Ingredients

  • 3 Tbsp vegetable oil
  • 1 red onion, chopped
  • 8 oz 90% lean ground beef
  • 1 Tbsp chili powder
  • 2 garlic cloves, minced
  • ½ tsp cumin
  • ½ tsp coriander
  • ¼ tsp cayenne
  • ⅛ tsp Kosher salt
  • ½ C chicken broth
  • 8 oz Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
  • 8 oz sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
  • 8 oz tortilla chip
  • 1 yellow bell pepper
  • ½ green bell pepper
  • ½ tsp Jacobsen Smoked Sea Salt
  • 7 oz Chipotles in adobo sauce
  • 8 oz sour cream
  • 2 Tbsp cilantro leaves, julienne or finely sliced
  • ½ tsp crushed red pepper

Directions

  1. Add vegetable oil to your FINEX 12″ Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s medium setting for a couple minutes, or until a pice of onion sizzles gently in the oil.
  2. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Add diced onion, let cook for a minute, stir then add beef. Mix to break up meat and cook for 5-6 minutes or until no longer pink.
  3. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Stir in garlic, oregano, cumin, coriander, chili powder, cayenne and kosher salt.
  4. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Add chicken broth and 2-3 Tbsp of adobo sauce from chipotle can. Reduce heat and stir, scraping any stuck pieces into the mixture until most of the liquid has evaporated.
  5. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Scrape mixture into medium mixing bowl and stir in half of your cheese: half cheddar and half monterey jack.
  6. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Rinse skillet and dry with towel then, spread a single overlapping layer of tortilla chips (4 oz).
  7. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Spread about 1/3rd the remaining cheese and half the beef mixture over the tortilla chip layer. Then add another layer of chips and beef.
  8. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Then turn your stove burner or other flame source on high. Hold a bell pepper firmly with fire-safe metal tongs or by spearing it on a large fork and place it in the flame. Within 30 sec your pepper should show charred spots, let them expand then turn the pepper. Keep watching and rotating in the flame until about half the pepper’s surface shows some charing, then repeat with the second bell pepper.
  9. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Thin cut the charred bell peppers (careful: they will be hot) into 1/4″ slices, discarding the seeds and interior flesh. Then toss in Jacobsen Smoked Sea Salt.
  10. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Place charred & salted bell pepper strips over the top tortilla-chip and beef layer, then top with the remaining cheese and crushed red pepper.
  11. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Bake at 400 degrees for 15 minutes, or until cheese or chips show some browning.

Chipotle Sour Cream

  1. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s While nachos are baking, mince three Adobo sauce covered chipotle peppers along with their seeds. Mix into 8 oz sour cream in serving bowl.
  2. Add vegetable oil to your 12″ FINEX Cast Iron Skillet and heat your stove’s Remove skillet from oven and let cool for a couple minutes before sprinkling with cilantro and serving with chipotle sour cream. Be careful – the skillet will be hot. Enjoy!

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