Mexican Cheesecake (Savoury) Recipe

Posted by
Rate It!
Mexican Cheesecake (Savoury)
Add your photo!
Count
Calories
Minutes

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Oven dry the tortillas at 200F directly on an oven rack for 45 minutes, until very crackly crisp.
  2. When the tortillas are cool, grind very fine in a food processor.
  3. Place in an airtight bag until ready to use.
  4. May be done several days ahead.
  5. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
  6. Brush the inside of a 9-inch springform pan with melted butter and carefully coat with tortilla crumbs.
  7. Tap out excess and reserve for topping.
  8. In the bowl of an electric mixer or food processor, beat together the cheeses, sour cream, garlic, jalapenos, salsa, tomato paste, salt, pepper and eggs.
  9. Beat until smooth.
  10. Fold in the cilantro and beaten egg whites.
  11. Pour into prepared pan and sprinkle top evenly with remaining tortilla crumbs.
  12. Wrap bottom of pan in heavy aluminum foil to prevent leaking.
  13. Place pan inside a larger pan and pour in enough hot water to come up 1 inch.
  14. Bake for 70 minutes.
  15. Test center with a knife, which should come out clean.
  16. Cool in oven with door ajar.
  17. Remove sides from pan, but leave cake on the pan bottom.
  18. Place on platter.
  19. Surround with watercress.
  20. Place a bouquet of watercress on center of the cake.
  21. Garnish with crescents of avocado.
  22. Cut into wedges and serve with tomato salsa on the side.
  23. The cheesecake is best not refrigerated, so ideally, it should come out of the oven about 2 hours before serving time.
Kitchen-Friendly View

Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 414.27 Kcal (1734 kJ)
Calories from fat 295.92 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 32.88g 51%
Cholesterol 166.76mg 56%
Sodium 760.09mg 32%
Potassium 319.04mg 7%
Total Carbs 14.04g 5%
Sugars 3.59g 14%
Dietary Fiber 1.75g 7%
Protein 18.06g 36%
Vitamin C 5.6mg 9%
Iron 1.4mg 8%
Calcium 414.9mg 41%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 241.66 Kcal (1012 kJ)
Calories from fat 172.62 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 19.18g 51%
Cholesterol 97.28mg 56%
Sodium 443.38mg 32%
Potassium 186.11mg 7%
Total Carbs 8.19g 5%
Sugars 2.09g 14%
Dietary Fiber 1.02g 7%
Protein 10.53g 36%
Vitamin C 3.3mg 9%
Iron 0.8mg 8%
Calcium 242mg 41%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
Search recipes
by ingredients
Construct & Analyze
Your Recipe

Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 10.7
    Points
  • 11
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

Share Recipe

Get Your Recipe of Health!
Follow RecipeOfHealth on Facebook!
Scroll to top