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I’ll admit something to you all that not too many people know about me: I still eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

Like… a lot of them.

At least a few a week.

And much like a child, I only use creamy peanut butter and it must be grape jelly. Don’t even try to give me any of that raspberry or strawberry fancy business.

Crusts are okay though.

Sometimes, when I’m out of bread, I improvise with my PB&J situation. I’ve slathered PB&J on all kinds of random stuff.

Pitas? Check.

Tortillas? Check.

Triscuits? Check.

One day when I was out of all of these things, I tried it out with tortilla chips. The salty and sweet combo of these peanut butter jelly nachos worked out better than expected so I figured I would share the idea.

Peanut Butter and Jelly Nachos

by Nick

Serves:

Serves 2-4

Prep Time:

10 mins

Total Time:

15 mins

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Peanut Butter Jelly Nachos are a fun and delicious way to serve peanut butter and jelly. Ditch the bread and break out the tortilla chips! So yummy!

Ingredients

1 cup peanut butter

1 cup jelly, mixed kinds is fine

1 apple, cored and diced

1/4 cup roasted and salted peanuts

Tortilla chips

Instructions

1) Add peanut butter to a small pot with about a tablespoon of water. Heat over low heat, stirring regularly.

2) Add jellies to a separate small pot with a tablespoon of water to loosen the jelly. Heat over low heat, stirring regularly.

3) Lay out tortilla chips on a large serving platter.

4) Don’t bring the peanut butter or jelly to a boil or simmer. Just heat it until it relaxes and is pourable.

5) Drizzle peanut butter over tortilla chips, followed by warm jelly. You may not need all of it.

6) Top with chopped apples and whole peanuts. Serve immediately!

Peanut Butter Jelly Nachos

Basics

I like this peanut butter jelly nachos recipe a lot because it’s really simple, very fun to serve, and gives you an opportunity to use all the little bottoms of random jelly that I know you have in your fridge.

I just combined a few different jellies together for my version and it worked great.

While you could just drizzle PB&J on chips and end up with something pretty tasty, there’s an opportunity to toss on some toppings.

I went with a chopped apple to give it some crunch and extra fruitiness.

Also a handful of salted peanuts adds another layer of textures.

I’m sure you could use a lot of different toppings for these, but I kept this version pretty simple.

Cooking the Sauces

Peanut butter and jelly doesn’t exactly drizzle well.  It spreads well which is great if you are using bread or something.  But nobody wants to spread dozens of chips with tiny amounts of peanut butter and jelly.

So, it helps to make a kind of sauce with the stuff.

Basically, I just heated up my peanut butter and jelly separately in a few small pots. I added in about a tablespoon of water to each just to loosen them up a bit.  As they heat they will become more liquid and easier to work with.

Don’t bring these to a boil or anything.  Just use a nice low heat and when they are hot and easy to pour, they are done.

Once you have your PB&J ready, just lay out a nice layer of tortilla chips on a serving platter and drizzle each sauce over the chips.

Doesn’t get much easier than that!

Then just sprinkle on your toppings and you’re ready to rock and roll.

As with real nachos, the perfect chip has just a little bit of everything.

If your kids are PB&J fans, give these a shot next time. They are quick to make and you could feed a crowd of hungry kids with one platter of these peanut butter jelly nachos.

Or you could just horde them for yourself like I did…