Pimento Cheese is one of my favorite southern foods and I love to make it for summer entertaining. This Tex-Mex Pimento Cheese is a fun twist on traditional pimento cheese. Serve it chilled with crackers or tortilla chips.

Ingredients

Made with jalapeno pepper, lime juice, pepper jack cheese, plus a little garlic powder, cumin, and chili powder, it has a little more flavor than traditional pimento cheese.

How To Serve

Tex-Mex Pimento Cheese would be delicious as a burger topping like these Pimento Cheese Burgers. You could also use it to make a pizza. Also great with tortilla chips, Club crackers, or Frito scoops. Turn it into a sandwich by spreading it between two pieces of white bread.

What Is Pimento Cheese"
If you’re not familiar with pimento cheese, aka the Pate of the South, it is super simple and basic. Usually just a mixture of shredded cheddar cheese, mayonnaise, and chopped pimentos. Sometimes you see cream cheese used. The most popular way to eat it is as a sandwich between two pieces of squishy white bread, but there are all kinds of ways you can eat it. I love pimento cheese stuffed inside a ripe summer tomato.

Recipe Tips

You will definitely want to shred your own cheese instead of buying preshredded. It will have much better flavor.

I like to use sharp cheddar cheese for more flavor.

If you want it extra spicy, add a pinch of cayenne pepper.

Use a good quality mayonnaise. I like Duke’s or Hell...