Pimento Cheese With Twice-Baked Crackers

  • Side Dish
  • Difficulty: Easy
Pimento cheese flavored with Morton Fine Sea Salt, spread on savory crackers is the perfect appetizer or snack. Morton Fine Sea Salt is perfect for precision and control, allowing you to accurately salt the pimento cheese. Using unsalted crackers and Morton Coarse Sea Salt as topping, it allows the salt level to provide a clean sea salt taste.

Ingredients

  • 8 oz. Aged cheddar cheese, aged & shredded
  • 1⁄4 cup Mascarpone cheese
  • 1⁄4 cup Mayonnaise
  • 4 oz. Jar of diced pimento peppers, drained
  • 1⁄2 tsp. Morton Fine Sea Salt
  • 1 tsp. Smoked paprika

MORTON®
FINE SEA SALT

  1. Place all ingredients into a mixing bowl.

  2. Mix pimento cheese until smooth and enjoy!

Twice-baked crackers are a perfect vessel for the pimento cheese.

Ingredients: 

  • 1 Sleeve saltine crackers– unsalted preferred
  • 1 Tbsp. Morton coarse sea salt
  • 1⁄4 cup Butter

Directions: 

  1. Heat oven to 350 ̊ F.
  2. As the oven is preheating, melt butter in small saucepan over medium heat.
  3. Working in batches, dip crackers in butter and lay on a single layer on sheet tray.
  4. Sprinkle the tops with Morton coarse sea salt.
  5. Place in the oven and bake for 6 minutes.
  6. Serve immediately or wrap and keep for up to 3 days.