Hi a huge welcome to Steve's Kitchen. Today we're going to make perfect nachos
or actually we're going to make the perfect nacho cheese sauce. Now quite
often when people make nachos they'll just take some grated cheese like this,
pop it over some corn chips and that's great but it will congeal and stick the
chips together. What we're really looking for is something like a stringy
mozzarella that doesn't congeal and set. So today we're going to make a perfect
nacho cheese sauce. So we're going to start with a white sauce, it's basically
a bechamel sauce, about 15 grams, that's about half an ounce of butter and equal
amounts of flour, so this is just plain flour and the reason we're doing it in
the pan, we're cooking the flour off so it doesn't have that uncooked flour
taste. I like to season also the bechamel with a little bit of black pepper.
Traditionally with a bechamel sauce you add a little bit of a milk at a time mix
it through until it thickens but actually for this I'm just going to add 1
cup of milk, it'll come together just fine and we're going to bring this milk
up to the heat while stirring until we get a nice thick white sauce and when it
starts to bubble and it starts to thicken like that it's perfect. We're
ready to start adding the cheese. Now if it does split you can use a whisk just
to bring it together, it's not lost. Now I've grated 170 grams, 6 ounces of
cheese. Now I know a lot of my American friends will use the orange American
cheese and that goes really well, I like the natural color of a mature cheddar
and if you've got a good mature cheddar it'll be well seasoned, if it isn't you
might need to season a little bit more the sauce. So whilst the sauce is hot
we're just going to take that cheese I'll probably add it in two parts and
I'm going to allow the sauce to melt the cheese down now. That's quickly dissolved
in there we'll take the rest of the cheese and just pop it on top. So you can
see now the cheese is pulling away from the pan, it is like a sort of mozzarella
cheese and we can just taste it now, look how runny that is, now is the time just
to taste your cheese sauce, be careful it will be very hot and if you want to you
can add a bit the seasoning. Now I'm going to grate a little bit of nutmeg, a
little fresh nutmeg in there but I am going to dice up some Jalapeño,
some little Jalapeño chilies. Now if you haven't got Jalapeños you could just use
dry red chilies. I'm going to mix that through my sauce. Now the beauty of this
cheese sauce is you can make it ahead of time, you can store it and just heat it
up in the microwave before you're ready to serve. Now earlier I took a little bit
of diced chicken, you could actually use hamburger and just fry it up. I put some
cajun spices so I've made this nice and hot and spicy, now if you like a little
meat in your nachos you can layer this in amongst the nachos. What I like to
do is to take about maybe half of my cheese sauce, add it in with the the meat
and just coat that meat over so we get a lovely meaty sauce, look at the colors
coming off there now, that's the Cajun spice mix and we're ready to plate up.
Now I'm actually going to use this pan it's still warm it's got some beautiful
gooey cheese in there. Now I happen to have these Dorito Southern Fried
Chicken corn chips as well and what I'm going to do is lay some in my plate or
serving tray, in this case it's a skillet. I want to take my southern fried chicken
sauce and just pour that over the top, next I've got that beautiful cheese
sauce, this is like a Mexican lasagna. We're going to layer on some more corn
chips, more of that southern fried chicken.
Now this is just the way I like my Doritos you can mix it up, you can go
with beef, you can go vegetarian and then over the top with that beautiful gooey
cheese sauce, a little bit of salsa, a little bit of sour cream or creme
fraiche. So there you have it, perfect nacho cheese sauce. I'm going to dig into
this in a moment if you've been enjoying this series, the recent series
of student meals, I'll leave a little link up here you can get across and
check out the chili and many other recipes we've done. In the meantime I'm
going to dip in and give this a try. Now that looks absolutely beautiful and
get a little bit of that Salsa as well tuck, in oh oh yeah I'm going straight in
for another one, these are absolutely delicious. Now if this is the way you
make your nachos comment down below, I'm happy, excuse me,
I'm happy to hear other ideas whether you've got a better idea, whether you
prefer the orange American cheese or a strong cheddar. Anyway
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