A creamy and golden Nacho Cheese Sauce is an essential part of a cheese lovers diet. Anything with nacho cheese sauce makes an excellent snack for almost any occasion. Whether you’re home alone or at a party, Nachos cheese sauce is the best option for cheese dip.
You can make this delicious sauce at home as it requires very few ingredients, but if you don’t want to bother with the extra hassle, you can purchase Pure Dairy’s ready-made Anita Cheese Sauce AKA Nacho cheese sauce and enjoy instantly. You also don’t have to worry about the harmful chemicals and colors; this cheese sauce is made of real cheese, not cheese products.
You might have been eating the nacho cheese sauce for a long time, but have you ever wondered about its background and why it is called Nacho Cheese Sauce?
Now you might have a question regarding what actually is nacho cheese sauce? And which cheese is used to make this golden cheese sauce?
Read until the end of this article, and you will discover a few new things about Nacho Cheese Sauce that might amaze you.
Reason Behind The Name “Nachos Cheese Sauce”
When it comes to nachos history, it was the result of a missing chef and little creative thinking. According to the San Antonio Express-News published in 2002, Nacho was initially invented by a person named Ignacio “Nacho” Anaya in 1943.
Anaya used to work at a restaurant called ‘The victory club’, one of the famous restaurants in Piedras Negras, Mexico. One day when a group of 10 to 12 women traveled across the border from Eagle Pass, Texas, to eat at the Victory Club. Anaya couldn’t find the cook, so he decided to attempt to cook instead.
He went into the kitchen and picked up some tostadas, grated Wisconsin cheese on them, and put them under a broiler (salamander). After a couple of minutes, all the cheese was melted, and he finished the dish by adding a slice of jalapeno.
As the dish was utterly new, when he was asked for the name of the dish, he called it Nacho’s Especiales, which was later shortened to simply “nachos.” So, we can say the original nacho cheese was cheddar.
With Nachos now being quite famous, the cheese always needed to be melted, taking up a lot of time in the kitchen. So, some companies started selling liquid cheese, which is popularly known as a Nacho Cheese Sauce.
A Healthy Cheese Sauce
Generally, 1 cup of nachos cheese contains 480 – 511 calories with 72% of fat, 16% carbs, and 12% protein. The numbers may vary according to the cheese used to make it.
These numbers might be shocking for you to know, and you might be wondering if nacho cheese is healthy? Nachos with cheese sauce is a dish that is high in calories, fat, and sodium. We usually eat them as a snack or appetizer, but the calories match what we can get from eating a meal.
But how can you say no to Nachos with cheese sauce? Instead make it a healthier snack by only eating it occasionally and making some modifications like adding high protein toppings such as black beans, skinless chicken and veggies.
Note:
If you have a large quantity of leftover Nacho Cheese Sauce, separate the sauce into multiple containers. This will help while reheating the sauce because if you heat all the cheese and don’t use it all you will have to re-freeze it and the quality of cheese sauce will keep degrading if freezing and heating is done multiple times.
Not limited to Nachos
Nachos cheese sauce doesn’t just have to go on Nachos chips. You can use its delicious, gooey cheesiness to add something special to chicken, steamed vegetables, or as a dipping sauce.
Great for Tex Mex, it’s also used on burgers, creamy pasta, as a topping on pizza. The opportunities are endless.
