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Recipe: Pimento Cheese Fritters with Green Tomato Jam

Anna Mowry

Daniel Doyle's recipe for Pimento Cheese Fritters with Green Tomato Jam, adpated by the James Beard Foundation

Daniel Doyle's recipe for Pimento Cheese Fritters with Green Tomato Jam, adpated by the James Beard Foundation

Anna Mowry

Mon, May 16, 2016

We used to think that plastering pimento cheese …

We used to think that plastering pimento cheese over the nooks and crannies of a cracker was as good as it gets. But Daniel Doyle of Charleston's Poogan's Porch has given this beloved Southern condiment a greater purpose, packaging it inside addictive, gumball-sized fritters. “Pimento cheese is inherently Southern, so why not make it the focus of a dish?” he says. “Why not a fritter?”

Who are we to argue? Get the recipe here.