Tostito Scooper Meat And Cheese Hot Dish

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• pam cooking spray
• 4 -6 cups tostito scoop tortilla chips
• 1/2 lb ground beef or 1/2 lb ground turkey
• 1 tablespoon olive oil (use for turkey burger)
• 14 1/2 ounces mexican-style tomatoes, drained (save juice)
• 2 cups colby-monterey jack cheese or 2 cups monterey jack pepper cheese, fine shredded
• 3 tablespoons margarine or 3 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 2 3/4 cups milk
• 1/2 teaspoon dried cilantro

Recipe

• 1 in medium saucepan, add margarine and flour.
• 2 whisk until margarine melted and flour blended. add milk. whisk on medium heat until sauce starts to thicken.
• 3 add cilantro and blend.
• 4 cook a few minutes and take off heat. set aside.
• 5 preheat oven 375°.
• 6 use a shallow baking dish with 1 to 2 inch sides. i use a 10 1/2 inch round pyrex baking dish. spray dish with pam.
• 7 cook burger in medium fry pan until just browned.
• 8 option 1. add 1 cup cream sauce to the meat. reserve the balance for the top.
• 9 option 2. add the reserved tomato juice to meat and save the cream sauce for the top.
• 10 pour scoopers in the baking pan.
• 11 spoon meat over scoopers.
• 12 add diced tomatoes.
• 13 add shredded cheeses.
• 14 bake 20 minutes until cheeses are nicely melted, not brown.
• 15 take out of oven. add cream sauce on top.
• 16 bake 10 minutes more until hot.
• 17 set about 10 minutes.
• 18 note: if you use fresh tomatoes like roma, you must add cream sauce to meat or it will be dry. there is not enough juice to add to the meat.
• 19 you can use other types of cheeses.
• 20 i like to use cream sauces and add flavoring nstead of canned soups which are too salty for us to eat now.