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Queso dip

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  • ½ lb cheese
  • 1 tbsp cornstarch
Grate the cheese yourself and toss it with the tablespoon of cornstarch.
  • 1 tbsp butter
  • garlic
  • green onions
  • salt
Melt the butter over medium high heat and add the minced garlic and sliced green onions with a big pinch of salt, the ground chipotle and the cumin.
Queso base: aromatics, chilies and tomato
  • ground chipotle
  • cumin
Cook stirring on medium high just two minutes, only to take off the raw edge, without browning anything.
  • ½ cup canned fire roasted chilies
  • diced seeded tomatoes
Add the fire roasted chilies and the diced seeded tomatoes and cook about two minutes.
  • 1 can evaporated milk
Stir in the can of evaporated milk and bring to a boil.
Stir, add the starched cheese and stir until melted; turn the heat off the moment it melts, because a boiled cheese sauce goes grainy and separates.
  • cilantro (optional)
  • cayenne
Stir in the chopped cilantro, then taste on a salted chip rather than a spoon and adjust the salt and cayenne.
Serve with corn chips, topped with more diced tomato, a scattering of green onion and a shake of cayenne.