Best Ranchero Sauce Recipes

RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Place bacon in a large skillet and cook over medium-high heat, turning occasionally, until slightly browned, about 5 minutes. Cook and stir onion in the bacon grease until onion is transparent, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove bacon from skillet and drain on a paper towel-lined plate; crumble.
• Stir chopped tomatoes, tomato sauce, cilantro, jalapeno pepper, salt, pepper, and crumbled bacon into onion; bring to a simmer and cook until flavors blend, about 15 minutes.

RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• On a gas range or under a broiler, roast the green, red and poblano peppers until well charred. Let cool. Stem and seed the charred peppers. Coarsely chop and set aside.
• In a spice grinder or with a mortar and pestle, finely grind the whole guajillo and pasilla chiles and set aside.
• In a large saucepan, warm the oil over medium heat. Add the onions and cook, covered, 3 to 5 minutes. Add the guajillo and pasilla chiles, cumin, chili powder, oregano, thyme, black pepper, salt and garlic. Stir and cook until the spices become fragrant and are fully coated in oil, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes, green chiles and sugar. Stir and continue to cook until the sauce starts to simmer. Reduce the heat to medium-low and continue to cook until the vegetables soften and the flavors come together, 30 to 40 minutes. Taste and add additional salt and pepper as needed.

RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Melt butter in heavy large skillet over medium heat. Add next 6 ingredients and sauté until vegetables are soft, about 5 minutes. Add broth and tomato sauce and cook until sauce thickens and reduces to 1 1/2 cups, stirring frequently, about 20 minutes. Mix in cilantro.

HOMEMADE RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, heat the oil over medium heat.
• Add the onion, celery, bell pepper, and garlic and cook, covered, until vegetables are lightly browned, about 10 minutes.
• Add the tomatoes with their juices, green chiles, Worcestershire sauce, parsley, paprika, oregano, and pepper and bring to a simmer.
• Reduce the heat to low and simmer, uncovered, until slightly thickened and the tomato juices are almost evaporated, about 30 minutes Stir in the hot sauce.
• Serve the sauce hot, warm, or at room temperature.

GRILLED RED TROUT WITH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Salt and pepper the meat side of the fish, spray with nonstick cooking spray if desired. Place skin side down on a hot grill. Cook about 30 seconds and flip over. The skin should separate from the meat. Cook 1 to 2 minutes, and turn over, to finish cooking the other side of the fillet. When cooked through, around 1 minute more, depending on the temperature of your grill, remove from heat. Serve hot with ranchero sauce.
• Saute onion, red pepper and poblano chile until soft and translucent. Add the tomatoes, bring to a boil. Add seasonings. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes. Serve hot.

RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Blacken the peppers under the broiler or top of a gas stove.
• Place in a plastic baggie.
• Toast the cumin in a saucepan until it begins to smoke.
• Add the oil, onions and garlic.
• Sauté for 2 minutes.
• Add the rest of the ingredients, except for the peppers, and simmer over a low heat for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Remove the skins from the peppers, seed, and coarsely chop them.
• Add them to the saucepan.
• Cook another 5 minutes or so until the sauce thickens slightly.
• Pulse in a blender to desired consistency. Refrigerate for up to a month.
• Serve hot or room temperature.

HATCH CHILE RELLENO CASSEROLE WITH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Coat a 9x13-inch baking dish with cooking spray.
• Place egg whites in a bowl and beat until stiff. Gently fold in evaporated milk, flour, and salt. Cover bottom of baking dish with 1/2 the egg white mixture. Place chiles flat over egg whites. Sprinkle Oaxaca cheese over chiles. Top with remaining chiles and egg white mixture.
• Bake in the preheated oven until eggs are set, about 30 minutes.
• While casserole bakes, heat oil in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat. Saute onion and garlic for 2 minutes. Add chile powder, salt, and cumin. Cook and stir for another minute. Add bell peppers and cook until soft, 3 to 5 minutes. Add flour and stir for 2 minutes. Slowly add broth, stirring to avoid lumps. Bring to a boil; reduce heat to low and simmer until casserole is ready.
• Serve the sauce with slices of the chile relleno casserole.

RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. In a medium sauce pan over medium heat, add oil and smoke.
• 2. Sweat garlic and onion in oil until tender.
• 3. Add jalapeno and cook for 10 minutes covered.
• 4. Add tomatoes with salt. (salt will draw the liquid from tomatoes.) Cook covered for 30 minutes on medium low heat.
• 5. Drain excess tomato liquid from pan.
• 6. Add cilantro and broth to pan. Simmer for 5 minutes covered. (Adjust the thickness of the sauce with broth. Be sure to drain all the excess liquid you can, the tomato liquid is super watery, but the 1/2 cup of broth will add the extra flavor you are looking for. You might need more than 1/2 cup or a little less depending on how much liquid your tomatoes give up while cooking.)
• 7. Add paprika, salt, pepper, cayenne, chilli, lime juice and cumin.
• 8. Blend mixture with immersion blender, or transfer to a standard blender until smooth. (If you like chunky sauce don't blend it, tastes the same whether smooth or not.)
• 9. Simmer the sauce for about 15 minutes before serving. A little tip: if you find the sauce too watery after you add your stock, no big deal, simmer it uncovered, it'll thicken itself up in no time.
• 10. In this entry I served ranchero sauce over my black bean quesadilla.

