Nacho Cheese Dip

Submitted by MSR5055

"Works best in the UK, sorry about that. Got it from a friend in response to a pitiful plea for decent nacho cheese...kind of like the kind you get in the 7-11..."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4-6

ingredients

• 1 tablespoon butter
• 1 tablespoon flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 1⁄2 cups of cold milk
• 175 g red leicester cheese
• 100 g soft cheese (philly, etc...)
• 1⁄2 tablespoon of chopped red chile (or the paste)

directions

1. Make a simple bechamel sauce with the flour, butter, milk.
2. melt butter on medium heat, stirring in flour and cooking until golden.
3. add cold milk, turn up the heat to med/high, and stir constantly to avoid scalding, stir until thickened.
4. turn heat back to med and add GRATED red leicester cheese (has to be red leicester, won't taste right or be the right color other wise).
5. stir in red leicester, add 100g of soft cheese, stir through until melted and smooth.
6. add 1/2 tbs of chopped (really fine) chili's or red chili paste and stir in until smooth.
7. take off heat and serve.
8. also nice cold, has been used as the sauce for mac and cheese quite successfully, baked potato topping with bacon (kind of tastes like wendy's) and also -- if you want you can stir in some jalapeño peppers. (Make sure you drain them if canned.).