Easy Appetizer Recipes
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Nacho Cheese Ball Recipe with Olives and Cilantro
Cheddar and pepper jack cheeses give this cheese ball recipe its wonderfully cheesy flavor and the cream cheese adds a softness as well as another cheese flavor. The onion powder enhances the cheese flavor and the olives, cilantro, and lime add a hint of Mexican flavor. If you are serving other Mexican appetizer recipes like salsa, tortilla chips or a Mexican salad, this cheese ball is nice to serve too because the flavors of the different appetizers will go together nicely.
There are different cheese ball recipes you can choose from but this one is especially flavorful because of the mixture of tasty ingredients and it is a great looking appetizer recipe too - very colorful and appealing.
This is a great looking appetizer and a very yummy one too. This is simple to make and you just need to combine everything to make the nacho cheese ball, roll it in the nachos and chill it. This is one of the appetizers that is best to serve indoors rather than outdoors on a warm day, for obvious reasons! Melted cheese ball recipes are not half as impressive as ones kept in cool conditions!
Nacho Coated Cheese Ball Recipe
Ingredients -
4 oz cheddar
6 oz Pepper Jack cheese
½ teaspoon onion powder
¾ cup nacho chips
1 tablespoon lime juice
3 oz cream cheese, at room temperature
¼ cup fresh cilantro
¼ cup black olives, pitted
Preparation:
Shred the Pepper Jack cheese and the cheddar.
Finely chop the cilantro and black olives and crush the nacho chips.
Put the cream cheese and the other cheeses in a food processor with the onion powder and lime juice.
Process until everything is well mixed together then transfer the cheese ball mixture to a mixing bowl.
Add the cilantro, olives, and mix.
Sprinkle the nacho chips on a sheet of wax paper and mold the cheese mixture into a ball with your hands.
Put the cheese ball on the wax paper, rolling it in the nacho chips until it is covered with them.
Chill the cheese ball for half an hour, and then let it sit at room temperature for 20 minutes before serving so it is soft enough to eat.
Serve with crackers or nachos to scoop the cheese ball recipe on to.
(Serves 6)
