Pimiento Cheese Muffins
| Serves | 12 |
|---|---|
| Ingredients | Cheese |
Chef Jennifer O’Brien
Marriott International
Bethesda, Md.
These savory muffins make a tasty sidekick to a salad, breakfast omelet or fried chicken plate. To achieve the desired flavor and texture, Chef Jennifer O’Brien of Marriott International specifies Price’s Original Pimiento Cheese Spread for the recipe.
Ingredients
2½ cups all-purpose flour
4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. kosher salt
½ cup buttermilk
1 egg
2¾ oz. grated yellow onion
4 oz. (1/2 cup) butter, melted
12 oz. Price’s Original Pimiento Cheese Spread
1 oz. sliced green onion tops
2 ½ oz. breakfast sausage, crumbled and browned
1 1/3 cups shredded cheddar cheese
Steps
- Preheat oven to 350 F. In large bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together buttermilk, egg, and onion.
- Pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients and mix until just combined. Fold in melted butter, pimiento cheese, green onion tops and sausage until well combined.
- Spray muffin tins with nonstick cooking spray. Portion batter with a scoop into muffin tins. Top each scoop with shredded cheddar.
- Bake muffins until a cake tester inserted in center comes out clean (12 to 15 minutes for small muffins; 20 to 25 minutes for large muffins). Broil briefly to brown cheese if needed. Serve muffins warm with butter.
Photo courtesy of Bel Brands