Tostitos cheesy pasta sauce

I don't normally buy dipping sauces for my chips, but this was on sale recently, so I picked it up, only to realize I didn't have tortilla chips at home.

Instead we experimented a bit and found it great as a spread. It has bold flavour in even just a little bit of sauce.

The next step was to try it with pasta and similar noodles, and it turned out wonderfully. The dip is already quite tasty, and we found that just a tablespoon was very generous for a bowl of pasta.

But what really made this a winning pasta sauce was the sticky consistency. It might seem somewhat on the watery side, but the stickiness means that it easily coats the pasta and doesn't just drip off and end up at the bottom of your dish. Mixed well, every bite of pasta will have this delicious sauce.

For a very simple meal, we boiled some pasta, mixed this sauce in, and accompanied it with some sausage chunks.

We also like a bit more spicy heat, so we first put a tablespoon of this sauce on our plate and stirred in in a bit of chili. Then in goes the pasta to be mixed well, then a few chunks of sausage.

Simple, fast, tasty. Give it a try!

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