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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> South American >> Argentine

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Hand shred chicken into a saucepan, making each piece small enough to fit on a tortilla chip. | 2. Add to saucepan taco seasoning mix, adding the prescribed amount of water on the taco seasoning packet. | 3. Heat chicken over a medium-low fire to make seasoning mingle with chicken. | 4. If desired, add hot sauce to chicken mixture. | 5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. | 6. Put rack at highest level in oven. | 7. While chicken is cooking in taco seasoning, line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil. | 8. Spray foil lightly but evenly with non-stick spray. | 9. Line the cookie sheet with a layer of tortilla chips. | 10. Overlap chips if necessary. | 11. Sprinkle half of cheese over chips, coating evenly. | 12. Remove chicken from heat. | 13. Use a spoon to distribute chicken evenly over tortilla chips/cheese layer, making sure that some chicken is on each chip. | 14. If desired, drizzle any remaining taco seasoning sauce evenly over chips and chicken. | 15. Remember that more sauce makes the chips soggy, but some sauce may be desirable. | 16. If desired, place black olive and jalapeno pepper slices on each chip. | 17. Evenly sprinkle remainder of cheese over entire cookie sheet. | 18. Bake in oven on top rack for 10 minutes. | 19. At the end of 10 minutes, switch oven to"broil. | 20. "Broil nachos for 2 minutes using an electric oven, 1 minute using a gas oven. | 21. Watch nachos carefully so that they do not burn! | 22. Enjoy! | 23. Serve the sour cream and salsa in separate side dishes. | 24. Alternative directions#1: Spoon salsa evenly over cookie sheet just prior to placing nachos in oven. | 25. Alternative directions#2: Substitute browned ground beef for cooked chicken. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
tortilla chip	10	ounces		1176.525	226.8	31.185	16.1595
chicken	10 -16	ounces	cooked	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0
black olive	1	can	sliced	-	-	-	-
jalapeno pepper			sliced	-	-	-	-
taco seasoning	1	packet		-	-	-	-
taco cheese mexican	1	bag	blend	-	-	-	-
nonstick cooking spray				-	-	-	-
habanero sauce				-	-	-	-
cream	4	ounces	sour	224.528	5.2503	2.7669	21.9425
salsa	4	ounces		32.8854	7.5296	1.7236	0.1928
water				-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.