Your family will love this recipe, it is easy to make, if a bit faffy, and it is really tasty.

Ingredients

• 2 pita breads
• 1 cup re-hydrated soya mince
• 1 medium onion diced
• 1/2 red pepper diced
• 1 tin whole tomatoes in juice
• 4 cloves garlic roughly chopped
• 1 tbs tomato sauce
• 1 tbs chutney
• 1 tbs worcester sauce
• olive oil
• salt and pepper to taste
• herbs & spices to taste – I used chicken spice, paprika, origanum, red chilli flakes, and a teaspoon of curry.

For the topping:

• 250g grated cheese
• 1 round feta cheese diced
• 1 ripe avocado pear
• 2 tomatoes diced
• 1/2 lemon

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees Celcius
2. Cut the pita breads open into two rounds by sticking a knife into the bread and cutting around the edges
3. Cut the pita rounds in half, then again, and again until you have little triangles resembling corn chips
4. Drizzle a bit of olive oil into an oven pan and put the pita triangles in the pan, drizzle a bit more olive oil over it and put it in the oven to crisp – about 15 minutes – taking care not too over-brown them
5. Next, put a good glug of olive oil into a pan and fry the onion in it for about 5 minutes, then add the re-hydrated soy mince and fry for another 5 minutes or until the water evaporates
6. Add the tin of tomatoes and all of the spices, tomato sauce, chutney and worcester sauce.
7. Cook for another 40 minutes on low heat for the flavours to develop
8. Once done, remove from the stove and let it cool for about half an hour
9. Next, arrange the pita triangles on 2 plates, then spoon enough of the soy mince on it to make a generous helping
10. Divide the feta cheese between the two plates and place it on top of the soy mince
11. Sprinkle the grated cheese over the mince
12. Bake in the oven for about 10 minutes until the cheese is melted and bubbling
13. While the nachos are cooking in the oven, peel and core the avo and squeeze the juice of the 1/2 lemon over it, the mash it finely with a fork
14. Once the nachos are out of the oven, top with the diced tomatoes and the avo.

Makes 2 generous helpings of Nachos

Tip: if you don’t want to go to the lengths of making your own nacho chips, you can use the kind that you can buy from a store. Also, if you like your nachos really hot and spicy, add more chilli flakes and maybe a bit of cayenne pepper to it.

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