HEALTHY HOMEMADE NACHOS
Preparing some homemade nachos at home is easy, surely many times you have prepared a guacamole or any other healthy "dip" and you have missed a healthy snack to accompany it.
If it happened to you, I suggest you prepare these homemade paleo nachos, they don't have corn or wheat flour, they have a lot of flavor and they are crispy.
They are baked, not fried, so they have much less calories, are not greasy and are lighter.
Traditional nachos are prepared from a dough made with cornmeal and cooked fried in oil.
I prepare the nachos with a mixture of much healthier flours and seeds, I also add some ingredients that give flavor to the dough, such as onion powder and very fine lemon zest.
Coconut and tapioca flour, flax seeds, chia seeds, onion and garlic powder, paprika de la Vera, sea salt and a very interesting lemon touch that makes the dough even tastier.
Advantages of making homemade baked nachos:
- Much less calories, these nachos are baked, NOT fried.
- Lower Glycemic Index (GI), because we do NOT use corn flour that is characterized by its high GI, corn is a cereal rich in carbohydrates, especially starch.
- You control the ingredients. They do not carry additives, artificial colors or additives. Forget about monosodium glutamate and enjoy without fear.
- These nachos don't carry nuts, if you don't like them or have an allergy, you know, this is your snack!
HEALTHY HOMEMADE NACHOS
Ingredients
- 4 tbsp tapioca flour
- 1/2 cup coconut flour
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast
- 2 tbsp chia seeds
- 1/2 teaspoonful sea salt
- 1 teaspoonful paprika
- 1 teaspoonful cayenne pepper
- 1 teaspoonful onion powder
- 1 teaspoonful garlic powder
- 4 teaspoonful flax seeds
- lemon or lime zest (half lemon zest)
- 4 tbsp water
- 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Elaboration step by step
- Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and knead with your hands until you get a compact ball. If you need a little more water, add little by little, but with these 4 scoops it should be enough.
- Preheat oven to 200ºC
- On a baking paper crush the dough.
- Put another baking paper on top and flatten the dough with a rolling pin, make it as thin as possible.
- Cut it into triangles before baking.
- Bake the dough on a rack at 180 ° C for 10 minutes
- Remove the dough and remove the pieces from the edges so they do not burn and continue baking the pieces of the center for another 5 minutes.
- Let cool and enjoy them with a guacamole, with pico de gallo or with the healthy dip you like best. 🙂
Notes
- With these amounts, you will get between 30 and 35 nachos, calculate that this amount is ideal for 4 people. With some 8 nachos for each one is more than enough, keep in mind that this snack is more satiating than the typical commercial, you will enjoy it much more, without leaving you any bad taste in the mouth or that terrible feeling of heaviness after consume it
APERETIF, PALEO, WITHOUT CEREALS, GLUTEN FREE, FLOUR FREE, LACTOSE FREE, SNACKS
Jose
Very good They like the whole family. Intense flavor but without glutamate or excess. A great idea and excellent to share.
missblasco
Thank you very much!! 😉
Alfonso
Thanks for this recipe, it's great !!
to use your same measurements could you tell me if a tablespoon corresponds to 1 tbsp and a teaspoon to 1tsp
thanks!
missblasco
Hi Alfonso, indeed, 1 tbsp is a tablespoon, and 1 tsp is a teaspoon. I'm going to check the recipe box because it should put "tbsp" and "teaspoon". Thanks for your comment. Greetings! 😉
The nachos came out delicious. Thank you very much. I put Cda. and cta. a greeting
The nachos came out delicious. Thank you very much… I put Cda. and cta.
Greetings, Carmen
missblasco
I'm glad you liked the nachos. Greetings! 😉
Laura
Hello! Incredible recipe but it is very difficult for me to get the coconut flour, could it be made without it or substituted by some other?
missblasco
Yes, you can substitute it for finely ground almonds. Cheers! 😉
María
How good does this recipe look! But I have a question: is tapioca flour the same as tapioca starch? Thanks a lot
missblasco
Hi Maria, thank you very much for your comment. Answering your question, yes, tapioca or cassava starch is the same as “flour”, and it is one of the ingredients I use in this recipe.
A hug! 😉
María
Thanks for your answer. It's that I always have doubts because somewhere I've read that it's not the same, but then when I see recipes I get the feeling that the term is used interchangeably. Well, I have tapioca starch at home, so I'm going to try it 😁
Rosana
Where is it obtained and what function does nutritional yeast have... and if I can replace the coconut flour... with another cereal... eg rice flour and another
Coconut flour is sweet?
Thank you
missblasco
Hi Rosana,
I put the nutritional yeast in this recipe to give it a cheese flavor, but you could not put it, it is not an essential ingredient.
It is available in herbalists and food stores specializing in vegan and vegetarian diets, it is usually used as a non-dairy substitute for cheese.
Cheers! 😉