NACHOS WITH SMOKED CHICKEN
Recipe and photo: Rosemary Briggs
Nachos are a Tex-Mex dish from northern Mexico, you can add any protein you like or leave it out for a lighter meal or vegetarian dish. Always ensure it is possible to eat this dish with your fingers, there are Nachos Police who arrest people who use eating utensils with this dish.
I used chunky cottage cheese, as it was on special (bonus on the wallet) and it worked really well. Traditionally you should use sour cream, but I found that the little people like the cottage cheese better.
As you read the recipe you will see there are lots of optional ingredients or alternatives. This is the best thing about this dish, you can add whatever you like and use up any leftover ingredients stock piled from the week.
- 250 g bag of Doritos (I used the cheese flavour, but you can spice it up with a hotter flavour)
- 250 g smoked chicken sliced into bite size pieces
- ½ sweet yellow pepper chopped small
- 10 ml garlic (fresh chopped is best, less if you using garlic powder)
- 15 ml butter
- 2 medium tomatoes, chopped (or use halved cherry tomatoes)
- 10 small spring onions chopped
- 25 0g tub plain chunky Cottage Cheese
- olive oil
- handful of chopped fresh coriander (You can omit this if you don’t have or like)
- chopped fresh chilli (Optional)
- black Pepper
- 300 g grated Cheddar
- Place the whole bag chips on a big oven proof platter.
- In a pan, on a medium heat, fry the chicken, peppers and garlic until heated through and peppers slightly softened.
- Remove from the heat and add the tomatoes and spring onions, stir through.
- Leave to stand for 5 minutes to heat the tomatoes slightly.
- Evenly place the chicken mix on top of the chips, to ensure that everyone gets some with each serving.
- Top with the cottage cheese, you can’t spread this but ensure that there are some “blobs” everywhere.
- Add the fresh coriander and chilli (if using).
- Season with lots of ground black pepper
- Top evenly with lots of cheese
