Recipe - Green Chile (Colorado Style)

2 pound Pork cubed into chunks about
the size of the end of your
thumb; or 1 pound pork, 1
pound beef, some people use
chicken... Usually here in
Pueblo it is all pork.
2 cn (7 oz) of roasted green
chiles or 1 green chile and
1 jalapeno; depending on
heat tolerance.
Flour
1 Baseball sized onion;
chopped
3 Cloves of garlic minced; (up
to 5)
Red chile powder if
available
1 cn (8 oz) tomato sauce; or 12
oz can chopped tomatoes
(optional)
Salt & pepper
Oil to brown pork
Oregano

Cut up meat. In a container (I use a lunch size paper bag) put 2/3 cup of
flour, 1 table spoon red chile powder, salt and pepper to taste and meat.
Shake to coat meat well.

Heat oil in large dutch oven or pot (I use 5 quart dutch oven). Oil should
be between 1/8th and 1/4th inch deep. Add meat, and don't worry if you add
some of the flour along with it. Brown the meat, and at the same time get a
nice light brown chile roux. Add onion and garlic to meat mixture about 1/2
way through the browning time. Add chiles, tomatoes if you are inclined and
water to fill pot. Add oregano, somewhere between a pinch and 1/8th
teaspoon, depending on preferences. Bring to good boil and simmer for about
30 minutes, adding water if needed. I just let it simmer down to the
consistency I want, usually somewhat thick.

There are 2 camps on adding tomatoes, somewhat like the people who add
beans to texas chili, and those who don't. I prefer either one. Potatoes
are also an excellent addition.

Usually served over burritos, sometimes enchiladas, or eaten plain with
flour tortillas. Good stuff. The farther south you go, say Santa Fe, the
thinner this stuff is. By the time you get to Alamagordo, it is almost
chineese food like in consistency, and the meat seems to have disappeared.

The gabacho chile picker and green chile junkie boz
Posted to CHILEHEADS DIGEST by "boz" boz@rmi.net on Feb 13, 98