Fable Nachos with ‘Not-cho’ Cheese Sauce

Who doesn’t like diving into a tray of hot cheesy nachos? Delicious, fool-proof and a crowd pleaser.

15 Sep, 2020 | Recipes | 4 comments

Preparation Time: 30 minutes + 2 hours soaking cashews for the cheese sauce beforehand
Cook time: 2-3 hours (or longer)
Serves: 4

We’ve even thrown in our ‘not-cho’ cheese sauce recipe – essential creamy goodness to please everyone, including your dairy die-hards.

Ingredients

  • 2 bags of corn tortilla chips 
  • 1 large avocado, diced
  • 1 tub of sour cream of choice

Fable Nacho ‘Meat’

  • 250g Fable pieces pulled apart into smaller pieces
  • 3 tbsp Extra Virgin Olive oil
  • 1 onion chopped
  • 3 cloves garlic chopped
  • 1 tbsp tomato paste
  • 1 x 400 g tin chopped tomatoes
  • 1 tin beans, drained (kidney beans, black beans or cannellini beans)
  • ¼ cup Chipotle sauce (reduce if you want less spicy)
  • 1 tbsp chili powder
  • 1 tbsp cumin powder
  • 1 tbsp smoked paprika
  • ¼ tsp cayenne pepper
  • Ground black pepper (to taste)
  • Salt (to taste)

‘Not’-cho Cheese Sauce

  • ½ cup raw cashews, soaked at least 2hrs in room temperature water
  • ½ brown onion, diced
  • ½ large carrot, peeled diced
  • ½ potato, peeled diced
  • 2-3 tbsp nutritional yeast
  • ½ tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • 1 tbsp Nuttelex or preferred choice butter 
  • Salt to taste
  • Optional: ¼ cup roasted red capsicum, diced

Pico de gallo

  • 3 Roma tomatoes, diced
  • ½ onion, diced
  • 1-2 jalapenos, diced
  • 3 tbsp fresh coriander leaves, chopped
  • 1 tbsp fresh lime juice
  • Splash of olive oil
  • Salt and pepper to taste

Method

  1. Soak cashews for at least 2 hours in room temperature water
  2. Prepare Fable Nacho ‘meat’. Heat olive oil in a heavy-bottom pot and fry Fable until browned for 5 minutes. 
  3. Add onion and garlic, for a further a few minutes until fragrant and caramelised.
  4. Add tomato paste, tinned tomatoes, chipotle sauce and spices and stir to evenly combine. 
  5. Add beans and simmer at low heat for 20-30 minutes until excess liquid has evaporated. Season with salt and pepper to taste. 
  6. In the meantime, prepare the ‘not-cho’ cheese sauce by boiling diced onion, potato and carrot in 500ml of water in a saucepan for 30 minutes. 
  7. Strain onion, potato and carrot and reserve the liquid. 
  8. In a blender, add the cooked onion, carrot and remaining ‘not-cho’ cheese ingredients into a with ¼ of the reserved liquid. 
  9. Puree in high speed adding the liquid slowly until desired consistency is achieved
  10. Add Nuttelex and puree to combine
  11. Optional:  after blending, mix through the roasted diced red capsicum
  12. Season cheese sauce with salt to taste 
  13. Prepare Pico de gallo by combining all ingredients
  14. With all nacho components ready, assemble by filling a large platter with the corn tortilla chips. Evenly distribute some warm Fable Nacho ‘meat’ on top, followed by the ‘not’-cho cheese sauce. Sprinkle on Pico de gallo and finish with diced avocado and dollops of your choice of sour cream.

4 Comments

  1. Megan

    We made the Nachos Meat tonight and it was fantastic. For those who dont like spice, I suggest halving the amount. I couldn’t even tell that this was plant based.

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  2. Paige Strudwick

    Assuming we add in the peeled potato at the boiling carrot and onion step? Can’t see it elsewhere in the recipe and not sure if I’m just missing it!

    Thanks 🙂

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    • Fable

      Oh yes!!! Just added that! so sorry we missed it! (And your message!) Hope you enjoyed it?

      Reply
  3. Danica Ryan

    I would love to know the spice mix that go into the shredded mushrooms in Guzman Y Gomez meals. So delicious and unique flavour. Are you able to share? These dishes on here look amazing. I can’t wait to buy some fable and try them all out! Keep up the amazing work.

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