Homemade Chili Sauce

I have a recipe for slow cooker posole that requires only pork, hominy, and chili sauce, which I assume is a bottle of Heinz. Does anybody have a good recipe for homemade chili sauce?

Pie Lady wrote:I have a recipe for slow cooker posole that requires only pork, hominy, and chili sauce, which I assume is a bottle of Heinz. Does anybody have a good recipe for homemade chili sauce?

Why not examine other posole recipes and compare the ingredients to your recipe to determine what is being used to provide the "chili sauce" component?

Here's one (assuming you are going for the red variety).

Pie Lady wrote:I have a recipe for slow cooker posole that requires only pork, hominy, and chili sauce, which I assume is a bottle of Heinz. Does anybody have a good recipe for homemade chili sauce?

I think you probably want something like a New Mexican / Northern Mexican red chile sauce, with reconstituted dried pods:

http://www.chow.com/recipes/11143-red-chile-sauce

You can make this without tomatoes as well; the sauce I make for enchiladas is just the dried pods, onions, and seasonings simmered and pulsed. The acidity and sugars in bottled sauces are not going to be right for pozole.

I agree--posole with 'chili sauce' is unappetizing. I used roasted dried chili pods reconstituted with stock (I like pork) and pureed, but not the bottled stuff--which to me is nothing more than horseradish and ketchup.

bean wrote:I agree--posole with 'chili sauce' is unappetizing. I used roasted dried chili pods reconstituted with stock (I like pork) and pureed, but not the bottled stuff--which to me is nothing more than horseradish and ketchup.

Sure you're not thinking of cocktail sauce? I don't think chili sauce contains horseradish. It's more like ketchup with onions and garlic.

Can't speak for the OP, of course, but I don't think so. I know the Heinz "chili sauce" whereof she speaks (it's part of a baked bean recipe in our house); why it's called chili sauce has always been beyond me, but it's not cocktail sauce.

I think imsscott meant bean was talking about cocktail sauce. I'm talking about Heinz Chili Sauce. The recipe only asked for "chili sauce" so I assume that's what it's referring to.

Pie Lady wrote:I think imsscott meant bean was talking about cocktail sauce. I'm talking about Heinz Chili Sauce. The recipe only asked for "chili sauce" so I assume that's what it's referring to.

Yikes, I doubt it. I've eaten a lot of posole (I lived in the Southwest) and I can guarantee they don't mean Heinz Chili Sauce...a grown up verison of ketchup often used as a base for cocktail sauce--just add horseradish.

If I had to liken Posole to something else, I'd say it's a hominy-based white chili... think chilie peppers, not tomato sauce. Posole is rich with chunks of pork and, depending on your preference, gobs of red or green chilies.

Diannie wrote:

Pie Lady wrote:I think imsscott meant bean was talking about cocktail sauce. I'm talking about Heinz Chili Sauce. The recipe only asked for "chili sauce" so I assume that's what it's referring to.

Yikes, I doubt it. I've eaten a lot of posole (I lived in the Southwest) and I can guarantee they don't mean Heinz Chili Sauce...a grown up verison of ketchup often used as a base for cocktail sauce--just add horseradish.

If I had to liken Posole to something else, I'd say it's a hominy-based white chili... think chilie peppers, not tomato sauce. Posole is rich with chunks of pork and, depending on your preference, gobs of red or green chilies.

Agreed. As hinted above, chili sauce means something totally different in the Southwest. See linked recipes.

Use the homemade green salsa from Harvest Time (2632 W. Lawrence) Throw in the slow cooker with the pork and hominy. Delicious!

Pie Lady wrote:I'm talking about Heinz Chili Sauce. The recipe only asked for "chili sauce" so I assume that's what it's referring to.

Depends on who wrote the recipe. If it was Sandra Lee then maybe they actually mean Heinz chili sauce, pretty much everyone else, a sauce made from chilies.

Ah. In that case, it is indeed Heinz...this recipe may as well be from her.