Mayonnaise: Try your best to just stick with mayo but if you must swap, sour cream or plain greek yogurt will work in a pinch.
- Diced pimentos (drained): Necessary.
- Grated Vidalia onion: Shallots also work.
- Worcestershire sauce: Soy sauce also works as a swap.
- Seasoned salt: Kosher salt works too if you want less seasoning.
- Black pepper: to balance salt.
- Garlic powder: Minced garlic will also work.
- Cayenne pepper: Optional. Hot sauce also works.
- Shredded Cheeses: Sharp yellow cheddar, medium yellow cheddar, mild white cheddar, and mozzarella.
How to Make Pimento Cheese
- Start your recipe by whisking together your mayonnaise, pimentos, onion, Worcestershire sauce and spices in a medium sized bowl. You are completely in control of how spicy you want this recipe to be. Adding or removing cayenne pepper and pimentos will allow you to customize your spice level the way you like it. Do you boos!
- Next, carefully fold in your cheeses with a spatula.
- Mix until it’s well combined. Refrigerate for at least three hours and then it’s ready to serve up y’all! No sweat fam!
PRO TIP: If you want your pimento cheese spread to be super smooth without texture, just throw the ingredients in a food processor to smooth out to your preference.
Pimento Cheese Recipe
Super Easy Pimento Cheese recipe is filled with flavor! Sharp and creamy cheeses, pimento peppers, and incredible spices mix together with mayo to create the perfect Southern cheese spread!
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Servings: 8 servings
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 4 oz diced pimentos jar drained
- 1 tbsp grated vidalia onion with juice
- 1 tsp worcestershire sauce
- 1/4-1/2 tsp seasoned salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1 cup shredded sharp yellow cheddar (Best if grated with food processor or by hand finely from a block)
- 1 cup shredded medium yellow cheddar (Best if grated with food processor or by hand finely from a block)
- 1/2 cup shredded mild white cheddar (Best if grated with food processor or by hand finely from a block)
- 1/2 cup shredded mozzarella cheese (Best if grated with food processor or by hand finely from a block)
Instructions
- In a medium sized bowl, whisk together mayonnaise, pimentos, onion, Worcestershire sauce, salt, pepper, garlic powder, and cayenne together.
- Next carefully fold in all cheeses with a spatula until well mixed and combined throughout. Add to a container and refrigerate for 3 hours then serve. Use within 1 week.
Notes
Tip: If you’re looking to amplify this recipe, buy your cheeses in whole blocks and grate them finely yourself. Pre-shredded cheeses can sometimes be coated with preservatives that dull the sharpness and prevent flavor from really shining through.
Tip: If you want your pimento cheese to be super smooth without texture, just throw the ingredients in a food processor to smooth out to your preference.
How to Store Southern Pimento Cheese
- Refrigerate: Store any leftover pimento cheese dip in an airtight container in your fridge. It will stay fresh and delish for about a week.
- Freeze: Don’t do it boos! Homemade pimento cheese doesn’t freeze well. The mayo can separate and get all watery when you thaw it. Just eat it fresh and from the fridge.
Nutrition
Calories: 260kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Protein: 11g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 48mg | Sodium: 572mg | Potassium: 40mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 1g | Vitamin A: 434IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 290mg | Iron: 1mg
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Recipe Tips
- Cheese Quality: To really up the quality and flavor of your pimento cheese recipe, buy cheese blocks and grate them yourself. That way you will avoid the preservatives that dull that fantastic flavor.
- Taste and Adjust: Taste as you go along. You can adjust the seasonings to make it based on your preferences or you can even make it creamier by changing the amounts of mayo.
- Don’t Overmix: If you want to keep the textures in there, make sure you don’t keep mixing until it’s totally smooth.
- Let it Rest: After you make your homemade pimento cheese recipe, add to the fridge and let it sit at least a few hours. This will help all those cheeses soften and allow those flavors to come together perfectly before you serve it up.
Recipe Help
Can I make this easy pimento cheese dip ahead of time?
Yep you absolutely can! In fact, it tastes even better if you do. Just pop it in the fridge. It will last for about a week.
What is the best way to drain the pimentos for this pimento cheese recipe
Throw the pimentos in a fine mesh sieve or colander and press with a spoon very gently to get all that liquid out. No sweat!
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Serving Suggestions
- Appetizer: This Southern pimento cheese recipe is so fantastic served along with deviled eggs and tomato tarts y’all. Serve it up with your fave crackers, crostinis, toasted baguette slices and a veggie platter.
- Grilled Cheese: Add pimento cheese to the inside of this Italian beef grilled cheese or pizza grilled cheese. Talk about flavor bombs!
- Fry it Up: Add a bit of this into your batter for hush puppies, corn fritters or fried cornbread.
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Tried it and loved it. I’m a Southern gal and grew up eating Price’s original Pimiento cheese with soft white bunny bread and nothing seems better to me. Thanks for such a fun blog and website. LOVE IT and have saved some recipes to try. I take care of my 91 year old Momma and cook for her. So I bet she will love everything.
Wonderful recipe! After reading many pimiento cheese recipes, I had decided to mix all the ingredients except the cheddar cheese, then stir in the cheese. Here you have recommended just that! And your idea of using mozarella cheese instead of cream cheese was exactly what I was searching for – I didn’t come up with that idea myself, and I am so excited that I found it with you! Thanks for a fabulous recipe.
Can’t wait to try this…!!!
This was so yummy. My husband planted some pimento peppers for me this year and we finally were able to pick a few so I googled this recipe. I only had sharp cheddar and mozzarella and it still came out great. I also added about 2 tablespoons of diced jalapeño. Will definitely put this on summer rotation.
I made deviled eggs with it, was the perfect filling!!
Oh that is so genius!
I added a little jalapeno pepper minced. It was soooo much better the next day!! The thanksgiving crowd was crazy about it and I shared the recipe!! Thanks!! My go to pimento cheese recipe from now on!!
Thanks so much for posting this can’t wait to try it! You posted the nutritional info how much pimento cheese would you get for that? Thanks in advance!
About 4-5 servings. I hope you enjoy.