Jenna’s Queso to end all Quesos

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Preparation info
  • Makes about 8 cups ; Serves

    16

    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      25 min

Appears in
Today Loves Food: Recipes from America’s Favorite Kitchen

By The Today Show

Published 2025

  • About

Jenna ate a lot of queso growing up. “It’s basically considered a food group in Texas,” she says. When her mom wasn’t making Tex-Mex at home, they’d go out to eat Tex-Mex. Her signature queso recipe is a remix of the Bob Armstrong dip at Magnolia Cafe in Austin. It has everything—beef, cheese, tomatoes, green chiles, beans, and avocado—and couldn’t be easier to make. Just dump it all into a pot and within 10 minutes you’ll achieve ooey-goo