Spicy Cheese Sauce for Nachos and Tortillas

Are you looking for a sauce to accompany nachos or to fill tortillas? Then I can give you an interesting idea: if you are a cheese and spicy lover, the sauce will be for you! But be careful, with my spicy recipe I could leave you all speechless

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Identity Card of the Recipe

• 176 KCal Calories per serving

• Ingrediants

  • 300 ml of milk
  • 20 g of cornstarch
  • Q.b. of salt
  • 1 piece of chilli
  • 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil
  • 120 g of Cheddar

  Materials Needed

  • Casserole
  • Whip
  • Knife
  • Chopping board

  Preparation

  1. Prepare the cheese to add to the sauce: Cut the Cheddar or Edamer into cubes or chop it to make it easier to dissolve in the sauce.
  2. In a saucepan, pour the oil and flavor with the chopped hot pepper. Turn off the heat and allow to cool.

  Watch out for spiciness
  The spiciness depends on the type of chili chosen and the quantity. According to your personal taste, choose the most appropriate pepper and adjust with the quantity. Capsaicin, responsible for the spiciness, is concentrated above all in the seeds and internal filaments of the chilli.

  3. Pour the cold milk into the cornstarch, stirring constantly with the whisk to dissolve the lumps.
  4. Pour the milk with the cornstarch into the warm oil, season with salt and bring to the boil until the sauce thickens.
  5. Remove the sauce from the heat and add the cheese: stir quickly until the cheese appears completely melted and blended with the bechamel.
  6. Allow the sauce to cool and use as desired. The spicy cheese sauce can be used to accompany tortilla chips (nachos) or to fill sandwiches.

  Alice's comment - PersonalCooker

  I proposed this sauce to accompany nachos but you can adapt it to any other recipe: think, it is also fabulous to flavor pasta or to fill sandwiches!

  Nutritional values ​​and Health Comment on the recipe

  The Spicy Cheese Sauce is a food that belongs to the group of condiments.
  It has a significant energy supply, provided mainly by lipids, followed by proteins and finally by carbohydrates.
  The fatty acids are mainly unsaturated, the carbohydrates of the complex type and the peptides of medium biological value.
  The quantities of fiber and cholesterol seem irrelevant (probably, that of cholesterol is underestimated).
  The Spicy Cheese Sauce is a product that does not lend itself to the diet of the overweight and / or affected by metabolic diseases; alternatively, it can be used occasionally by eliminating the oil from other recipes.
  It is not suitable for the nutritional regimen for lactose intolerance, while it has no contraindications for celiac disease. It is suitable for vegetarians but not vegans.
  The average portion of Spicy Cheese Sauce is about 60g (105kcal).