Not-So-Healthy But Super Tasty Nachos

As I'm sure you've guessed from my previous posts, Dan and I tend to eat pretty nutritious meals most of the time. But sometimes you just have to give in to those cravings for comfort food, and nachos are one of our favorite "guilty pleasures."

We've "perfected" our recipe enough that now when I order them in restaurants, I usually find I don't like them as much as the ones we make at home. That's gotta be a good thing, right? Besides, I tell myself that these have to be healthier than what I'd get in a restaurant, just by the sheer fact that we're making them ourselves!!!!

We decided to make them last night using a few of our remaining CSA ingredients from this week - we were able to include pearl onions and cilantro! Here's what else we used:

- Green and red peppers, chopped
- Morningstar Farms Grillers Crumbles
- Wegman's* Garlic Lime Salsa
- Black beans
- Nacho chips
- Reduced-fat 4-Cheese Mexican Shredded Cheese


We use Morningstar Farms Grillers fairly often, but we've discovered that they taste A LOT better when you combine them with some sort of liquid. In this case, we mixed the salsa and the Grillers together, and then heated them briefly before adding them to the nachos.

We've also found that the best way to make this dish is to do it in layers - we started with a layer of chips, then a layer of the Grillers/salsa mixture and black beans.


Then we added another layer of chips, topped with the peppers, onion and cilantro (which we mixed together beforehand).


Cover with shredded cheese, and bake for 10 minutes at 400 degrees. Voila!


I do love how colorful the end result was... and if you don't want to eat so many nacho chips, we've also made this recipe by creating a "dip" of all of the ingredients and then putting it on top of just a few chips.

* PS - We LOVE Wegmans. The grocery store chain started in upstate NY, where we both went to college. There was a rumor that they were opening a few stores in the Boston area, but it has been on hold for a while because of liquor license issues. According to this article, they are still planning to come to our area next year or in 2012. I can't wait!

Whenever we're near a Wegmans, we always stock up on a few products, especially this particular salsa. It's great! NPR had a story about Wegmans a few months ago - you can read it here. Oh, and they were listed as the #3 company to work for in this year's 100 Best Companies from Fortune Magazine.