Ok, let’s start with a recipe. Sort of. There’s no cooking involved. It’s more assembling ingredients really. But it looks good, and makes you think you’ve achieved something pretty special. That’s my kind of meal.
This evolved on a summers day when we had just got back from holiday. 3 weeks of over eating and over drinking in Spain, and, very unlike me, I was craving a salad. I made the mistake of asking the boy what he fancied for dinner. Although he eats quite healthily, I think he’d rather enjoyed the 3 weeks of eating crap, and declared “nachos” and so my Mexican nacho salad was born. It’s really not a healthy salad, but it’s got salad in the title and that makes me feel a bit better. Someone somewhere has already probably made this, but I bet they didn’t put it in a trifle bowl like I did, so I’m claiming it as my own.
Its mostly made of store cupboard or fridge ingredients that you’ve probably already got, and anything else can be easily purchased in the supermarket.
Ingredients
Lettuce – any kind, I used iceberg because that’s what I had
tomatoes – big ones, small ones, fancy ones on the vine, doesn’t matter, just chop them up and sling them in
red onion sliced
corrinader
tomato salsa – jar, fresh, homemade, whatever
guacamole – same as salsa, doesn’t matter what kind
sour cream
grated cheese
bag of nachos
pack of Mexican microwave rice
jar of refried beans
Method
Are you ready for this? Microwave the rice. Get all your other ingredients and layer them up in a huge bowl. Like I said, I used a trifle bowl, but stick in in anything, doesn’t matter. Think a little bit about the order just so it looks pretty really and all your sauces don’t get mixed up and gross looking, but that’s it.
Add anything else you want, chopped avocado, cucumber, jalapeños, leftover chicken. It’s that simple. I told you, I don’t faff around with fancy pants cooking. I like quick, easy dinners that will keep my kids quiet, that’s my main dinner time aim, and this does the job perfectly. Enjoy!
No such thing as normal 