Loaded Potato Nachos
These Loaded Potato Nachos are a great recipe for a quick weeknight meal! Potato slices topped with peppers, onions, meat, and cheese - you can't go wrong!
Servings: 3
Ingredients
- 6 small red potatoes
- 2-3 Tbsp peanut oil
- 1 medium green bell pepper
- 1 medium sweet red, yellow or orange pepper
- 1 medium yellow onion
- 1/2 pound hamburger or other meat of your choice I used 2 cooked hamburger patties
- 1 tsp Penzeys Adobo Seasoning
- 6 ounces shredded cheese of your choice I used Monterey Jack
- salt and pepper, to taste
Instructions
- First, prick a hole in each potato and microwave them for about 3 minutes. This kickstarts the cooking process so you don't have to fry them for so long.
- Once they are cool enough to touch, cut the potatoes into 1/4" slices.
- Preheat a nonstick skillet on medium heat with 2-3 Tbsp of peanut oil in the pan. Place the potato slices in the pan in a single layer, doing in batches to ensure they cooked and browned evenly. (Add additional peanut oil as needed.) Sprinkle salt and pepper on the potatoes while they are cooking.
- As each batch of potato slices gets done, place them on a paper towel on a baking sheet to drain a bit of the excess oil off and let them cool.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees. When all of the batches of potato slices are cooked evenly, remove the paper towel, make sure the potatoes are in a single layer and put the baking sheet into the oven. They will only bake like this for about 10 minutes or so, while you prepare the other ingredients.
- Next, dice the sweet peppers, green peppers, and yellow onion. Put them in the same nonstick skillet and saute on medium heat, stirring occasionally and cooking until tender. Add 1 teaspoon of Penzey's Adobo Seasoning (or other southwest/taco seasoning of your choice.)
- Dice the 2 hamburger patties (or whatever meat you are using), and add them to the pepper and onion mixture during the last minute or two of cooking, just to heat through.
- Grate the cheese and set aside.
- Take the baking sheet of potatoes from the oven, and top with the mixture of onion, pepper, and meat. Then, top with the grated cheese. Put back in the oven for 5-10 minutes to melt the cheese.
- Serve with sauces of your choice. We use plain yogurt, salsa, and a spicy cilantro sauce (recipe linked above within blog text.)
Notes
You can use whatever combination of ingredients you have on hand that sounds good on top of potatoes, and you can also easily increase the recipe to make more.