Description
These clean veggie loaded nachos provide big flavours, crunch and creamy guacamole with a decent macronutrient nutritional profile too. They cram in nine different types of plant based foods; black beans, corn, capsicum, zucchini, onion, avocado, tomato, coriander and lime with some corn chips, lean beef mince and optional sprinkle of hard cheese.
Ingredients
Scale
- 2 tbs extra virgin olive oil
- 1 onion, finely diced
- 500g lean beef mince
- Spices: 1/2 tsp paprika , 1 tsp cumin, 2 tsp chilli powder, 1 tsp oregano (optional)
- 1 zucchini, grated
- 1 capsicum, finely diced
- 2 tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 1 cob of corn, kernels cut from cob
- 140g or 1/4 cup of tomato paste
- 1 1/2 cups of cooked black beans or 400g can of black beans, well rinsed and drained
- 1 200g packet of corn chips
Toppings
- 3/4 cup of cherry tomatoes, sliced in half
- 1 1/2 avocado
- 1 bunch of coriander
- 1 lime
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup of grated hard cheese (optional)
- jalepenos (optional)
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Heat a large frypan on medium to high and once hot add some extra virgin olive oil and onion. Once the onion is starting to go translucent, add the beef mince, salt, pepper and optional spices paprika, cumin, chilli powder and oregano. Break the beef mince apart as you cook for about five minutes until browned.
- Then add the zucchini, capsicum, corn kernels, tomato, black beans and tomato paste and reduce to a simmer for about 20 minutes.
- While the beans and beef mixture is cooking you can get the toppings ready. Make the guacamole by peeling, deseeding and mashing the avocado and combine with salt, pepper and juice from 1/2 the lime. Cut the cherry tomatoes in halves, slice the jalapenos (optional), cut the remaining half a lime into four wedges and tear some coriander leaves from the bunch and set aside.
- Lay out your corn chips on a tray, top with the beef and bean mix and sprinkle with hard cheese if adding (optional). Place in the oven for about 10 minutes until the cheese has melted.
- To serve top with guacamole, cherry tomatoes, guacamole, lime and optional jalapenos.
Notes
- You can make this vegetarian or vegan by removing the beef mince and doubling the black beans or using a mix of both black beans and kidney beans. This will keep the protein content high.
- You can make this dairy free by removing the cheese.
- Prep Time: 15
- Cook Time: 30