Tested 3/10/2022
Taste: ❤❤❤❤❤
Difficulty: ❤🤍🤍🤍🤍
This particular combination is, to me, a perfect blend of flavors. Olive oil and herbs give the basic cheese-and-grits mixture some Italian flair, which can serve as a base for other spicy or high-flavor main-dish proteins (think shrimp scampi, sliced chicken cutlets, etc.). Over-easy fried eggs are my favorite with this, though, because the liquid egg yolk adds a decadent silky texture on top of the creamy grits. And doused with a bit of Cholula – mmmmm… just perfect!
Ingredients
1/4 cup grits
1/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 Tbsp butter, plus extra to fry eggs
2 eggs
Cholula hot sauce
Italian herb blend
Salt & freshly ground pepper to taste
Instructions
Prepare the grits according to package directions. (I add 1 cup water to the 1/4 cup grits and microwave. Quick-cooking grits take approximately 3-4 minutes, otherwise, it’s a longer 7-minute wait).
Add butter to grits, season with salt and (liberal amounts of) pepper, and gently stir in cheese. Let stand while preparing eggs.
Melt enough butter in frying pan to cook eggs. Over medium-high heat, fry eggs over-easy. Make sure not to overcook because you want the yolk to stay liquid.
Carefully slide eggs on top of grits. Drizzle olive oil around border of eggs onto grits.
Add more S&P on top of eggs, sprinkle with herb blend, and drizzle liberally with Cholula hot sauce.
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