Today, the Nef Chef had his sister over and wanted to impress her so he made chilaqueles. Get the same ingredients as the salsa verde. Chilaquiles are easy and need little attention. They are also one of the most forgiving foods he knows how to make. They do require lots of boiling, so if you are short on time they arne't the way to go.
To make them, you will need to pick up the following ingredients:
- Tomatillos
- Cerano Peppers
- Onions
- Cilantro
- Garlic
- Chicken broth
- Corn tortilla chips
Optional: Sour cream, cottage cheese, avacados, eggs, cheddar cheese, chicken, steak
Today Nef Chef cooked for four ridiculously stuffed adults (or eight non-gluttonous adults).1) The first thing I did was to take twelve diced tomatillos and set them to boil with three medium chicken breasts. If you are going to use eggs or steak as your meat instead of chicken, you still need chicken broth but you can use a can of broth or boulion. Nef Chef likes real chicken broth the best.
2) When the tomatillos are soft and you "feel it in your innards that it's time to go to the next step," put the tomatillos and the chicken broth into the blender as well as a finely cut whole onion into the blender (the bigger the onion the better). Also add a handful of chopped cilantro. And then add two diced garlic cloves. And then put two peppers and put salt in until the "boy-within" is giddy.
3)Now you blend it until the particulars are unparticulated. Warning: if you use chicken to make the chicken broth, like Nef Chef did, don't put the chicken in the blender with the broth, tomatillos, and everything else. Nef Chef did this once and nearly lost his reputation.
Real warning: the broth and tomatillos will be boiling hot. If you do not let them cool down a little before you blend, your blender will explode. You will have green sauce all over your kitchen and burns on your face.
Put the unparticulated particulars into a large pan or sauce pan. Add water (turn the tap on full and count to your favorite number.) Let boil on medium for forty five minutes or until the sauce becomes one with the water.
You are done cooking! All you need to do now is grab a bowl, put down some chips and a layer of chicken, and layer it a few times. Then on the top you put your condiments like sour cream, cheddar cheese, avacados and whatever else sounds good. Lettuce is common. Drown it in the sauce. Eat and enjoy! Play with the quantity of the ingredients and with the toppings. If the sauce is too hot or not hot enough, add or subtract chilies by one. The sauce should be very liquid like. If you did not use enough chicken brought you can just put more water.
If you suddenly have your next door neighbor drop by "to visit" because of the delicious aroma of your chilequile sauce but you don't think you have enough sauce, don't worry, just add more water and let it cook a little bit longer.
9 comments:
I look forward to trying this recipe out :D I will let you know if I get it right
One question before I start, how much water should I boil the chicken and tomatillos in, and how much sauce should I end up with at the end?
The more water you boil the tomatillos and chicken in the less water you have to put in after words and the less time it has to boil after blending. After all is said and done, the amount of water/chicken broth depends on how long you want the sauce to go, if you have lots of people and not so many tomatillos then add more water.
yesterday I had 12 tomatillos and about 2 litters one cup of water between the boiling and the adding water after blending. As a general rule more water is better then less because the sauce/soup is suppost to "drown" the tortilla chips which will suck lots of liquid plus you will loose lots of water to the boiling. If you over did it with the water you can always just let it boil for longer but more then likely you will have the opossit problem, too little water.
At the end of the day you want more of a soup then a sauce.
You should put a "Eat With Caution" warning on your food. I ate so much, that afterwords when I finally had the sense to breathe instead of eat, I nearly died from over eating. Seriously. It needs a warning.
Yea!! I love your comment Rose. It was quite funny after you finish eating to see you roll around in pain because you ate so fast.
Funny? It hurt so bad! And I still had more in my bowl... just haunting me with its deliciousness.
I've decided you are evil.
Ha ha, I love how you write recipes. (until the little boy in you is giddy, count to your favorite number). I am looking forward to trying this recipe. Can you get all those ingredients (like tomatillos) at a regular grocery store, or do I need to go to a particular one?
you can get them all at any old regular store (at list all the stores I seen). if you are not sure and don't want to make a trip in vain, I know walmart has the stuff.
I think that a recipe book or blog falls under the same law as any other book or blogg, it needs to be entertaining and not boring.
You can get them at Wal-mart, but we found that you can get most of the ingredients, especially the peppers and tomatillos, a lot cheaper at Rancho Market. Like 99 cents for 2 pounds on sale versus wal-marts 2 something dollars a pound for the peppers :)
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