Queso Fundido is a Mexican dip with ooey, gooey melted cheese, chorizo, spices, and your choice of toppings served with tortilla chips or flour tortillas. It is absolutely delicious and so flavor-packed.
Crazy Delicious Queso Fundido
Queso Fundido is a beautiful hot mess and one of our favorite dips. It is a cinch to make and can be prepped in advance of your celebration. You will find it difficult to stop eating this incredibly delicious dip. I like to top this cheesy dip with sun-ripened tomatoes, minced red onion, and fresh chopped cilantro. However, you can also add thinly sliced jalapeno, guacamole, or Pico de Gallo.
I like to serve this for game day or movie night with walking tacos, funnel cakes, and orange julius. Can you say delicious?
Ingredients for Queso Fundido
To make this recipe, you will need beef or pork chorizo, onion, garlic, Pepper Jack cheese, Oaxaca cheese (Mexican melting cheese), and toppings like salsa, red onion, and cilantro.
Recipe Tips
- Feel free to top the Queso Fundido dip with whatever you like best. You could use diced tomatoes, minced jalapenos, chopped cilantro, diced avocado, green onions, black olives, salsa, or serrano peppers.
- For over-the-top flavor, add fresh roasted poblano or Anaheim peppers when in season.
- In a pinch, substitute 2 (4-ounce) cans of green chilies for the fresh peppers.
- Bake the dish just until the cheese is melted. Overcooking it can make it hard on the top, making it difficult to eat with chips or to spoon it onto tortillas.
- Serve this dish immediately while the cheese is hot and melted.
Frequently Asked Questions
Mexican chorizo is a spicy ground uncooked sausage available in pork or beef. I usually find it in the cooler with the other ground sausages or the cooler with the Mexican cheeses and tortillas.
Oaxaca cheese, Pepper Jack cheese, Monterey Jack cheese, queso asadero (also known as queso quesadilla), and Mozzarella cheese are great melting cheeses for this recipe.
Queso fundido is best enjoyed as soon as it is prepared. However, if needed, it can be reheated in the oven at 250 degrees or the microwave at 40% power for 30-second intervals until warm, stirring occasionally. Do not put a skillet in the microwave. Transfer the dip to a microwave-safe dish.
Queso Fundido Recipe
Ingredients
- 9 ounces beef or pork Mexican chorizo
- 1 small yellow onion chopped
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- 6 ounces Pepper Jack Cheese shredded
- 6 ounces Oaxaca Cheese shredded Mexican melting cheese
- 3/4 cup diced tomato or salsa
- 1 tablespoon minced red onion
- 1/4 cup chopped cilantro
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Cook the chorizo in an ovenproof skillet or cast iron skillet over medium heat. Break it up with a spoon as it cooks. After a few minutes, add the onion and cook until the onion is soft and the chorizo is crumbly and cooked through. Reduce the heat to low and add the minced garlic. Cook for 1 minute while stirring. Move the sausage mixture to several layers of paper towels to drain the excess fat.
- Sprinkle half of the cheese in the bottom of a casserole dish, or use the same skillet you cooked the chorizo and onion in if it is oven-safe. Add the chorizo mixture on top of the cheese reserving 2 tablespoons for the top. Top with the remaining cheese.
- Bake for 5-6 minutes or just until the cheese is melted. Over baking it can leave it hard on the top, making it difficult to eat with chips or spoon onto tortillas.
- Top with diced tomatoes, minced red onion, chopped cilantro, and the reserved chorizo. Serve the dish immediately with tortilla chips or warm tortillas.
Notes
- Feel free to top the Queso Fundido dip with whatever you like best. You could use diced tomatoes, minced jalapenos, chopped cilantro, diced avocado, green onions, black olives, salsa, or serrano peppers.
- For over-the-top flavor, add fresh roasted poblano or Anaheim peppers when in season.
- In a pinch, substitute 2 (4-ounce) cans of green chilies for the fresh peppers.
- Bake the dish just until the cheese is melted. Overcooking it can make it hard on the top, making it difficult to eat with chips or to spoon it onto tortillas.
- Serve this dish immediately while the cheese is hot and melted.
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Marysa
We have had this on trips to Mexico, but we have actually never had it at home. It would be fun to make it at home and have a Mexican food themed night.
Jasmine Martin
Queso is so tasty. I am definitely going to have to make this for my family soon. This looks delicious!
Talya Stone
Oh my this looks like one fabuloulsy oozy and cheesy dish. Now this is one hot mess I would definitely say yes to!
Annette,
All that cheese! Yum!! We loved it.
Rosey
OH wow, now this is something my family can get behind. What a great way to up the ante on the queso.
Tammy
Ooh looks absolutely delicious! 😀 I wish I could dip right in! I’ve never made queso fundido before but perfect for game day weekends!
Luna S
Holy cow, this looks so good! I love dishes like this.
Rhian Westbury
You had me with the word gooey cheese. This was so good, pure comfort food x
Yeah Lifestyle
As soon as I saw this I had to try it. This is really tasty, the gooey cheese is delicious with the spices in. Will make this more often.
Beth Pierce
Thanks! So glad that you liked it!
Home Decor Ideas
omg!!! I’ve never heard of Queso Fundido, was I even living!!! This looks soooo good!!! So good!
Kristyn
Oh my…I have found my weakness!! This queso fundido is so addicting, cheesy, & so flavorful!! You will not be disappointed if you try it!
Agnieszka Carpenter
That melty cheese! Perfect recipe for Cinco de Mayo next month! Cheers
Biana
Yum! This is a perfect appetizer to serve with some chips or veggies!
Jo
All I can say is this was amazing! My family loved it!
Carrie Robinson
Oh yum! Pass the chips! I want to dig right in. 🙂
Lindsay
I’m going to the store right now, because I HAVE to make this and eat it right now. It looks amazing!!