Nachos

neuro-praxis

I'd like to prepare a nachos dish akin to the amazing Nachos Supreme in Acapulco on South Great George's Street.

What it seems to be to me is layers of unsalted corn chips, sprinkled with spring onions and topped with a creamy bechamel sauce, then heaped with a mild white cheddar cheese and placed under a grill. Once off the heat, it is topped with salsa, sour cream and guacamole. Perfection.

My only problem is that I cannot find unsalted corn chips anywhere. Tescos do delicious corn chips for 39cents a bag but they are quite salty. Can anyone help?

rubadub

I would imagine the best bet would be health food shops.

MissFlitworth

em, not to sound like I'm hoorin' for Taco Taco or anything, but they sell some Mexican foods to bring home as well and I'm pretty sure one of the things they have is unsalted corn chips. That and ginooooooormous tins of refried beans the size of my head

Sorry- just realised I was waffling on about Taco Taco in another thread and this made no sense here. They're in the Epicurean Foodhall in dublin city centre

olaola

I'm sure I've seen them somewhere. I'd try taco taco alright. Maybe M&S have them? I'm going to be in there later, I'll have a gawk.

neuro-praxis

Rubadub I have never seen them in health food shops, although I haven't been in them all, obviously. Can anyone else recall seeing them in a particular health food shop?

And Taco Taco's corn chips are all salted in the dishes they sell, so I'd be very surprised if they had unsalted ones for sale, although I will check, thank you.

Any luck in M&S Olala?

rubadub

If really stuck you could make some. http://recipes.kaboose.com/homemade-corn-chips.html (omit the salt of course)

I was looking up how to make tortilla wraps yesterday. I have gram flour which is very low GI and thought of making some from it in bulk.

Magic Monkey

What do you call cheese that's not yours? Nacho cheese

Easiest way to make your own tortilla chips would be to buy a packet of the Old El Paso corn tortilla wraps, cut each one four times, to get eight small triangles, and either bake these in a moderate oven until crispy (you can put something on top of them to stop them curling up if you prefer them flat), or deep-fry, which is more authentic.

bonkey

rubadub wrote: »

If really stuck you could make some. http://recipes.kaboose.com/homemade-corn-chips.html (omit the salt of course)

Assuming that by "unsalted", neuro-praxis means that it doesn't have salt "dusting" on the outside (or any other flavour for that matter), then I wouldn't omit the salt from the recipe.

If by unsalted, though, you mean "no salt used at all", I'd say you could find it tough.

neuro-praxis

bonkey wrote: »

Assuming that by "unsalted", neuro-praxis means that it doesn't have salt "dusting" on the outside (or any other flavour for that matter)

Yes that's exactly what I mean - chips with no salt on the outside.

the beer revolu

I've had nachos out where the restaurant used flavoured tortillas.
Awful!!

olaola

Checked M&S - they only have a 'lightly salted' flavour. No plain.

Swampy

You can buy a nacho kit from el paso. The nachos are as far as i know round unsalted. then just throw out all the other crap it comes with.

Sparks

Just cut up tortillas and deep-fry them (you don't even need a fryer, just use a wok and a cup or two of oil and work in small batches (and don't leave it unattended and do have a fire blanket...)).
Cheaper as well as better.

Honey-ec

Bechamel sauce on nachos? I think I just got a bit sick in my mouth... :eek:

neuro-praxis

Thanks for that.