Chile Verde La Frontera Style Food

EASY LA VICTORIA CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• Cut pork into 1/2-inch cubes; season cubes with salt and pepper.
• In a large, heavy pan with lid, brown the cubes well in oil and melted butter.
• Add the onion and garlic and sauté for about 5 minutes, then drain the fat from the pan.
• Add the remaining ingredients, cover, and simmer for at least 90 minutes, stirring frequently; add more water (or broth or beer) during cooking if necessary to achieve desired sauce texture.
• Makes 4 to 6 servings.

CHILE VERDE (LA FRONTERA STYLE) RECIPE - (4.5/5)

Steps:

• Cut the pork into small chunks. Husk the tomatillos, de-stem them, and cut them into large chunks. Cut the jalapenos, Anaheim peppers, and Serrano peppers into large chunks. Put tomatillos, peppers, and cilantro in a food processor and puree them. Add the can of green chilis, diced tomatos, and tomato sauce to the food processor. Continue blending until the mixture is a consistant color. Pour the vegetable puree into a crock-pot. Add the chicken broth, oregano, cumin, and chili powder. Turn the crock pot on high and cover. Dust the pork with flour, salt and pepper. Heat 2 T olive oil, shortening, or lard in a frying pan. Add the garlic and onions, saute until the onions are tender. Add the pork, brown it thoroughly. Pour the entire pan's contents (including drippings) into the crock pot. Cook in the crock pot on high for 2 hours. After 2 hours, reduce the heat to medium or low and cook for at least another 2 hours. For very tender pork, cook on low heat for 8 or more hours. 30 minutes before serving, mix the cornstarch with 2 ounces of cold water, and add it to the crock pot. Add more if you want to thicken it further. Serve over bean burritos.

CHILE VERDE (LA FRONTERA STYLE)

Steps:

• Cut the pork into small chunks. You can use pork roast, pork loin, or Boston butt. Husk the tomatillos, de-stem them, and cut them into large chunks. Cut the jalapenos, Anaheim peppers, and Serrano peppers into large chunks. Put tomatillos and peppers and cilantro in a food processor, puree them all. Add the can of green chilis, diced tomatos, and tomato sauce to the food processor. Continue blending until the mixture is a consistant color. Pour the vegetable puree into a crock-pot. Add the chicken broth, oregano, cumin, and chili powder. Turn the crock-pot on high and cover. Dust the pork with flour, salt and pepper. Heat 2 Tbsp. olive oil, shortening, or lard in a frying pan. Add the garlic and onions, sauté until the onions are tender. Add the pork, brown it thoroughly. Pour the entire pan's contents (including drippings) into the crock-pot. Cook in the crock-pot on high for 2 hours. After 2 hours, reduce the heat to medium or low and cook for at least another 2 hours. For very tender pork, cook on low heat for 8 or more hours. 30 minutes before serving, mix the cornstarch with 2 ounces of cold water, and add it to the crock-pot. Add more if you want to thicken it further. Serve over bean burritos. I used flour tortillas, with refried beans, chopped onions, and cheese wrapped inside. Bake the burritos in the oven at 400 for 15-20 minutes (until the tortilla just barely starts to dry out). Cover them with the chili verde and pork, then garnish (or further smother) with onions and cheese.

SUPER-EASY CROCK POT CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• Turn the crock pot on to high while you chop the onions and slice the garlic.
• Dump everything in the pot; cut the meat into 2-3 pieces so the sauce covers everything.
• Cover and cook on high for 5-6 hours.
• Degrease the sauce.
• Shred the meat.
• Serve with chopped avocado and a dollop of sour cream, if you like.

AWESOMELY EASY CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• Cut your pork roast into bite-sized cubes while your oil is heating in a large saute pan.
• While the pork is browning, dice your celery and onion.
• Once the pork is browned, add in the onion and celery.
• After your onion, celery and pork have cooked down a bit, add in the salsa verde, diced green chiles and El Pato (I use the jalapeno version for this recipe. It's the one that comes in the green can). Add as much of this as you'd like,but take heed that it's warmer than the other salsas.
• Stir together and let simmer.
• Juice the lime into the mix, season with the celery salt, add the cumin and mix.
• I love to serve this with sour cream, diced cilantro and shaved cabbage (red or green works great). It also goes well with these tortillas:http://www.recipezaar.com/65491.
• YUMMY! Delicious left overs for a few days too :).

ULTIMATE PORK CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• You can cook your roast however you like, I always use my crock pot. Slice 1 large onion in rings, put on bottom of pot, add roast then 3/4 c water mixed with 2 Tbs reduced sodium soy sauce, cut small slits on top of roast and fill with 1 clove minced garlic. Cook on low 6-7 hours. If not fully cooked don't worry it will cook through when simmered later on.
• Bring chicken broth in a large stock pot to a boil add tomatillos and boil until they just start to soften and skins start splitting open.
• Leaving broth in pot take out tomatillos and put in a blender or food processor along with chopped cilantro leaves, puree. Set aside.
• Meanwhile arrange poblano, yellow and jalapeno peppers on a large greased sheet pan, put under broiler in oven until they start getting dark, soft and bubbly, turn and repeat on other side until done.
• Seed and chop poblano and yellow peppers, seed and dice jalapenos, leave one jalapeno with seeds (if you like it really spicy adjust jalapenos to your taste).
• In a frying pan add veg oil, cook chopped onion and garlic. Season with sea salt and a little pepper, cook until onions are tender. Add cumin.
• Add onion mix to chicken stock
• Stir in pork, you may not need to use the full 5-6 lbs. Some roasts have more meat than others. I have used the full roast before and half a roast that produced the same amount of meat. Add half and go from there.
• Add peppers and tomatillo/cilantro puree.
• Simmer for 3-4 hrs to thicken. If chile verde sauce is not thick enough add a little instant mashed potatoes until desired thickness is reached.
• On a flour tortilla add shredded cheese and a spoonful of chile verde, roll and smother top with more chile verde and lots of cheese.
• Put under broiler in oven to melt cheese and serve!
• *I usually make the day before and put in fridge (it tastes better the second day) then just heat, put on tortillas and serve!*.

CHILE VERDE (GREEN CHILE)

Steps:

• Cut pork into 1/2 inch cubes and with the pork bones, fry over low heat until brown and the meat is slightly dry. If pork is very fatty, pour off grease until you only have 4-5 tbsp left.
• Using a colander, strain tomatoes into an 8-qt sauce pan and rough chop the tomatoes. Add tomato sauce, garlic, hot water and cooked pork and bones to tomatoes.
• Bring to rapid boil and continue boiling for 20 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Add spices, chopped hot peppers and chopped chili strips and continue to boil for 20 more minutes, stirring frequently.
• Lower heat to medium and continue cooking for 20 minutes.
• Remove bones and ready to serve.
• May be refrigerated for 1 week or frozen for three months.