Leah Colins’ Smoked/Grilled Nachos – worth the work

https://www.seriouseats.com/grilled-loaded-nachos-recipe-11726634

I am a big fan of Leah Colins' recipes on the site, and so I had to try this one out. It's a very involved process for nachos, and I am picky about nachos, but wow these were great. To me there were 3 components that stood out:

1. The lasagna-like construction. I was skeptical but it was amazing, everything melted through perfectly.
2. The fact that they are smoked and not just baked-on-the-grill. This might have been a placebo effect but I thought I could taste it.
3. The creation of a kind of bean-veggie mix. The mix is distributed over the nachos rather than placing one ingredient at a time, and it does wonders for distributing the flavor around. I truly didn't have any underwhelming nacho bites.

I recommend using very thick tortilla chips for this (often advertised on the bag as "gruesos" aka thick, if you are getting them at a Mexican market). Casa Sanchez is a great brand but we don't have that here so I went with La Flor del Valle.