This Copycat Cafe Rio Queso recipe takes you LESS time to make at home than it does to drive to Cafe Rio and get some! It’s a perfect companion for all your football parties.
Difficulty: Level 1 (easy peasy)
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Super Queso for the Super Bowl! Because cheese and football just go together. Don’t they? Cheese and football. Football and cheese. It just works people, it just works. Don’t try to mess with the cheese and football mojo.
That being said. Let me tell you about that little pot of golden deliciousness. I accepted a challenge from a friend who really wanted a copycat Cafe Rio queso recipe. So, I went to Cafe Rio to get some nachos, because duh, nachos. And then I went home, ate all the nachos, and all the queso and then…I made more queso.
This perfectly creamy wonderfully processed cheese dip is full of salsa, jalapeños and 3 kinds of cheese. All. The. CHEESE. Now you just need one thing.
FOOTBALL!!!!
â…” cup half and half
4 oz velveeta
2 cups cheddar cheese – grated
2 oz cream cheese
1 cup salsa
¼ cup chopped jalapeños
¼ tsp cayenne pepper
¼ tsp cumin
¼ tsp chili powder
Tortilla chips for dipping
Step 1: Heat the half and half in a medium sauce pan.
Step 2: Add the velveeta, cheddar and cream cheese. Mix until all cheese are melted.
Step 3: Add in the salsa, jalapeños, cayenne, cumin and chili powder. Mix until combine.
Step 4: Serve immediately with your choice of chips
Yum! I love queso and chips!
Kari
http://www.sweetteasweetie.com
Me too! You definitely can’t go wrong with queso and chips!
Ohhh.. I completely understand your addiction to queso, because I myself have it! I could eat Mexican food daily, and not get sick of it. I live in CO now, and I’m surrounded by it, but no places had white queso dip like I had in Ohio, so I had to recreate it, and I was in heaven! 🙂 Will be trying this recipe!
-Cianna (LaMode365)
White queso dip sounds amazing!! I’m going to have to look into that for sure. Always looking for new queso recipes for my queso addiction 🙂
I love cheese dips for my chips! I love them especially when I am watching a really good movie with my family at home.
That sounds like the most ideal situation 🙂 Love it!
Soo good! Love cheese dips it can be so addicting!
I know right?! Soooo addicting. But so worth it 😉
I like that you added cayenne and chili powder. That sounds so good!
Thanks Julie!
That looks so yummy! I will definitely be trying out this recipe!
Thank you so much!
Oooo we love queso in our house! Thanks for sharing a new recipe to try.
We sure love it too! I hope you enjoy it.
These dips are totally my weakness! I could eat it all in one sitting by myself, literally!
Oh my gosh, I think I could too. They are just so addicting and delicious!
I know the recipe says serve immediately, but do you think this could be made one day and reheated the next?
Hi Stefanie! Yes I think it would be just fine to reheat the next day. It would probably be easiest to heat it in the microwave for short bursts and mixing it occasionally 🙂
No imagine if that cheddar is cascade raw or snake Creek medium from Heber Valley Artisan Cheese!
I was actually thinking that just this morning! Or perhaps the fuego rojo or verde cheeses…that would be amazing. Now you’ve got me thinking about all sorts of cheese sauces I can make with Heber Valley Cheeses!