![]() Don’t over process the pimento cheese.Leave out the ham for a simple pimento cheese sandwich.Add in hot sauce or cayenne pepper for extra heat.Just keep in mind, frozen or canned biscuits are bigger, so you’ll get less. If you don’t want to make your own biscuits, you can buy store-bought.Substitutions and Tips and Tricks for Recipe Success I like to pop them in the oven just before serving to crisp them up a bit. ![]() The biscuits can also be made up to a day in advance. Just be sure when you go to assemble, you set it out to come to room temperature. Yes! You can make the pimento cheese up to three days in advance. They are outrageously delicious this way. Top with a piece of ham and then spread more pimento cheese on the top piece of the biscuit.īecause I was serving these at a baby shower, I left them at room temperature, but I also love to heat them up in the oven just before serving so the cheese gets all melty. Season to taste with salt, pepper, and hot sauce if you want.Īssemble! After the biscuits cool, split them in half and spread the pimento cheese on the bottom of each biscuit. To keep the pimentos somewhat in tact, I processed the cheese, cream cheese, mustard, and spices together first, then added in the pimentos at the last minute. Most versions just have you mix the ingredients for the pimento cheese with a hand mixer or in a stand mixer, but I wanted it to be more of a spread, so I whipped everything up in the food processor to blend it a little bit better. One trick both Sally and I do for rolling out biscuits, is overlapping the dough over itself several times to create really nice tall layers. While these pimento cheese sandwiches are really delicious with simply pimento cheese and the biscuit, I like to layer in a slice of good quality ham. This adds a really nice tang to the pimento cheese sandwich, plus a teeny bit of spice. As we mentioned before, if you want to up the spice level, add in a dash or two of hot sauce or cayenne pepper.ĭijon mustard. I use pretty standard spices here – onion powder and garlic powder. I find that low-fat (NOT fat free) cream cheese tastes really similar to the full-fat version so that’s what we use. To get that creamy texture we all love so much about pimento cheese, we use softened cream cheese. Make sure to get a really good quality extra-sharp cheddar cheese. If you have your own biscuit recipe you love, you can use that as well.Ĭheddar cheese. It’s a great basic biscuit recipe that’s flaky, light and oh-so delicious. Our Pimento Cheese Sandwich is actually an older recipe we are updating, so even though we have plenty of our own biscuits recipes in the archives, we went with this biscuit recipe ages ago. Ingredients in Ham and Pimento Cheese Sandwichesīiscuits. While our version isn’t spicy, add a few shakes of hot sauce or cayenne pepper to give it a little bit of heat. Because of their miniature size, they’re perfect for a party, and have built-in portion control that allows even a person who’s watching their weight to join in on the action. ![]() ![]() As a food blogger, I’m obviously guilty of glorifying the trend of more is more, but even I know when to hold back, thus is the case with today’s Ham and Pimento Cheese Sandwich.Ĭlassic pimento cheese – my way – is smothered on homemade buttermilk biscuits, topped with smoked ham and served either room temperature or slightly warm from the oven. In a world where we put bacon on doughnuts and cheeseburger sliders on bloody marys, sometimes it’s nice to stick to the basics – classics done right with minimal alterations. I love southern food for its indulgent qualities, yes, but I also love it just as much for its simplicity. I think I was secretly born in the south, because if I had my choice, I could live off a diet of crispy fried chicken, sweet cornbread, shrimp and grits and mile-high buttermilk biscuits for an eternity, but really, who couldn’t? The perfect bridal shower, lunch or side to soup or salad. We take our favorite biscuit recipe that’s light, flaky, and oh-so delicious and smother the inside with warm pimento cheese and ham. These Ham & Pimento Cheese Sandwiches are simple, but bursting with flavor. ![]()
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