SUPER BOWL EASY CHICKEN OR BEEF NACHOS

Steps:

• Hand shred chicken into a saucepan, making each piece small enough to fit on a tortilla chip.
• Add to saucepan taco seasoning mix, adding the prescribed amount of water on the taco seasoning packet.
• Heat chicken over a medium-low fire to make seasoning mingle with chicken.
• If desired, add hot sauce to chicken mixture.
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Put rack at highest level in oven.
• While chicken is cooking in taco seasoning, line a cookie sheet with aluminum foil.
• Spray foil lightly but evenly with non-stick spray.
• Line the cookie sheet with a layer of tortilla chips.
• Overlap chips if necessary.
• Sprinkle half of cheese over chips, coating evenly.
• Remove chicken from heat.
• Use a spoon to distribute chicken evenly over tortilla chips/cheese layer, making sure that some chicken is on each chip.
• If desired, drizzle any remaining taco seasoning sauce evenly over chips and chicken.
• Remember that more sauce makes the chips soggy, but some sauce may be desirable.
• If desired, place black olive and jalapeno pepper slices on each chip.
• Evenly sprinkle remainder of cheese over entire cookie sheet.
• Bake in oven on top rack for 10 minutes.
• At the end of 10 minutes, switch oven to"broil.
• "Broil nachos for 2 minutes using an electric oven, 1 minute using a gas oven.
• Watch nachos carefully so that they do not burn!
• Enjoy!
• Serve the sour cream and salsa in separate side dishes.
• Alternative directions#1: Spoon salsa evenly over cookie sheet just prior to placing nachos in oven.
• Alternative directions#2: Substitute browned ground beef for cooked chicken.