This interesting Mexican treat is often served as an addition to cold / warm salads. It is also delicious to try it with all kinds of sauces and dressings. You can serve nachos chips and as an unusual snack to the foam.

Chips "Nachos" ("Nachos"): composition and calorie content

The exact composition of the chips will vary depending on the method of preparation and the selected additives. The most natural and safe it turns out at home treats. As for the finished product from the store, often in its composition there are a lot of flavors, dyes, preservatives and other unwholesome additives. Sometimes a producer even instead of a mixture of peppers adds only a “chemical” flavor from them.

A quality product usually only includes cornmeal, vegetable oil, salt and water. Various aromatic herbs and spices can also be added to taste. For example, chopped chili.

The caloric value of the classic version of the chips discussed was high. It is 497 kcal per 100 g of product. Therefore, do not get carried away with such a treat so as not to harm the figure.

What do Nachos chips eat with?

Unlike regular chips, nachos are rarely eaten without sauces and gravy.

You can also serve them warm, preheating in the oven, for example, with meat paste.

  • If there is no time for a long preparation of beer supplements, it will be enough to use cheese sauce. You can take it ready or make it yourself from cheese, cream, garlic and pepper.
  • Perfectly complement nachos and sour cream and garlic sauce. In the latter, you can add a few small cubes of pickled cucumbers.
  • If you need a more satisfying addition to Mexican chips, you can cook meat pasta or gravy with tomatoes, mushrooms, beans. Its basis is delicious to make both whole meat slices and minced meat.
  • You can just lay on the nachos all kinds of fillings. For example, chopped olives / olives, pickled / salted vegetables, any kind of meat, smoked or salted fish.
  • Sometimes nachos becomes the basis of a pie or pizza instead of dough. Then the chips are poured over the sauce, covered with filling and filled with chopped cheese.

Classic Cornmeal Recipe

If you strictly follow this recipe, the output will be able to get approximately 270 - 300 g of prepared Mexican snacks. The composition of spices can be adjusted to your liking.

Ingredients:

  • cornmeal - 120 g;
  • wheat flour - 100 g;
  • olive oil - 30 ml;
  • warm milk - 2/3 st .;
  • salt - 1 teaspoon;
  • sugar - half a spoon;
  • curry, paprika, chili powder - in a teaspoon.

Cooking:

  1. Immediately turn on the oven to heat up.
  2. Mix all the spices. Try them out. It should turn out to be a culinary taste that is sharp to the taste.
  3. Mix two types of flour. Pour oil on them. Shuffle the components.
  4. Pouring milk, knead the dough. It should become soft and non-sticky.
  5. In the process of mixing add a mixture of spices.
  6. Roll the resulting mass very thinly and cut into triangles.
  7. Lay the blanks on a baking sheet with baking paper. Cook at 220 degrees 6 - 8 minutes.

Store ready-made corn chips in a tin can.

Nachos with Mexican Cheese

Ingredients:

  • corn tortilla - 4 pcs.;
  • hard / semi-hard cheese - 80 - 90 g;
  • canned beans - 1 can;
  • salsa and guacamole sauce - to taste;
  • olive oil - 2 large spoons;
  • salt and paprika.

Cooking:

  1. Such a dish of Mexican cuisine is prepared very simply, but it turns out original and even worthy of a festive table. First of all, you need to preheat the oven to 190 degrees.
  2. Cut each tortilla into 7 - 8 pieces.
  3. Lay out future chips on a baking sheet with parchment. Sprinkle with salt, paprika, pour oil. Cook in the oven for 17 to 20 minutes.
  4. Grind the cheese, drain the liquid from the beans.
  5. Ready chips to remove from the oven. Change the temperature in it by 110 degrees.
  6. On the cooled chips, put a little bit of beans, generously sprinkle them with chopped cheese and bake for another 6 - 7 minutes.

Serve a treat with prepared sauces. You can buy ready-made or make ones yourself.

How to cook from pita bread

Instead of corn tortilla, the basis of the dish can be made thin Armenian pita bread, either home-made or store-bought.

Ingredients:

  • large pita bread - 2 pcs.;
  • vegetable oil - 120 - 140 ml;
  • paprika, dried garlic, marjoram, basil and salt - half a small spoon.

Cooking:

  1. Warm the oven to 220 degrees.
  2. Cut pita bread into pieces of any shape. For example, triangles.
  3. Put pieces on a baking sheet with parchment. Pour oil.
  4. Pour salt and all seasonings on top. It must be ensured that each piece is lubricated with them and oil. It is convenient to process the workpieces with a silicone confectionery brush.
  5. Place the pan in the oven for 6 to 7 minutes.

Serve the resulting chips with any sauce or with a hearty meat sauce.

Sauces for Nachos do it yourself

There are many good recipes for nachos sauces:

  1. The easiest option is ketchunez. Mix mayonnaise and ketchup in proportions to taste.
  2. Sour cream. Mix low-fat sour cream with crushed garlic. You can use it half with mayonnaise.
  3. From avocado. Kill the fruit pulp with a blender. Add spices and lime / lemon juice to taste. To salt.
  4. Cheesy. Slightly fry the wheat flour in butter. Pour all the cream. Darken a couple of minutes. Salt and add grated cheese. Cook to the desired density.
  5. Tomato. Salt and pepper tomato paste. Add finely chopped parsley leaves, fresh cilantro, basil to it.

Various nachos treats are great for a beer party. The main thing is not to forget to submit to them more various sauces, so that each guest can choose among them the most suitable for themselves.

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