Queso Fundido
Posted by imaginer01 10 months ago
One of my favorite Mexican dishes is queso fundido - basically heaping quantities of melted cheese mixed with various meats (usually chorizo) and served in tortillas as an appetizer. The trouble is finding good Mexican ingredients at your local New England grocery store. Mexican melting cheese and chorizo are not always readily available.
So I experimented with a lb. of white American cheese from the deli (as close to Mexican cheese as I could find) and a sort of homemade "chorizo" made by pouring all sorts of spices into ground pork. It actually turned out rather well, considering. I intend to play with it some more and experiment on my friends, but it seemed to be a success (and not that all difficult to prepare - if I could only learn to dice an onion properly).
I'm curious what kind of seasonings you add to the meat; things like chili powder and crushed red pepper? My mom used to always add cumin to her mexican dishes, but I'm not sure if this is authentic. Also, do you wrap the filling in a tortilla like a taco, or serve it open faced? Sounds great.
I'm not honestly sure what qualifies as authentic Mexican, so I used some spices I found on a "homemade chorizo website" I probably ought to find and link to. If I remember correctly, it was coriander, cumin, garlic, oregano, red pepper flakes, and black pepper. I've seen other recipes that involve vinegar, but they weren't terribly specific about the type - which you would think would make a lot of difference.
Thanks so much. I'll have to give that a try.