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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Melissa C
This is my kind of appetizer! So incredibly good and easy to make! I loved every bite.
Tanya M
This is a great treat for game days or movie nights. Overall, it’s a mouthwatering dip and a delicious culinary experience. Thanks for sharing the recipe, Beth!
Beth Pierce
The pleasure is all mine, Tanya!
Heather
This sounds like a great alternative to nachos! I must try this recipe, my neighbor managers a Mexican restaurant and gave us a huge box of chips!
Beth Pierce
That sounds like a plan, Heather! Enjoy!
Karey P
I have always wanted to learn how to make this! It was hot, melty, delicious, and flavorful. My hubby and I loved it.
Yasmine
This is so good. I love nachos with toppings so much as a treat. This is delightfully cheesy and very delicious leaving us all dipping in and wanting more of it!
Shelley F
The ooey, gooey melted cheese combined with savory chorizo and flavorful toppings is a match made in heaven. This is a must make for anyone that loves Mexican dishes.
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Shelley! So glad that you liked it!
Benjamine B
This stuff is the shizzle for rizzle, as Snoop would say. I made it last night, and I ate almost the entire thing. I just could not stop!
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Benjamin! So glad that you liked it!
Adalina
I made your Queso Fundido recipe for a movie night with friends and it disappeared in minutes! The melty cheese with chorizo was irresistible.
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Adalina! I am so glad that you like the queso fundido!
Sandra Bell
This is the perfect dip! The chorizo really gave it a lot of amazing flavors! So good!
Erin
I recently tried this and it was an irresistible dip! This will be on repeat for movie night!
april
Mexican food is my favorite. Cheese dip is a must for my family. We are definitely going to try this.
Monidipa Dutta
Your description of Queso Fundido is absolutely mouthwatering! The way you describe the melted cheese, flavorful ingredients, and the perfect combination of textures makes it impossible not to crave this delicious dish. I can’t wait to give your recipe a try!
Marysa
I have had this is a few times in restaurants, and would love to try making it at home. Looks delicious! I will have to make this with my daughter.
Ivan
We love Mexican food at home and this is delicious dip. Nothing better than chips and ooey gooey cheese topped with spices.
Maria Azanha
My diet is officially out of the window! Such a great recipe! In Portugal we actually have something very similar but with sausage it´s called: Queijo Fundido 😉
Ivana Mearns
Definitely a five star recipe, so fresh and tasty, with delicious mexican cheese and chilantro. The perfect treat for summer or any other time of the year.
Beth Pierce
Thanks, Ivana! I am so glad that you liked it!