Potato Chip Nachos With Chipotle Beef

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These are for nacho lovers who are looking for thing other and are consenting to edifice to cutlery. Use freshly fried, heavy slices of russet potatoes oregon thickly chopped kettle murphy chips. The topping starts with the tinga rootlike basal (see related recipe); cooked beef, chicken, shrimp oregon beans tin beryllium added (see VARIATIONS, below).

A speedy flip successful a garlic-epazote lipid adds a furniture of flavor, but it's an other measurement of prep. We recovered caller epazote astatine Panam International Supermarket successful the District (202-545-0290). If you can't find any, substitute cilantro leaves.

As for the cheese, usage it sparingly. Taste the chipotle beef substance successful the skillet; if it's not excessively salty, crumble successful a sparse magnitude of Mexican oregon Spanish bluish cheese. If it's salty enough, you mightiness privation to opt for a adust Jack cheese, which we recovered astatine Cheesetique successful Del Ray (703-706-5300).

Serve with otherwise colored disposable forks, truthful your guests tin devour their mode done (communally) to the potatoes that are nary longer crisp.

The potatoes tin beryllium fried an hr successful beforehand and drained connected layers of insubstantial towels. The nachos should beryllium assembled conscionable earlier they are served.

Adapted from David Suarez, cook and culinary manager astatine Rosa Mexicano.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12-14

For the potatoes

1/2 cupful rootlike oregon canola oil, positive astir 2 1/2 quarts for frying
1/2 cupful olive oil
Leaves from 1/2 clump epazote (about 3 ounces), chopped into bladed strips (julienne; spot headnote)
Cloves from 1 caput garlic, minced
Kosher salt
12 mean to 15 mean russet potatoes, scrubbed cleanable (see headnote)

For assembly

3 cups to 4 cups braised boneless abbreviated ribs, defatted, past coarsely chopped (may substitute 3 to 4 cups cooked shredded boneless skinless chickenhearted oregon 1 1/2 pounds cooked peeled and deveined shrimp, coarsely chopped; spot VARIATIONS)
3 1/2 cups Tinga (see related recipe)
4 ounces to 6 ounces mild bluish food oregon adust jack cheese, crumbled (see headnote)
2 cups Cabbage Escabeche (see related recipe)
Mexican crema, for garnish
2 bunches scallions, achromatic and light-green parts, chopped crosswise into 1/4-inch pieces, for garnish
Pickled Chili Peppers, for garnish (see related recipe)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (based connected 14)

Calories
526
Fat
35 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
42 g
Sodium
380 mg
Cholesterol
29 mg
Protein
13 g
Fiber
5 g
Sugar
5 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from David Suarez, cook and culinary manager astatine Rosa Mexicano.

Tested by Bonnie S. Benwick.

Published February 2, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026