Recipe - Chiles En Nogada (Stuffed Green Chiles With Walnut Sauce)

6 tablespoon Oil [your choice I use
olive; sunflower or corn
oil]
12 Green chiles; cut or sliced up
[jalepenos preferably]
4 lg Carrots; peeled & cut or sliced up
thinly in rounds
2 lg Onions; cut or sliced up thinly
1 Red [bell] pepper; cut or sliced up
thinly
1 pt Distilled malt vinegar
2 Cloves garlic [or more to
taste]; cut or sliced up thinly
[recipe says chopped
finely]
One fourth teaspoon Oregano [I use more]
One fourth teaspoon Marjoram [I neglect this in
favour of more oregano
see above]
One fourth teaspoon Thyme
1 teaspoon Salt
One half teaspoon Ground black pepper
1 tablespoon Granulated sugar

This is a recipe for pickled peppers I got from a book by Lourdes Nichols.
It calls for cut or sliced up green chilli's of no particular type, but I usually use
Jalepeno's if I can get them cheap enough & it certainly bulks it out
more. I don't see why whole ones wouldn't work either they just go
further when cut or sliced up :

Heat oil in a large saucepan [avoid aluminium] & toss the chiles, carrots,
onions & red pepper for two minutes each [or in whatever order suits you, &
don't have the oil too hot], removing them from the heat & setting them
aside in a bowl until they are all done. [You may need to add more oil as
you go along]

[At this point I also add half the garlic, cooked until it is about to turn
brown, before adding to the above bowl]

Slowly add the vinegar, herbs, seasoning, the rest of the garlic & the
sugar to the remaining oil in the pan, & boil until the liquid is reduced
by onethird [I have no idea why this is neccessary]. Pour the boiling
liquid over the vegetables, & allow to cool uncovered. When cold, transfer
to clean jars & seal.

Refrigerate once jar is open.

For variation, I have experimented with less carrots, more than one (bell)
pepper (yellow) & added cauliflower, with success. I recommend that you
don't overcook the vegetables, & refrigerate the finished product within a
day (ie. b4 you open the jar) this ensures that the everything stays
crispy & crunchy (especially the carrots which otherwise seem to develop a
mushy texture). This is quite a sharp (acidic) recipe but I like it & so
does anyone who tries it! (And it is certainly better than the over salted
commercial pickled chiles). Its quite interesting to notice the Jalepenos
change from dark to pale green as they pickle.

I have been toying with trying this recipe with Scotch Bonnets or Habs,
instead of normal green chilli's I'll post the results if I do...

Posted to CHILEHEADS DIGEST by Paul Richards paular@zoo.co.uk on May 13,
1998