Vegetarian Frito Pie

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This mentation of the accepted concession-stand repast successful the Southwest and Midwest, sometimes called a “walking taco,” takes it retired of the container and into a skillet. Preheating the chili helps support the chips from getting excessively soggy connected the bottom, and redeeming immoderate chips to adhd toward the extremity keeps them crisp connected top, too. Use immoderate maize chips you prefer: Fritos (look for lightly salted if you are acrophobic astir sodium), oregon an integrated marque specified arsenic RW Garcia. Top with your favourite chili, canned oregon homemade (see related recipe). And employment immoderate operation of toppings you similar — oregon conscionable acceptable them retired for your unit to formal their ain sheet up oregon down arsenic they spot fit.

The Frito pastry is champion eaten freshly made, but you tin refrigerate it (without garnishes) for up to 3 days; rewarm/recrisp nether the broiler.

From Food and Dining Editor Joe Yonan, loosely based connected a look astatine readyseteat.com.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (1 cupful pie, without toppings), based connected 8

• Calories

  380

• Fat

  19 g

• Saturated Fat

  6 g

• Carbohydrates

  35 g

• Sodium

  431 mg

• Cholesterol

  27 mg

• Protein

  15 g

• Fiber

  6 g

• Sugar

  2 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Food and Dining Editor Joe Yonan, loosely based connected a look astatine readyseteat.com.

Tested by Joe Yonan.

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