Smoked Meat Kimchi Potato Nachos
Admittedly, from scratch this is a really simple but lengthy process. 3 stages and tons of flavours; this is something you will NOT regret making.
Equipment
- Heavy Pot (medium size)
- Baking Sheet
Ingredients
- 5 Russet potatoes Kennebec or White
- 3 cups cooking oil (high burn temp) canola, avocado, peanut
- 1 cup Korean Red Pepper Corn Salsa See recipe link above
- 2 cups cheese shredded
- ½ lb. meat (chopped sausage, pulled chicken/pork, steak...) use whatever leftover or whatever favorite you have on hand!
- ½ can black olives
- ½ cup red or green bell pepper finely chopped
- ½ cup white or red onion finely chopped
- ¼ cup kimchi finely chopped
- cilantro chopped, garnish
- green onion finely sliced, garnish
Instructions
Deep Fried Chips
- Heat oil in a thick-bottom pot. Bring to ~350°F /175°C.
- With a mandolin on waffle/ripple setting and/or by hand (with/without ripple), thinly slice up 4-6 large potatoes, or accordingly to however large a serving size you would like.
- Gently place chips in hot oil. Be careful for splashback (oil is hot!)
- Deep fry for 12-15 minutes, or until desired cook level. Do multiple batches, if required.
Bake
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- While keeping (at least) a loose eye on the potatoes that are cooking in hot oil, chop, slice, dice and prepare all ingredients.
- I made this with corn salsa (because I admittedly didn't have any tomatoes that day), but feel free to top with tomato-based salsa as well), must use toppings are onion, green onion, cilantro, corn salsa, (smoked) meat and KIMCHI!
- Make as complicated as you want. Just make sure you layer your cheese and chips!!!
- Top with all desired ingredients (the world is your oyster!...you can even use oysters if you want).
- Once topped, bake for ~15 minutes or until desired bake-level is reached (cheese sufficiently melted and veg/meat sufficiently cooked)
- Once baked, remove from heat and let rest 3 minutes before dishing out. ENJOY!
Notes
I'm sure the calories are higher than that... depends what you put in it (and apparently where you check for deep-fried potatoes calories) :)