chile con queso

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English

A bowl of chile con queso served with tortilla chips as an appetizer in a Tex-Mex restaurant

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Etymology

From Spanish chile con queso (chili with cheese).

Noun

chile con queso (uncountable)

  1. A creamy sauce used as a dip, made from melted cheese and chili peppers.
    • 1984, Chet Flippo, David Bowie’s Serious Moonlight: The World Tour, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 148:
      Big Tony, who had been quietly puffing on his cigarillo at the door—no intruders here!—takes delivery of an impressive three-foot-high spray of flowers and very carefully walks over and deposits it square in the middle of a steam table, right in the rickety middle of hissing bowls of chile con queso and ominous-looking picante sauce.
    • 2003, David Baird, Edie Jarolim, Don Laine, Barb Laine, Eric Peterson, Neil E. Schlecht, Texas (Frommer’s), 2nd edition, New York, N.Y.: Wiley Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 12:
      Bursting the bubble of a perfectly puffed tortilla smothered in chile con queso is the moment where anticipation meets realization in the Tex-Mex experience.
    • 2012, Alison Cook, “Why Chile con Queso Matters”, in Brett Anderson, Sara Camp Arnold, John T. Edge, editors, Cornbread Nation 6: The Best of Southern Food Writing, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 7:
      If Tex-Mex is our state’s tribal nursery food—a truth that I hold to be self-evident—then chile con queso is our mother’s milk.

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