Hank’s 2:11 A.M. Hillbilly Oven Nachos – It’s Cooking with Hank

Hank’s 2:11 A.M. Hillbilly Oven Nachos

What You’ll Need

Nacho cheese tortilla chips

1 pound hamburger

2 cups shredded cheese—or however much your heart can handle

Sour cream

Chopped onions

Diced maters

A baking sheet or oven-safe pan

Step-by-Step Instructions

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees. This gives you enough time to wonder why you’re making nachos at 2:11 in the morning.

Brown the hamburger in a skillet until it’s fully cooked with no pink remaining. Drain the grease—unless you’re trying to make these nachos load-bearing.

Spread a generous layer of nacho cheese tortilla chips across your baking sheet. Any chips eaten during this step are considered a “cook’s inspection.

Sprinkle the cooked hamburger evenly over the chips. Try to hit every chip, but don’t lose sleep over it—you’ve already handled that part.

Cover everything with shredded cheese. If you can still clearly see the hamburger, you haven’t added enough cheese.

Bake for 8 to 10 minutes, or until the cheese is melted, bubbly, and holding everything together better than your life at 2:11 A.M. 

Carefully remove the pan from the oven. It’s hot, and explaining a nacho-related injury at the emergency room would be embarrassing.

Add chopped onions, diced maters, and big spoonfuls of sour cream.

Eat them directly from the pan while standing over the kitchen sink. Fewer dishes means fewer witnesses.

There you have it: quick, fattening hillbilly oven nachos—the perfect meal when it’s too late for supper and way too early to admit it’s breakfast!