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Best Nachos Recipe – Try These Easy, Incredible Crab Nachos Appetizer

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January 8, 2019 by Holly Clegg Leave a Comment

Tired of Meat Nachos? Unbeatable Best Nachos Recipe – Healthy Crab Nachos!

The best nachos recipe ever is Holly’s healthy Crab Nachos. This #1 bar food turns into a healthy easy recipe!  Who doesn’t like nachos and who doesn’t like delicious crab appetizer recipes?  Combine them together for Holly’s recipe for nachos topped with southwestern seasoned crabmeat and baked with cheese for an unbeatable crab nacho recipe from Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook. You will love these easy seafood easy nacho recipes because who has time to be in the kitchen?

Easy Nachos Recipes Can Be Healthy

You will want to sneak a few before you set them out because they will be all polished off before you know it! Tortilla chips baked with a splendid southwestern-seasoned crab mixture and smothered with cheese is quick to prepare and quicker to disappear.

You might think healthy nachos recipes don’t exist but they do!  With a few tweaks of reduced-fat cheese, simple seasonings and baked chips, my Easy Crab Nachos from Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook quickly become a easy nachos recipe favorite! You can also use whatever seafood you want to change it up a bit.

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Crab Nachos
Superbowl party or just a Friday night game night with friend, set these melt in your mouth healthy crab nachos out and you will be the hostess with the mostest! Looking for more healthy Super Bowl recipes? Make ahead the filling and refrigerate until ready to pop in the oven to bring out hot, incredible seafood southwestern nachos!
Servings 36 nachos
Ingredients
  • 6 dozen baked tortilla flour chips
  • 1/2 cup nonfat sour cream
  • 3 tablespoons light mayonnaise
  • 1/2 cup chopped green onions
  • 1 (4-ounce) can chopped green chilies drained
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 pound lump white, or canned crabmeat picked through for shells
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 cups reduced-fat, sharp cheddar or Mexican-blend cheese shredded
  • paprika
Servings 36 nachos
Ingredients
  • 6 dozen baked tortilla flour chips
  • 1/2 cup nonfat sour cream
  • 3 tablespoons light mayonnaise
  • 1/2 cup chopped green onions
  • 1 (4-ounce) can chopped green chilies drained
  • 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
  • 1 pound lump white, or canned crabmeat picked through for shells
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 2 cups reduced-fat, sharp cheddar or Mexican-blend cheese shredded
  • paprika
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to broil. Arrange tortilla chips in single layer on baking sheet.

  2. In bowl, combine sour cream, mayonnaise, green onions, green chilies, cumin. Fold in crabmeat, salt and pepper to taste.

  3. Divide mixture on chips. Sprinkle with cheese and paprika. Bake 6-8 minutes or until cheese is melted.
Nutritional Info

Per Serving: Calories 57, Calories from fat (%) 29, Fat (g) 2, Saturated Fat (g) 1, Cholesterol (mg) 14, Sodium (mg) 143, Carbohydrate (g) 5, Dietary Fiber (g) 0, Sugars (g) 0, Protein (g) 5, Diabetic Exchanges: 1/2 starch, 1/2 lean meat

Easy Cajun Recipes That Are Even Healthy Like Amazing Crab Nacho Recipe

Who would think the best nachos recipe could be healthy crab nachos? If you love crabmeat and are always looking for crab appetizer recipes then this is a must! You don’t have to give up your favorites, including junk food. This Crab Nachos recipe is one of the best crab appetizer recipes in Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook. A trim and terrific healthy nachos recipe!

In this cookbook, the focus is on giving you your favorite healthy Cajun recipes. All from Holly’s Louisiana kitchen and recipes include nutritional information.

Good For You Junk Food With Easy Dips Like Easy Nacho Recipes

If you’re looking up this recipe, you are a fan of dips and chips!  Of course, nachos top your list of favorite bar or junk food.  Holly has lots of healthy dip recipes like the popular Taco Dip which makes a perfect game watching recipe. Don’t leave out Chili Con Queso Recipe Gluten-Free Queso Dip without Velveeta!   Super Avocado Dip will also win you over for a cold dip recipe.  Whatever you’re preparing make it trim and terrific!

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Can You Use Different Types of Crab for Your Crab Appetizer Recipes?

We are so fortunate in Louisiana with all the available fresh seafood.  Our seafood is the best so of course these are incredible crab appetizer recipes!  We have fresh fish, Louisiana crawfish, crabmeat and oysters to create delectable seafood recipes. If you don’t have fresh crabmeat available, the second choice is the pasteurized crabmeat you find in a can. Of course, you can always use snow crab, king crab or imitation crabmeat for this crab nachos recipe. With the incredible southwestern crab mixture smothered with melted cheese, you will still have the best healthy crab nachos recipe! You can even use crawfish.  You have come to the right place for the best of healthy Cajun recipes!

Easy Nacho Recipes: Use Cuisinart or Hand Graters or Buy Grated Cheese!

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Have you ever used a rotary grater before? If you’re going to grate your own cheese, you will LOVE the way it shreds cheese. Team Holly usually buys pre-shredded reduced-fat cheese for ease, however.  This rotary grater is simple to use and shreds the best cheese, seriously! If you are shredding lots of cheese, pull out the Cuisinart.

Everyone needs to keep a grater on hand and there are different types of rotary cheese graters

Crawfish Nachos Recipe Makes Another Best Nachos Recipe

easy nacho recipes for best nachos recipe for crawfish nachos as good as my healthy crab nachos

Holly was playing around one day and had some crawfish tails so she decided why not use them in the crab nachos recipe.  Talk about good! Honestly, using the same filling it makes the best crawfish easy nachos recipe, have fun with it!

Everyone’s craving Crawfish Nachos recipe! Now, you get to decide which is the best nachos recipe–with crab or crawfish.  Or, what about a seafood combination and include both! Either way, you’ll love the creaminess and southwestern flavors. A little different than the traditional nacho recipe, but even better!

Enjoy Our Healthy Cajun Recipes Like Easy Nachos Recipes Wherever You Live!

If you’re a fan of Cajun, Louisiana or southern food, you’ll love the Gulf Coast Favorites cookbook because it includes this crab nacho recipe and all your favorite healthy Cajun recipes.  If you are a Louisiana crawfish fan, then, of course, check out healthy crawfish recipes on the healthy food blog too! Easy Crawfish Etouffee is one of the most popular easy crawfish etouffee recipes on Google–how about that! You can have healthy Louisiana recipes for all your classics!

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