Sounds a little weird, huh? Mexican and Thai don’t mix, do they? I’m here to tell you now; maybe. Like most excellent ideas, this came to us after recovering from a pierogi-induced coma. On the back of the package of pierogies, we stumbled upon the recipe given to us to try, pierogi nachos. A good effort, but we thought instead: “What if we took frying cheese and made nachos with it?” One thing led to another and now we’re here. We’ve been on an Asian-cuisine kick as of late, (as evidenced by our previous post) so our first choice was to take a simple food like nachos and Thai-ify it. (We’re coining that term, by the way.)
Thai food is instantly recognizable from other Asian cuisine due to their love for aromatics and spice, so we decided to pick the arguably, best of the two, spice.
Here’s what you’ll need:
- Frying Cheese, sliced thinly and preferably into triangles.
- Crab Meat or other seafood.
- Avocado
- Cucumber
- Onion
- Lime Juice
- Jalapenos
- Thai Chili Sauce, sweet is recommended
- Basil to season/taste
- We used corn flour to aid frying but it’s not required.
This recipe is as easy as frying your cheesy nachos and tossing everything onto a plate. A small sauce pan gives the best result for the frying cheese. Set about an inch of olive oil in the bottom of the pan and set to medium-high heat. Your nachos should be crispy and dark, but not black.
Once you’ve finished frying, evacuate your nachos and place them on a plate. Over top of your delicious nachos, place your seafood, cucumber, onions and avocado, Use jalapenos and Thai chili sauce sparingly, because that will bring up the heat by quite a bit.
Another food coma later and I believe it is self-explanatory that this is an unorthodox but exceptional pairing. It’s funny to think that two completely different food cultures could combine to make something better than the two could achieve alone and therefore makes it satisfying to discover the little niches.
What did you think of the nachos; did you try them out? Leave us your impressions down below!
