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Chile Verde
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Chile Verde

Chile Verde is a pork stew featuring chunks of pork butt cooked with a sauce made from roasted tomatillos, poblano, jalapeño, and Anaheim peppers blended with cilantro and oregano. The sauce is vibrant and tangy, with mild heat from the peppers, complementing savory browned pork. This slow-cooked dish offers tender meat in a flavorful green sauce.

Prep Time
15 mins
Cook Time
2 hrs
Servings: 8
Calories: 422 kcal
Course: Soup
Cuisine: Mexican

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 pounds tomatillos
  • 1 poblano pepper
  • 6 garlic not peeled, large cloves
  • 2 jalapeños seeds and ribs removed, chopped
  • 3 Anaheim pepper you can use Hatch peppers
  • 1 cup cilantro washed, cleaned, and chopped
  • 4 pounds pork butt roast also called pork butt, remove excess fat, and cut into 2 x 1 1/2 inch chuncks
  • salt
  • 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
  • black pepper ground
  • 1 cup onion white, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon garlic minced
  • 1 tablespoon oregano dried
  • 4 cups chicken stock

Instructions

Roast vegetables
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  1. Preheat oven to broil.
  2. Remove papery husks from tomatillos and rinse well. Slice the tomatillos in half, and place on a baking sheet with the six cloves of garlic.
  3. To the baking sheet add the sliced and seeded jalapenos, anaheim peppers, and the poblano peppers.  Roast until the skins begin to turn brown.
  4. Remove the pan from the oven.
  5. Cover the baking sheet with parchment paper, and allow the skins to loosen on the tomatillos.
Prepare sauce
  1. Remove the skins of peppers and the paper from the garlic.
  2. Place in a blender the tomatillos, garlic, cilantro, oregano, and jalapeno peppers. Puree until the mixture is smooth.
Prepare meat
  1. While the peppers are cooling, cut the pork into bite-sized pieces.  Salt the pork.
  2. Add a couple of tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil to a large Dutch oven over,medium-high heat. Brown the pork on all sides in a cast iron dutch oven, or in a large pot. Do this in small batches so the pork browns evenly. Remove pork as it browns and set aside.
  3. Add the chopped garlic, oregano, and chopped onions in the same dutch oven until they become translucent. Remove the cooked garlic and onions from the pot at place in a blender.
  4. Add the cooked peppers to a blender.
  5. Pour the chicken stock into the pan and be sure to scrape up the browned bits.
  6. Place a couple of cups of the stock into the blender, and puree the mixture until it is fairly smooth.
Combine the sauce and the pork
  1. Add the green sauce from the blender to the pot.
  2. Simmer on low for about 2 hours or until the pork is tender.

Nutrition Information

Calories 422kcal (21%) Carbohydrates 14g (5%) Protein 55g (110%) Fat 15g (23%) Saturated Fat 6g (30%) Cholesterol 146mg (49%) Sodium 356mg (15%) Potassium 1267mg (27%) Fiber 3g (12%) Sugar 7g (14%) Vitamin A 280IU (6%) Vitamin C 20mg (22%) Calcium 43mg (4%) Iron 2mg (11%)

Nutrition Facts

Serving: 8 Serving

Amount Per Serving

Calories 422

% Daily Value*

Calories 422kcal 21%
Carbohydrates 14g 5%
Protein 55g 110%
Fat 15g 23%
Saturated Fat 6g 30%
Cholesterol 146mg 49%
Sodium 356mg 15%
Potassium 1267mg 27%
Fiber 3g 12%
Sugar 7g 14%
Vitamin A 280IU 6%
Vitamin C 20mg 22%
Calcium 43mg 4%
Iron 2mg 11%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.

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