Southern

Cheese Grits

Name: Cheese Grits
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Southern
Ingredients: 1 cup stone-ground grits; 2 cups milk; 2 cups water; 3 tbsp butter; 1.5 cups, shredded sharp cheddar; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Tamika @tamika_clt

Cheese Grits is Southern home cooking, eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the carb everything else is eaten with. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Easy Vegetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 cup stone-ground grits
2 cups milk
2 cups water
3 tbsp butter
1.5 cups, shredded sharp cheddar
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Bring the water, milk, and a pinch of salt to a boil in a saucepan.
Whisk in the grits in a steady stream, then reduce heat to low.
Cook, whisking often, until thick and creamy, about 20 to 25 minutes for stone-ground grits.
Stir in the butter and cheddar until melted and smooth.
Season with salt and pepper and serve hot.

Watch how to cook Cheese Grits

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Serve it with

A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Cheese Grits, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Fried Okra
  
  25 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Cheese Grits carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Cheese Grits
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	BBQ Chicken Drumsticks
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 440 kcal
Protein: 16 g
Carbs: 36 g
Fat: 26 g
Fiber: 2 g
Sugar: 4 g
Sodium: 640 mg
Saturated fat: 15 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Cheese Grits takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.