Nachos without the dairy....say what?!?

Here are the "Loaded Nachos" from Happy Herbivore. I'm not going to lie, I was really hesitant about them because they are funky to think about and to top it off the cheese sauce smelled funny to me so I pretty much thought it was going to be horrific. However, after we tried it both of us actually really liked it. You really do feel like you are eating nachos and it's sooooo much better for you. We were stuffed!

Ingredients:

2 large tomatoes
1 bunch green onions
tortilla chips (she recommends corn chips though)
1 1/2 canned black beans
1 cup frozen corn, thawed (or canned corn would be just fine)
1, 4 oz can sliced black olives, drained
1, 5 oz can sliced jalapeños, drained
1/4 c sour cream--she has a vegan recipe for sour cream, but let's be honest. I just used the regular stuff since everything else was so healthy. Haha.

Cheese sauce Ingredients:
1 c non-dairy milk (we use rice milk)
1/3 c nutritional yeast (the stuff that was the bane of my existence. I found it in bags at Sprouts/Sunflower Market)
3 Tbs rolled oats (I'm not really sure what "rolled" oats means, but I just used regular oatmeal)
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1/2 tsp. ground cumin
1/4 c. salsa
2 tsp. yellow miso (didn't want to bother seeking that out, so I did without it)
2 tsp. cornstarch
1 tsp. lemon juice (optional)


Here are the instructions for the cheese sauce:
Combine all ingredients in a food processor (I used our blender) and blend until mostly all combined. Transfer to a saucepan and heat it up on medium heat, stirring frequently. It will start to thicken and get a cheesy consistency. Easy, huh?!


Now that you have the sauce, here's how you do the nachos:

Seed and dice tomatoes and set aside. Slice green onions and set aside. Fill your serving dish half way with chips, then add half the corn and half of the beans. Add one more layer of chips, followed by the remainder of the beans and the corn. Then add the olives, jalapeños, and half of the tomatoes. Pour the nacho sauce over top of all of it and garnish with the remaining tomatoes and the green onions. Add some sour cream if you're using it. DIG IN!