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Cheddar Grits with Fried Eggs

Slow-stirred corn grits loosened with butter and cheddar, a fried egg set on top.

Cheddar Grits with Fried Eggs, plated and ready to serve
Serves
4
Total time
30 min
Cost per serving (United States)
$7.87

Ingredients

  • 1 1/4 cup yellow cornmeal
  • 2 cup whole milk
  • 3 cup chicken broth
  • 6 oz shredded cheddar cheese
  • 4 tbsp unsalted butter
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 1/2 tsp kosher salt
  • 3/4 tsp ground black pepper
  • 4 tsp hot sauce (louisiana style)(optional)
  • 1 bunch green onions / scallions(optional)

Method

  1. Bring the broth and milk to a simmer with the salt.

  2. Pour the cornmeal in slowly while whisking hard, so no lumps form.

  3. Drop the heat to low and cook 20 minutes, stirring every few minutes and scraping the bottom. Add hot water if it stiffens before it tastes tender.

  4. Beat in the butter and cheddar off the heat until glossy and pourable.

  5. Fry the eggs to your liking in a separate pan.

  6. Spoon the grits into bowls, top each with an egg, and finish with black pepper, scallions, and hot sauce.

What this costs, country by country

Each figure is the ingredients for the full recipe at prices read in that country’s own shops, in its own currency. Nothing here is converted from dollars.

The cost of this recipe in 11 countries, each in its own currency, with how many of the 8 ingredients we could price in each. Figures are not converted between currencies, so the rows cannot be ranked against each other.
CountryWhole recipePer servingPriced from
United Kingdom£39.11£9.788 of 8 ingredients
Australia$62.44$15.618 of 8 ingredients
New Zealand$87.44$21.868 of 8 ingredients
Canada$102.44$25.618 of 8 ingredients
Spain24,42 €6,11 €8 of 8 ingredients
United States$31.47$7.877 of 8 ingredients
Greece31,20 €7,80 €7 of 8 ingredients
Egypt‏٩٥٣٫٧٥ ج.م.‏‏٢٣٨٫٤٤ ج.م.‏7 of 8 ingredients
Mexico$692.56$173.147 of 8 ingredients
Germany18,83 €*4,71 €5 of 8 ingredients
Austria€ 25,05*€ 6,264 of 8 ingredients

* We have read fewer than seven in ten of these ingredients in that country, so the total is a partial figure and the real one is higher.

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