Chili Verde - Our First Ever

During our western trip this fall, we ate a lot of chili verde and brought home some roasted Hatch chiles to make the delicious concoction in our kitchen.  I’d saved Lea Ann’s recipe  from Highlands Ranch Foodie and even froze the roasted chiles in packages of 15 to use with it.  Since we’ve eaten Lea Ann’s cooking, we knew we didn’t want to mess with her recipe much, but since I was BBQing, we decided to use my smoked pork (Bev’s idea) for the meat and Bev found some smoked pork broth in the freezer so I’ve changed from Lea Ann's Hatch Green Chili - Colorado Style to BBQ Style.  Please check her site for the original recipe and great photos.

Hatch Green Chili, BBQ Style – slightly adapted from Highlands Ranch Foodie

Ingredients:

1 T. bacon drippings

1 T. olive oil

2½ lbs smoked pork butt (cooked weight)

1 onion chopped

5 garlic cloves peeled and minced

1 quart smoked pork broth (homemade)

1 T. salt

1½ T. coriander

1 t. mild Chamayo Chili Powder (we brought some from Colorado)
½ t. cayenne 

2 t. of your favorite chili powder (my homemade)

1½ T. Mexican Oregano
½ t. cumin 
1 t. dried cilantro 

14.5 ounces can chopped tomato, undrained

15 roasted chile peppers chopped (or 3 seven oz cans chopped peppers)

½ cup water 

¼ cup cornstarch

Instructions:

1. Heat the oil and the bacon drippings in a Dutch oven, add the onion and cook until soft, about 10 minutes . Add the garlic and cook until fragrant.

2. Add the shredded meat, tomatoes, broth, salt, coriander, oregano, tomatoes, chile powders and chiles. Bring to a boil and then simmer on low for 2 hours.

3. In a bowl combine water and cornstarch and stir until combined and towards the end of cooking, add this to thicken the soup.
4. When it was nearly done, we decided a little cilantro and cumin would suit our taste buds.

I ate a bowl of it with warm flour tortillas and Bev ate hers over scalloped potatoes and I thought mine was off the hook good as did she - Thanks Lea Ann.

But we were really making it to serve over things, such as burritos which I’m confident will be blogged about later.

Photos best if enlarged by clicking on them.

Have a great day and thanks for stopping by Almost Heaven South.

Larry

12/27/13 meal date