Q: What do you call cheese that doesn’t belong to you?
A: Nacho cheese!
The good news (after that bad joke) is that the mouth-watering melted cheese in this recipe for Epic Nacho is all yours — unless you choose to share with your lucky buddies.
Even better, shredded Cheddar and Monterey Jack are just the beginning. This gooey goodness fuses together a feast of delicious, healthy ingredients such as tangy guacamole, juicy chipotle chicken, lip-smacking salsa, creamy Greek yogurt, zesty jalapeño peppers…in short, your buddies will be blown away when you pull this snack-stravaganza from the oven during the Grey Cup playoffs!
Last but not least, these Epic Nachos are so easy to prepare — just chop and LOAD up the baking sheet!
Epic Game Day Nachos
Servings
4 Servings
Cooking Time
20 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 large bag of unsalted corn tortilla chips
- 1 large package of pre-shredded Mexican cheese (usually a blend of Cheddar and Monterey Jack)
- 1 small jar or tin of chopped Jalapeño peppers
- 1 small jar or tin of chopped black or green olives
- 1 medium-sized tub of Greek yogurt
- 1 red onion
- 1 green pepper
- 1 tomato
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1 tablespoon of cooking oil
- 2 tablespoons of chipotle chili powder
- 1 large jar of salsa
- 1 large tub of guacamole
Instructions
- Warm the cooking oil in a pan on the stove. Cook the chicken breasts on medium heat, turning often, for about 10 minutes. Sprinkle the chicken with chipotle chili powder every time you turn it.
- Using a cutting board, pull the cooked chicken into shredded pieces using a fork. Set the chicken-covered board aside when you’re done.
- Evenly spread HALF the tortilla chips on a large baking sheet, and cover them evenly with half the cheese. Bake in a 300-degree oven for a couple minutes, or until the cheese has melted.
- Chop the red onion, green pepper, and tomato into dime-sized chunks, dump the Jalapeño peppers and olives into a strainer, and cover the chips and melted cheese with HALF the peppers, olives, onion, and chicken. Why only half? All will be revealed…
- Pour the OTHER HALF of the tortilla chips on top of everything, and repeat Steps 3 and 4 with the remaining cheese, peppers, tomatoes, olives, onion, and chicken. That way, the toppings are spread evenly throughout the nachos. Sneaky, but SO effective!
- Put the whole shebang in the oven for another 5 minutes.
- Remove your Epic Nachos from the oven, let everyone admire their true epicness, let them cool for a couple minutes, and then serve them with man-sized bowls of salsa, guacamole and Greek yogurt for dipping. You are now officially THE MAN!
The #YearOfEpicFood!
If there was ever any doubt, these Epic Nachos highlight the fact that 2019 is the #YearOfEpicFood. (Well played, Kristina Costabile, well played…)
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