The Barefoot Contessa’s Spicy Pimento Cheese Recipe Has Attitude | Sandwiches | 30Seconds Food

I grew up eating pimento cheese sandwiches. But my pimento cheese came in a tub from the grocery store. I didn’t experience homemade pimento cheese until I made it myself as an adult. The different between store-bought pimento cheese and homemade cannot even be put into words. When I saw Ina Garten’s (aka The Barefoot Contessa) pimento cheese recipe I knew I had to try it ASAP. The celebrity chef makes her pimento cheese spicy and it is super creamy. Count me in. The pimento cheese cheese recipe is made with cream cheese (hello, creaminess), mayonnaise, garlic powder, onion powder, pickled jalapenos, piquillo pepper or regular pimentos, shredded cheddar cheese and sriracha. Ina also uses celery seed in her recipe, which I’m not a big fan of, so I omitted it. The ingredients are mixed together and chilled until to be devoured. Piquillo peppers are a sweet pepper that has almost no heat. They are traditionally grown in Northern Spain near the town of Lodosa. Piquillo peppers can be found in many grocery stores in jars and in cans. If you can’t find them, buy a jar of regular pimentos which are readily available at most stores. If you want to add sweetness instead of heat, use candied jalapenos and omit the sriracha. This recipe could be cut in half (it makes a lot).  Pimento cheese can be eaten in so many ways. You can serve it as a spread for crackers, as a dip for raw vegetables like carrots and celery, as a sandwich filling (aka the icon pimento cheese sandwich), stuffed in celery sticks, mixed into deviled eggs, as a filling for quesadillas, stirred into macaroni and cheese, as the filling for tortilla pinwheels or stirred into grits. I’ve made pimento cheese-stuffed fried chicken breasts, crispy fried pimento cheese balls and creamy pimento cheese rice. How do you like to eat pimento cheese? Cuisine: American Prep Time: 10 minutes Cook Time: 0 minutes Total Time: 10 minutes Servings: Makes about 1 quart  Ingredients Here’s how to make it:  Note: we may occasionally reference products based on a contributor’s personal opinion. But 30Seconds is not affiliated or in no way endorses or makes any warranties about specific products. However, 30Seconds is a participant in the Amazon affiliate advertising program and this post contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission or fees if you make a purchase via those links. Recipe cooking times and servings are approximate. Need to convert cooking and baking measurements? Here are some . Here’s . Take 30 seconds and , and to get recipes in your newsfeed daily. Related Products on Amazon We Think You May Like: 30Second Mobile, Inc. is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.