Queso Recipes
Warm, scoopable cheese dip — smoked queso, restaurant style queso, Chili's skillet queso copycat, easy crockpot queso — for game day and busy weeknights.
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snackSmoked Queso 🔥
In Texas, Queso is pretty much it’s own food group and smoked Queso is next-level good.
Breanna StarkIngredients
- 1 lb Ground Beef
- 2 tbsp Taco Seasoning
- 16 oz Velveeta
- 8 oz Monterrey Jack Cheese
- 1 can Rotel
- 2 tbsp Diced Jalapeños
- 2 tbsp Fresh Cilantro
- 1/2 cup Milk
Instructions
- 1Start by browning your ground beef in a pan. Once it’s browned, add the taco seasoning and mix well.
- 2Chop your Velveeta & Monterey Jack cheese into cubes about 1” thick.
- 3In an aluminum pan, add your cheese, ground beef, Rotel, diced jalapeños, cilantro, and milk. You don’t need to mix it, just dump it all in there.
- 4Place on the grill or smoker at 300°F for about 30 minutes, or until the cheese just starts to melt.
- 5With a large spoon, stir the Queso until everything is well-incorporated.
- 6Place back on the smoker for another 5-10 minutes, then it’s ready to enjoy!
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Open in Pepper →A Pot Of Melted Cheese Fixes Everything
Queso is the thing everybody crowds around. It takes ten minutes, it stretches a bag of chips into a meal, and nobody ever asks what's in it — they just keep dipping.
Cooks on Pepper reach for these when the game's on, when the kids have friends over, or when supper is just chips, queso, and whatever's left in the fridge.
Every recipe here is a real pot of cheese: Smoked Queso with ground beef and taco seasoning, a white American cheese Queso with cumin, the Chili's Skillet Queso Copycat with Hormel chili, Easy Crockpot Queso, and Queso Blanco with Rotel.
Quick Tips
- 1
Melt low and slow
Keep the heat on low and stir every couple of minutes. High heat breaks the cheese and leaves it grainy in under 5 minutes.
- 2
Use evaporated milk
A 12-oz can of evaporated milk keeps queso smooth and pourable longer than regular milk, especially in the crockpot.
- 3
Shred your own cheese
Bagged shreds are coated to keep from clumping, which makes dip gritty. Grate a 1-lb block of pepper jack or white American yourself.
- 4
Drain the beef well
Brown a pound of ground beef and pour off the grease before it goes in, or the queso will separate into an oily layer on top.
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