Cheese is manufactured throughout the world. It is a historical food with stocks that preexist in recorded history. This dairy product is made from the pressed milk curds. A variety of dishes are made from fresh cheese or aged cheese. Cheese is an enjoyable and healthy food that is very useful. You can put it to other dishes or eat it alone. It’s easy to prepare and portable. Over 300 varieties of cheese are there including the American, Mozzarella, Colby and Cheddar. A number of them are available in a variety of flavors and forms like chunks, cubes, slices, shredded, crumbled, grated, sticks and spreads. There are packets also available to meet consumer needs. In this article, we have mentioned some simple and easy steps to make nacho cheese.
Ways to Make Nacho Cheese
1.) Cheddar to Make Nacho Cheese
Things You Need
- Two spoons of butter
- Two spoons of flour
- One cup whole milk
- Sharp cheddar
- One spoon salt
- Half spoon chili powder
Steps to Make Nacho Cheese
- In a small sauce pot, add some flour and butter. Turn on the flame and beat the butter and flour until they develop bubbles and foam. Continue to cook and beat the mixture for about one minute.
- Add the milk into the mixture of flour and butter. Turn the flame up a little more and let the milk to come to a boil while beating. When it reaches a boil, the mixture will condense. Once it’s highly condense enough to cover a spoon, turn off the flame.
- Add some shredded cheddar, two spoons at a time, until it mixed completely into the sauce. If required, put the pot over a medium flame to help the cheese soften.
- Once all the cheese is changed into the sauce, add some salt and chili powder according to your requirement. Adjust the seasoning as per your taste. If the mixture becomes too thick, simply add some more amount of milk.
2.) Jalapeno to Make Nacho Cheese
Things You Need
- Tortilla chips
- Two spoons of butter
- Two spoons flour
- One cup of warm milk
- Eight slices of cheddar cheese
- Half spoon of salt
- Jalapeno peppers
Steps to Make Nacho Cheese
- In a saucepan, melt the two spoons of butter over low flame.
- Beat in the flour around one spoon at a time to avoid plodding.
- Add one cup of warm milk after the flour has become firm.
- Blend until the mix sauce has an even thickness.
- Add some cheese and salt.
- Turn the flame to low, when the cheese has melted properly, and let the sauce to simmer for ten to fifteen minutes.
- In an oven platter of full size spread around one bag of tortilla chips. To add some spice, spread some sliced jalapeno peppers over the chips.
- Now, in the oven bake the tortilla chips at 300 degrees for about ten minutes.
- Take out the chips from the oven after ten minutes and sprinkle the cheese evenly over them.
- Now, enjoy the best recipe of the world.
Health Benefits of Cheese
- Cheese is loaded with a lot of nutrients like protein, zinc, phosphorus, vitamin B12, calcium and vitamin A.
- Calcium is one of the major nutrients that are generally not found in the American diet.
- In a report it has been proved that, nine out of ten women and five out of ten men lack of calcium needs.
- The high amount of protein in the cheese provides the body the necessary amount of building blocks for healthy body.
- Aged cheeses such as Swiss and Cheddar are free of lactose and mostly liked by people who you are lactose intolerant.
- Saturated fat present in eggs, meats, cheese, whole milk, butter and some oils was measured as the main reason of heart disease.
- But recent researches, has shown that the saturated fat has a very minute impact on heart disease risk.
- This has changed the scenario a lot and people are enjoying cheese and other products in their meal.
- The calories in cheese are a major reason for the obesity, for this you can sprinkle some grated cheese over your delicious dishes.
- Many low calories cheese varieties are available to keep the obesity low.
