Bowl o' Green??! Recipes, pls!!

I just happen to have come into possession of a couple of pounds of Hatch greens. Anyone have any secret recipes they'd care to share with me (and all the other interested lurkers : ) ?

I'm all ears, so to say...

Geo

I don't have a green chile recipe, but I sort of made up a green chile recipe when I lived in denver. I just use pork shoulder and make a tomato and green chile based stew with lots of cumin, cayenne pepper, and ground dried chiles. We eat it with warm flour tortillas.

This recipe came from a NG or Mexcian cooking email list I'm on. I have not tried it, but its at the top of my green chile recipes to try.

Arizona Cindi's Green Chili-Beef Burros barbeque, beef, grilled, main dish, Mexican southwestern
2 lb brisket; smoked and shredded
2 pints kentucky fried chicken gravy
6 to 8 large green chiles; roasted, peeled;very large chopped
1 pint red salsa
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 teaspoon garlic; minced
*** For burros you will also need ***
1/2 cup cilantro (fresh); chopped flour tortillas monterrey jack or longhorn cheese; shredded In a large sauce pan, add shredded brisket, green Chiles, KFC gravy, pepper, and garlic but HOLD the salt until later. You will want to taste the recipe after all the other ingredients are mixed in because many store bought gravies and salsas are salty already and the amount of extra salt varies greatly.Add red salsa until the mixture is slightly runny.
Let this mixture simmer on very low heat for 30 minutes to an hour until some of the liquid cooks off and mixture thickens slightly. Now taste and add salt and more pepper if needed.
Recipe notes:
#1: Don't try to use corned beef brisket for this. We smoke our own briskets and always have some in our freezer. Smoked brisket is best but if you don't have smoked brisket, you can cook a beef roast with some onions, salt, and pepper in a crock pot or pressure cooker until it is falling apart tender and shred it. Throw the onions into the chili mix too if you use them to cook with the roast.
#2: If you don't have a Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) handy to buy the gravy, you can use other store bought varieties or make your own. We've done both but the green chili never tastes half as good as when made with KFC gravy. It is still very good but not as good.
#3. For some reason the recipe tastes better when you use store bought red salsa also. We've used our home made canned salsa before, but again, the recipe just is better with store bought.
Notes:
This green chili makes the best burros I've ever eaten in my life. To use it for burros, after the mixture thickens, heat the flour tortillas either by rotating them on top of a grill over coals or the burner of a gas stove or in a microwave until soft and workable. Place some cheese and some of the meat mixture and a pinch of cilantro in the middle of the tortilla, wrap and fold the ends over. You can add more cheese and meat mixture over the top if you like.
These are best eaten with a fork since they are too runny to pick up.
The KFC gravy sounds wild but trust us, it really makes the difference in this being just good to it being a great taste. Slow smoked brisket is the best meat to use but tender cooked roast can be used (but will not taste anywhere near as good as smoked brisket).

These are the best burros I've ever eaten.

Contributor: Cindi L.

Oh yes! Oh yesssss! I can about taste it now! I'm in KC so there's *always* a brisket around here somewhere, typically in my freezer.

Wonder what it would be like with pork (and suitable modifications) ??

Tnx Bruce!

Geo

Pardon, what are "hatch" greens?

Christopher Gordon wrote:Pardon, what are "hatch" greens?

http://www.nmchili.com/
http://www.hatch-chile.com/

Geo wrote:Oh yes! Oh yesssss! I can about taste it now! I'm in KC so there's *always* a brisket around here somewhere, typically in my freezer.

Wonder what it would be like with pork (and suitable modifications) ??

Tnx Bruce!

Geo

Don't forget the KFC gravy!

Says Bruce:

"Don't forget the KFC gravy!"

Oh, you'd best believe I won't! Sometimes these sorts of things are unique. For example, I stop in at Popeye's every oncet in a while, just to get the red beans and rice, which I simply can't seem to duplicate at home. (Probably not enough grease!!)

Geo

The best thing you can do with roasted Hatch chiles is to eat them in a warm tortilla with melted cheese.

Kit

kit wrote:The best thing you can do with roasted Hatch chiles is to eat them in a warm tortilla with melted cheese.

Kit

My order ships this week. I hope it gets here by Friday.

Garry Howard recommended this source for already roasted frozen chiles.
https://www.dagiftbasket.com/store/catalog/default.php

Although the aroma of roasting chiles is won derful and heralds the onset of fall for me, it is a tedious chore.

Kit

Kit says:
"Although the aroma of roasting chiles is won derful and heralds the onset of fall for me, it is a tedious chore. "

Agreed.

I once built a 5-gal tumbler that I could suspend over my Weber, which I loaded up with oak logs. I could do 25 lbs at a time, and then clean them with my garden hose. Made for a lot of work; good party, tho', I must say. I'm older now, and wiser (not to mention lazier): I let someone else do it for me.

Geo

You rinsed off the chiles? Heresy! All that carmelized sugar down the drain. Freeze them with the skins on in packets of 8 or so. They peel much easier after freezing and you don't lose all that chile juice.

Kit

Like I said, I'm older and wiser now.

Geo