Chili Verde Pork With Green Chili Sauce Food

CHILE VERDE PORK

Steps:

• Season pork pieces on all sides with salt and pepper.
• Heat a large stock pot over high heat. Add oil. Once hot, sear the pork pieces until browned on all sides.
• Remove the pork from the pot. Add a little additional oil to pan, if needed.
• Add onion and saute until tender. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
• Stir in the cumin and oregano. Return pork to the pot and add the chicken broth.
• Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and simmer for 2-4 hours.
• Meanwhile, make the sauce.
• Place rack on second to top level of oven and turn the oven to high broil.
• Lightly spray a jelly roll pan with cooking oil. Wash the poblano peppers, jalapeños and tomatillos.
• Slice the tomatillo and both types of peppers in half, and remove stems. Seed the peppers and remove the white veins inside if if you do not want the chile verde to be very spicy. (See my note below about spice level). Do not seed the tomatillos.
• Place the poblano peppers, jalapeño and tomatillos on baking sheets cut side down. Broil for about 7-10 minutes or until browned.
• Immediately place peppers in a plastic bag and tie the bag. Allow them to steam for 5 minutes, and then peel off their outer layer of skin. (It should come off easily)
• Add the peppers, tomatillos and cilantro to a blender and puree.
• Add mixture to the pot with the pork and cook everything together for an additional 30 to 45 minutes.
• Serve with tortillas, and a side of Mexican rice and beans.

PORK CHILI VERDE (GREEN PORK CHILI)

Steps:

• Heat vegetable oil in a pot over high heat until it's nearly smoking. Add pork shoulder cubes in a single layer. Let sear until brown on one side, 4 to 5 minutes. Mix and turn pieces over and brown on the other side, 4 to 5 minutes. Add onion, 1/2 teaspoon salt. Cook, stirring until onions turn translucent, about 4 minutes. Add oregano, cumin, coriander, and cayenne. Stir and cook until seasonings get fragrant, about 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low.
• Remove paper husk from tomatillos and rinse. Cut into quarters. Place in blender with garlic, jalapeno pepper, poblano, cilantro, and chicken broth. Pulse on and off until pieces start to break down. Then blend until mixture has liquefied, about 30 seconds. Stir sauce into the meat mixture. Add 1 teaspoon salt and bay leaf. Increase heat to high and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low to maintain a slow but steady simmer for about 1 hour. Add potatoes, 1/2 teaspoon salt, black pepper. If mixture has reduced to where potatoes are not immersed, add more broth to cover. Simmer until meat and potatoes are tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour.
• Garnish individual servings with a dollop of sour cream, some pickled red onions (if desired), and cilantro leaves.

CHILI VERDE PORK WITH GREEN CHILI SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Make Sauce a day ahead and refrigerate until ready for use
• 2. Put all sauce ingredients in food processor and blend until smooth.
• 3. Rub Pork with salt, add next 4 ingredients and place in crock pot for 6-8 hours. I have a hi-lo setting on my crockpot that automatically kicks from hi to lo after 2 hours. If yours does not just use lo for the full 8 hours.
• 4. When pork is cooked remove from crock pot and shred, dump all fat and liquid from crock pot and return shredded pork.
• 5. Pour raw Sauce in crock pot and cook on high for 2-3 more hours.
• 6. Serve with tortilla's and any sides you choose.

SPICY GREEN CHILE VERDE PORK

Steps:

• Place pork, onions, salt, pepper, cumin, and bay leaves into a large braising pan; cover with water; gently simmer over medium-heat 1 1/2 hours or until pork is tender; drain liquid from pork; remove bay leaves; trim pork into 1/2" pieces.
• NOTE: A portion of the pork may be cooled and frozen at this point, then used for making carnitas later on.
• Wipe braising pan dry; pour in vegetable oil and heat until oil almost smokes; brown pork in oil, stirring occasionally, for approximately 15 minutes.
• While pork is still cooking, prepare the sauce: Remove most of the membranes and most of the seeds from the jalapeno peppers; bring chicken stock to boil in medium saucepan; add tomatillos, jalapenos, and garlic cloves and boil 3 minutes; pour hot contents of saucepan into blender; puree.
• Pour sauce over browned pork; simmer 15 minutes over low heat; thicken, if desired, with a slurry of 3 tablespoons masa harina shaken with 1/4 cup water until smooth.
• NOTE: You may make your chile verde as spicy or as mild as you like by simply increasing or decreasing the amount of jalapeno pepper seeds and membranes included in the sauce.

