Super Bowl Easy Chicken Or Beef Nachos

Total Time: 27 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 12 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 10 ounces tortilla chips (about 3/4 of a 13.5 oz bag flat chips work best, similar to tostitos crispy rounds.)
• 10 -16 ounces cooked chicken (a 10 oz perdue or tyson pre-cooked chicken strips in a box save time.)
• 1 (2 ounce) can of sliced black olives
• sliced jalapeno pepper, to taste
• 1 (1 1/4 ounce) packet taco seasoning
• 1 (8 ounce) bag taco cheese, blend (monterey jack and cheddar) or 1 (8 ounce) bag mexican blend cheese (monterey jack and cheddar)
• nonstick cooking spray
• habanero sauce, to taste
• 4 ounces sour cream
• 4 ounces salsa
• water

Recipe

• 1 hand shred chicken into a saucepan, making each piece small enough to fit on a tortilla chip.
• 2 add to saucepan taco seasoning mix, adding the prescribed amount of water on the taco seasoning packet.
• 3 heat chicken over a medium-low fire to make seasoning mingle with chicken.
• 4 if desired, add hot sauce to chicken mixture.
• 5 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 6 put rack at highest level in oven.
• 7 while chicken is cooking in taco seasoning, line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil.
• 8 spray foil lightly but evenly with non-stick spray.
• 9 line the cookie sheet with a layer of tortilla chips.
• 10 overlap chips if necessary.
• 11 sprinkle half of cheese over chips, coating evenly.
• 12 remove chicken from heat.
• 13 use a spoon to distribute chicken evenly over tortilla chips/cheese layer, making sure that some chicken is on each chip.
• 14 if desired, drizzle any remaining taco seasoning sauce evenly over chips and chicken.
• 15 remember that more sauce makes the chips soggy, but some sauce may be desirable.
• 16 if desired, place black olive and jalapeno pepper slices on each chip.
• 17 evenly sprinkle remainder of cheese over entire cookie sheet.
• 18 bake in oven on top rack for 10 minutes.
• 19 at the end of 10 minutes, switch oven to"broil.
• 20 "broil nachos for 2 minutes using an electric oven, 1 minute using a gas oven.
• 21 watch nachos carefully so that they do not burn!
• 22 enjoy!
• 23 serve the sour cream and salsa in separate side dishes.
• 24 alternative directions#1: spoon salsa evenly over cookie sheet just prior to placing nachos in oven.
• 25 alternative directions#2: substitute browned ground beef for cooked chicken.