Grits Cakes With Creamy Mushrooms and Country Ham

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It's casual to improvise with acold grits, arsenic Paula Deen showed america successful the Post kitchen. When she was increasing up, her household cooks utilized to refrigerate leftover grits successful a jar, past pry retired the congealed contents successful 1 piece, chopped it into inch-thick slices and toast it successful the oven until crisp connected some sides.

This could beryllium a broadside crockery for roast chickenhearted oregon steak; the look tin beryllium doubled oregon quadrupled. The grits cakes are crisp connected the extracurricular and creamy connected the inside. The bits of state ham supply each the brackish you'll request for the creamy mushroom-ham sauce.

From Paula Deen.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 1 1 serving (makes 2 cakes)

For the grits cakes

1 1/2 cups cooked, chilled grits
Pinch salt
1 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 tablespoonful to 2 tablespoons flour
1 ample egg
3 tablespoons to 4 tablespoons canola oil

For the sauce

1 tablespoonful olive oil
1 tablespoonful salted butter
1/4 cupful finely chopped onion
1/4 spoon crushed thyme
2 tablespoons achromatic wine
1 cupful thinly sliced shiitake mushrooms (may substitute coarsely chopped portobello mushroom caps)
1/4 cupful chopped uncooked state ham, specified arsenic Smithfield brand
1/4 cupful to 1/3 cupful dense cream
1/4 spoon freshly crushed achromatic pepper, oregon to taste
Parsley oregon chopped chives, for garnish

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
762
Fat
40 g
Saturated Fat
12 g
Carbohydrates
65 g
Sodium
1982 mg
Cholesterol
281 mg
Protein
31 g
Fiber
2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Paula Deen.

Tested by Paula Deen.

Published March 12, 2026