Game Day Nachos with Chipotle Cashew Queso
 
 
Serves a crowd, or 4 people as a main.
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Ingredients
  • 16 ounces restaurant style tortilla chips
  • ¾ cup cherry tomatoes, chopped
  • 2 jalapenos, sliced thin
  • ¼ red onion, diced
  • ¾ cup canned black beans, drained and rinsed
  • ¼ cup cilantro, minced
Chipotle Cashew Queso
  • 1 10 ounce can Rotel (diced tomatoes & green chilies)
  • ½ cup raw, unsalted cashews, soaked in water for 2-24 hours*
  • ¾ cup light coconut milk (from a can)
  • 2 tablespoons lime juice
  • 2 chipotle peppers from a can of chipotles in adobo
  • 1 teaspoon agave nectar
  • ¼ teaspoon sea salt
Easy Avocado Mash
  • 2 avocados
  • juice of ½ a lime
  • garlic powder
  • red chili pepper
  • sea salt
Instructions
Chipotle Cashew Queso
  1. Combine cashews, coconut milk, lime juice, and salt in a high speed blender. Blend until mixture is completely smooth, about 2 minutes. Add agave, and chipotles in adobo and blend about 20 seconds more. Add Rotel and blend until smooth, 30 seconds more. (For a chunkier queso, do not blend Rotel. Add to the queso when heating.)
Easy Avocado Mash
  1. Roughly mash avocados with a fork. Squeeze lime juice over and sprinkle with garlic powder, red chili pepper and sea salt. Mix together. Add additional seasonings to taste.
Assembling Nachos
  1. Preheat oven to 300F. Pour queso into a saucepan and warm over medium to medium-high heat for about 5 minutes, stirring frequently to prevent burning. Queso will thicken as it warms.
  2. Arrange chips in a single layer on a parchment lined cookie sheet and top with half of the black beans, tomatoes, jalapenos, and red onion. Add another layer of chips. Once queso is warmed throughout, drizzle over the chips. Top queso with remaining beans, tomatoes, jalapenos and red onion. Place the nachos in the oven until chips are warm, about 5 minutes. Remove from oven and garnish with cilantro. Serve immediately.
Notes
*If you're short on time, pour boiling water over cashews and allow to sit for 20 minutes before blending.
Recipe by The Mostly Vegan at https://www.themostlyvegan.com/game-day-nachos/