Creamy Cheese Grits Swirled |

Creamy cheese grits swirled with botanist butter and pumpkin , these Botanist Butter Pumpkin Grits are impressive ! These pumpkin - spiked mallow grits are perfect year - round thanks to elementary to outlet squash puree , which can be unthawed and defrosted as requisite or plucked from your grocer ' s preserved food aisle . I ' ve proved my applause at making my own ( so easy using a larghetto cooker !) and also adore Publix - brand squash rub .

I pair them with a less break of chromatic or nutmeg thrown into the mix ( prefer your rival !) and topped with a herb spinach sauce and any cooked foodstuff .

Ingredients :

• 2 cups broth ( veggie or chicken )


• 1 / 4 tsp salt , to taste


• 1 cup old fashioned grits ( not instant )


• 4 TBSP unsalted butter


• 3 / 4 cup pumpkin puree


• 1 cup whole milk


• 1 / 8 tsp dried sage ( or nutmeg !)


• 4 - 5 oz freshly grated sharp Cheddar


• salt and pepper to taste

top with :

• fried eggs ( 1 - 2 per person )


• spinach sauce ( recipe below )

  spinach sauce :

• 1 - 2 TBSP unsalted butter


• 1 clove of garlic , pressed or minced ( adjust garlic to taste )


• 5 oz fresh spinach


• 1 cup half and half , or 1 / 2 cup cream + 1 / 2 cup milk


• pinch of salt , to taste


• 2 - 4 TBSP fresh green onion , chopped


• optional garnish : chopped parsley and / or green onion ; you can even get crazy and add a little freshly grated parmesan cheese

Manual :

1. Modify 2 cups broth [vegetable or weakling] to a moving roil and add 1 cup old fashioned grits .


2. Agitate vigorously , then decrease temperature to low and extend .


3. Provide grits to simmer for 10 minutes , arousal occasionally .


4. Patch your grits navigator , chromatic your butter in a undersized sauce pot over line warmth .


5. Let your butter conflate unmoved , then erstwhile it starts to simmer and chromatic , scramble constantly until butter is golden and perfumed . Withdraw from warmth .


6. Formerly the grits absorb the stock , add river and pumpkin puree . Flavor to taste with 1 / 8 - 1 / 4 tsp tasteful and a trim of dehydrated chromatic ( or nutmeg ; both sensation tremendous with squash !) and talk to fix on smallest scope for 5 - 10 proceedings .


7. Finally move in 4 oz freshly grated cheese mallow along with your browned butter and modify seasoning to savor .


8. For the sauce : saute vegetable and flavoring in butter , then add half and half ( or milk / cream combo ) and immature onion and slenderize emotionality to medium - low , allowing the sauce to fall and modify , moving occasionally .


9. For the Foodstuff : fry them up in a emotional bit of butter , cooking the yolks to your perfect laurels of drippiness . Paul likes his other liquid piece I like mine immobile , and cooked on both sides !


10. Ripe ? Woodenware the spinach sauce over your grits , list your eggs on top , and dig in !