My Favorite Pimiento Cheese

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    3

    cups
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      4 hr 30

Appears in
My Southern Kitchen: From Suppers to Celebrations, Recipes for Every Occasion

By Ivy Odom

Published 2025

  • About

There are so many ways to customize pimiento cheese. The endless options for stir-ins and types of cheeses are daunting but always delicious. For me, there are a few essential ingredients I love to incorporate into every pimiento cheese:

Number one: Duke’s mayonnaise, always.

Number two: Worcestershire sauce for depth of flavor.

Number three: freshly grated Vidalia or sweet onion.

After that, everything else is up to interpretation. The pimiento cheese world