What Queso fundido means
Queso fundido is a Mexican main dish name of Spanish origin meaning "melted cheese". It is built from Spanish queso (cheese) and fundido (melted). It is pronounced KEH-soh foon-DEE-doh, and it is most associated with northern Mexico.
Called queso flameado when it reaches the table still flaming with spirit, a piece of restaurant theatre rather than a different dish.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The plated dishes, most named for a cooking method or a place. Cochinita pibil is pork cooked in a píib, the Maya earth oven. Barbacoa gave English the word barbecue. Chiles en nogada is named for the walnut sauce that covers it.
