Loaded vegan nachos, using any combination of store-bought or homemade toppings. Plant-based, healthy TexMex, perfect for a party, movie night or any night.
Prepare Chips, Queso, Pico and Sour Cream: If you're using store bought or already prepared ingredients, skip to "Assemble Nachos" section.To make your own, here are links to my easy recipes:
Heat cheese sauce in a saucepan over medium-low heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer until ready to assemble your nachos. Or, microwave in a microwave-safe bowl, stirring every 30-60 seconds.
Spread half of the tortilla chips over the bottom of a large empty sheet pan.
Sprinkle half of the black beans and purple cabbage over chips.
Drizzle half of hot vegan queso over chips.
Spread out remaining chips, black beans, purple cabbage and drizzle cheese sauce evenly across pan.
Top with pico de gallo, shredded lettuce, vegan sour cream, sliced avocado and sliced jalapeños. Serve immediately, family style.
Notes
If you're using a shredded vegan cheese, pre-heat your oven to 400F. Assemble both layers of chips, black beans and shredded cheese, then heat until melty in the oven. Then, add all remaining toppings and enjoy!Substitution Ideas:
Tortilla Chips: any kind of corn tortilla chip will work. You can make your own fat free tortilla chips in 15 minutes with corn tortillas. Or, if you have tostadas at home, you can break those into chips, too.
Vegan Queso Nacho Cheese Sauce: This is arguably the most important element of these Loaded Vegan Nachos. So, if you make anything from scratch, make this. However, you can use vegan shredded cheese instead, if you like. If you do this, definitely add some hot sauce or salsa to your nachos for heat.
Purple Cabbage: This is optional, but I really like the crunch. You could also use shredded green cabbage, if you like. Or don't use it at all. Or, add extra shredded lettuce.
Pico de Gallo: Instead of pico, add some chopped tomatoes, fresh cilantro/coriander and squeeze of lime juice to your nachos.
Vegan Sour Cream: You can omit the sour cream if you don't have any and can't make my homemade version. You can also use extra avocado, since it has a similar cooling affect.
Avocado: If you don't have any avocado, you can use extra sour cream. Or, just omit it.
Jalapeño: substitute any hot pepper you like. Or, hot sauce, like Cholula, Tabasco, sriracha, chile garlic sauce or hot pepper oil.
Sheet Pan: Instead of assembling on a sheet pan, you could make individual servings on plates.