Texas Queso Dip

Use it to top nachos or just as a dip for tortilla chips. This recipe combines two cheeses, onions, and green chiles for a Tex-Mex winner.

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I want to make some cheese sauce for nachos but every recipe I can find uses velveeta, Is there something I can buy in UK supermarkets thats close to that? Thanks.

I’m looking for some authentic tex-mex queso recipes. Any gems?

Does anyone have any good recipes out there for a queso dip? I can’t eat anything too spicy. Do I have to use Velveeta to get a smooth texture?

OK, I’d never made queso before other than the velveeta kind a long time ago, so I tried it last night. I cooked down some onions and poblano peppers, diced some tomatoes, cooked all that down, then added asadero and...

and Velveeta and was wondering if maybe he meant ‘cream cheese’. However, then I found a bunch of recipes for Velveeta Fudge – if you google it, you’ll see all the links. Could it be something like that?

Being from Texas, I was weened on the stuff. Rarely will you find this artery clogging concoction in Los Angeles, but the recipe is simple. One block of Velveeta cheese and one can of Rotel Tomatoes. Warm it all up in a pot,...

ec, had the new santa fe guac and queso a few weeks back...guac ok but not outstanding ~ queso was surely melted velveeta with salsa mixed in...the worst I’ve had in a while I can report that the margaritas were very good...

I came here from Toronto, which has a large Portuguese population, 20 years ago. Since then, my summers have not been complete without queso fresco (sprinkled with a little cinnamon...mmm!). Sometimes it is called queso blanco....

I guess without the flaming booze, this is queso fundido? I know I’ve had queso fundido out and about, but I can’t recall where. Foodibytes reports it’s at Tres Agaves, Chava’s, La Parilla, El Herradero,...

. Back in Tokyo, such cheese is far, far away. So I asked a friend of mine in El Dorado county, who has 40 head of goats and has been making goat cheese for years, how to make queso fresca. Dead simple, he says. So I have been...

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