BRAISED PORK WITH GREEN CHILE SAUCE OF CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• Trim and discard fat and cut pork in 1-inch cubes.
• In a large frying pan, heat oil over mediun-high heat; add meat a few cubes at a time and cook until very brown.
• Push meat to side of pan and add onion, garlic and bell peppers; saute until limp.
• Stir in chiles, oregano, cumin, salt, cilantro, vinegar, and water.
• Cover and simmer until meat is fork tender(about 1 hour).
• Skim off fat & discard.
• Serve with rice or make burritos or serve in your favorite way.

GREEN PORK CHILI

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
• In a large bowl, toss the onions, tomatillos, jalapenos, and garlic with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and spread on a baking sheet. Roast until soft and starting to brown, about 20 to 30 minutes, stirring twice during roasting.
• Meanwhile, in a large Dutch oven over medium-high heat, add the oil and heat. Brown the pork, in batches, until well-browned. When browned, add all of the pork back to the pan and cover with chicken stock. Add the roasted vegetables, cover the pan and place in the oven. Cook until the pork is very tender, about 1 1/2 hours.
• While pork is cooking, place the cilantro in a food processor. Add 2 tablespoons of water and puree. Remove the pork from the oven and stir in the cilantro puree. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Serve with warm flour tortillas.

CHILI VERDE PORK

Steps:

• In a medium Dutch oven, heat the oil, add the onion, peppers and garlic. Saute until translucent, do not brown. Remove and set mixture aside.
• Lightly grill the tomatillos on open flame until lightly charred. Remove from heat, place in bowl and cover with plastic wrap to keep warm for 20 minutes.
• Add pork butt to Dutch oven and cook over high heat until browned on all sides
• Add the onion-pepper mixture and tomatillos to the pork. Mix thoroughly and then deglaze with white wine and vinegar. Let reduce for 5 minutes, then add chicken stock, oregano, cumin, salt and pepper.
• Let simmer for 1 hour.

PORK CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• Season the pork meat generously with salt and pepper, lightly flour. Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed skillet over medium high heat and brown pork chunks well in small batches, on all sides. Lift pork out of pan and place in a wide soup pot. Discard fat and place the onions and peppers in the same skillet and sweat over moderate heat, stirring occasionally until limp, about 5 minutes. Add all of the chiles and cook an additional 3-4 minutes, then add the garlic and cook 1-2 minutes more.
• Add the Sauteed vegetables, chopped tomatillos, dried herbs and cilantro to the meat, cover with the chicken stock and bring up to a boil and reduce to a slight simmer. Cook for 2-3 hours uncovered or until the pork is fork tender.
• Adjust the seasoning to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with red rice for a delightful contrast.

CHILE VERDE CON CERDO (GREEN CHILI WITH PORK)

Steps:

• Simmer roast in a large pan until meat is tender and removes from the bone easily. (You can also use diced pork, or pork cube steaks (cut to bite size pieces), browned in the pot with the onion and garlic before adding the rest of the ingredients).
• Cool meat enough to handle.
• Cube cooked pork into bite size pieces.
• Process 1/2 of the green chilies and tomatillos until smooth.
• In the same large pan, melt the lard or bacon grease (or heat oil).
• Add onions and garlic; sauté until tender but not brown.
• Stir flour into the onion, garlic and fat until flour absorbs the oil or fat.
• Add broth or water.
• Cook and stir until mixture comes to boil and is slightly thickened.
• Add cubed meat, drained tomatoes (if desired), chopped tomatillos, chopped green chilies, processed tomatillos and chilies, and jalapeños (if desired; I recommend tasting first).
• Add the spices a little at a time until you get the taste you like, bringing to a simmer before each addition.
• Simmer for at least 1 hour (longer if you can afford the time), stirring occasionally to prevent it from sticking to the bottom of the pan.
• If you want more of a stew type chili, add cubed potatoes 20 minutes before serving; serve with warm tortillas.
• Serve over burritos and garnish with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
• Leave pork out for a vegetarian green chili sauce.

AUTHENTIC CHILI VERDE (PORK AND GREEN TOMATILLO STEW)

Steps:

• In a large stock pot over high heat sear the pork in the vegetable oil until browned.
• Remove the pork from the pot, reserve 3 tablespoons oil in the pan.
• Saute the chopped onion and garlic seasoned with salt and pepper in the reserved oil until onions are tender.
• Add the cumin, then stir in pork and chicken stock.
• Simmer for 1/2 hour.
• Add in poblanos, jalapenos and bell peppers.
• Puree the tomatillos and cilantro in a blender, and add them to the pot.
• Cook for an additional 30 to 45 minutes.
• Serve with Mexican/Spanish rice and refried beans.