Sometimes you have to try and kick yourself when something so easy is so flippin’ good. Last week during the Green Bay Packers game, we had nacho night. We thought we would celebrate game day, as we hoped for a victory, which was not the case, with a nice plate of ‘build your own nachos’. I know how my family rolls when it comes to nachos. The kids are typically a bit of meat and cheese, while my daughter might be just cheese and chips. My wife will load hers with cheese, chips, a bit of meat, avocado, maybe some lettuce and tomato. Me on the other hand? Well, I like to jazz mine up, and load them up with things like beans, onions, cilantro, and some chilies. As I normally just use chopped up sprigs of cilantro, I decided to go another route, and make a cilantro sauce to heavily drizzle throughout the nachos, and whoa, was this stuff ever amazing!
Super simple ingredients yields a sauce so awesome that you will be blown away.
Let’s get started.
Ingredients:
- 1 bunch of fresh cilantro, cleaned
- 2-3 cloves of garlic (add more or less for garlic intensity)
- 1/2 tsp salt, to taste
- 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
- 3/4 cup of olive oil
- 1/4 cup of water
Add everything to a food process and blend until you have a smooth sauce. Pour into a glass container, and place in the refrigerator until you are ready to use. When you are ready to use, give a gentle shake, and spoon onto whatever you desire.
I’ve been using this sauce on everything from eggs at breakfast, to salads, and even drizzling on sandwiches.
This cilantro sauce is bright, and intense in flavor. You get that awesome punch of garlic cilantro flavor in every bite. I hope you enjoy!
- 1 bunch of fresh cilantro, cleaned
- 2-3 cloves of garlic (add more or less for garlic intensity)
- ½ tsp salt, to taste
- 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
- ¾ cup of olive oil
- ¼ cup of water
- Add everything to a food process and blend until you have a smooth sauce. Pour into a glass container, and place in the refrigerator until you are ready to use. When you are ready to use, give a gentle shake, and spoon onto whatever you desire.
- I've been using this sauce on everything from eggs at breakfast, to salads, and even drizzling on sandwiches.
- This cilantro sauce is bright, and intense in flavor. You get that awesome punch of garlic cilantro flavor in every bite. I hope you enjoy!
I mixed some of this up this morning – VERY good! I might add a bit of greek yogurt to make it a creamy sauce for some things.
LOVE the new look of your blog – clean, easy to find things – I always like “related” posts on food blogs to see things I might have missed.
Thanks Liz. That addition of yogurt sounds like a great ideas as well. Glad you like the new look.
This looks fab! I cant wait to try this on my family.
Oh… and sorry…we’re 49er faithfuls 🙂
Hi Amanda – No worries. My brother-n-law’s son plays for the 49ers, so we are cheering them on as well! His name is Derek Carrier (http://www.49ers.com/team/roster/Derek-Carrier/5ff2535e-d29c-4a31-b059-cef7e5e3839c)