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Cheesiest Cheese Crisp with Chipotle Ranch Drizzle

Cheesiest Cheese Crisp with Chipotle Ranch Drizzle

The cheese crisp is the perfect comfort food. A cross between a Mexican pizza an an open-faced quesadilla, Southern Arizona restaurants started selling the dish more than 50 years ago and it's become a staple of our local Sonoran style cuisine.

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Jackie Alpers
May 31, 2018
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Cheesiest Cheese Crisp with Chipotle Ranch Drizzle
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Southern Arizona restaurants started selling cheese crisps more than 50 years ago and it's become a staple of our local Sonoran style cuisine. This is a no-carb variation of the cheese crisp recipe in my Taste of Tucson cookbook. 

I ditched the tortilla and came up with this super-cheesy, updated version of the dish that is grain-free, and thus gluten-free and low-carb as well. Parmesan is a hard cheese that crisps when melted, replacing the flour based tortilla.

Here is my all-cheese version topped with green chiles, cilantro and a chipotle ranch drizzle. Serve the chipotle ranch on the side as a dipping sauce if you don't have a squeeze bottle available. I used a blend of jack, cheddar, and queso quesadilla for the Mexican cheese blend.

Looking for the traditional flour-tortilla-based Tucson Sonoran style cheese crisp? Get the recipe HERE.

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