BIG-BATCH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Combine everything in a large pot or rondeau, and simmer over gentle heat for 1 hour, stirring occasionally to prevent any scorching on the bottom. Add a little water if it becomes any thicker than ketchup. Allow to cool before puréeing.
• Working in a blender in batches, purée until smooth. Check the salt seasoning. Let cool.
• Transfer to quart or pint containers, and stock your freezer, or put the sauce in something more attractive - rubber-sealed jars with hinged lids? - to make gifts of the stuff. Ranchero sauce keeps well in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks, or in the freezer for up to 1 year. (It may separate a little, in which case you can simply reheat and give a new buzz in a blender to reunify.)

CHORIZO-STUFFED PEPPERS WITH GREEN CHILE RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook and stir chorizo, bacon, and onion in the hot skillet until the sausage and bacon are completely browned, 7 to 10 minutes. Drain and discard grease. Rinse mixture with hot water to remove as much grease as possible; drain.
• Mix the chorizo mixture, rice, chile peppers, diced tomatoes, Monterey Jack cheese, and salsa together in a large bowl.
• Arrange bell peppers in a baking dish. Spoon filling into the peppers. Place pepper tops on the stuffed peppers. Cover dish with aluminum foil.
• Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Remove the foil and continue baking until the tops of the pepper and any exposed rice are slightly browned, about 30 minutes more.
• Whisk enchilada sauce and ranch dressing mix together in a microwave-safe bowl.
• Heat enchilada sauce mixture in microwave oven for 2 minutes.
• Whisk sour cream into the enchilada sauce mixture; drizzle over the stuffed peppers.

MEXICAN STUFFED PEPPERS WITH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Cut tops off bell peppers and de-seed. Save tops.
• 2. Place the peppers in a large pot of hot water and allow them to cook a bit on medium-low heat until tender while everything cooks, about 10 minutes. Not soggy, you still want them to stand.
• 3. Add the ground beef, onion, and bell pepper pieces to a 4 or 5-quart Dutch oven.
• 4. Brown and drain grease. Preheat the oven to 350.
• 5. Add the taco seasoning, tomato sauce, and 2 tomato sauce cans of water to the meat. If too dry, add a little bit of extra water. The goal is the consistency of a Mexican jambalaya. If desired, you can add a bit of chili powder and cumin. Let simmer for the flavors to meld together.
• 6. Add the cooked rice after simmering. Turn to the lowest setting or turn off the stove.
• 7. Next prepare the ranchero sauce. In a large skillet, add butter and melt. Saute the 1/2 chopped onion in butter.
• 8. Then sprinkle in the flour in (you may not need all of it). Stir like making a gravy.
• 9. Add the can of Rotel tomatoes and keep stirring.
• 10. A little at a time, add the 3 cups of chicken broth until all blended and until it starts to thicken. You may not need all the broth.
• 11. Place the peppers in a 9X13 baking dish. Then fill them with the meat and rice mixture, almost overfilling them (you may have some mixture leftover).
• 12. Next, pour some of the ranchero sauce over each pepper.
• 13. As an option, add a slice of American cheese over each pepper.
• 14. Pour the remaining ranchero sauce in the baking dish to flood the pan.
• 15. Bake for about 30 minutes.

RANCHERO SAUCE (SALSA RANCHERO)

Steps:

• Saute onions and jalapenos over a medium heat for 1-2 minutes. Add garlic. Saute another 30 seconds. In a medium size sauce pan, smoke the oregano, cumin, and chile powder over a medium high heat until fragrant. Quickly add chicken stock, then all the rest of the ingredients. Bring to a boil, turn heat to low. Reduce sauce by at least one half. Will freeze.

VEGGIE ENCHILADAS WITH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• First make your sauce. Saute onions, jalapenos, and fresh tomatos in oil. Salt generously to release the water in the tomatos, it makes a better sauce. If you are using canned tomatos, add them after onions are cooked soft. Then add poblano, tomato sauce and oregano, cover and let simmer. If you use cilantro, don't add it until you are ready to put the sauce on the enchiladas, or it can turn bitter To make enchilada filling: Grate squash and then carrots in food processor, set aside. In a heavy skillet with a lid, saute onion, celery, carrot, garlic, spices and jalapeno in oil until onions soften, 5-7 minutes. Add grated squash on top of sauted mixture, cover and let simmer until squash is steamed, about 10 minutes. In a large bowl, mix cooked veggies with grated cheese. This is the filling for your enchiladas. To assemble enchiladas, first ladle 1/2 cup sauce into a cassarole dish. Heat about 2 T. oil in a small skillet, and sprinkle in a little chili powder. Using tongs, fry tortillas two at a time quickly in hot oil, just long enough to soften. Fresh tortillas will bubble up a little, so watch out for the steam. Set them on a plate and cover while you fry the rest, adding more oil and chili powder to the pan as needed. Put a softened tortilla in the cassarole dish, fill with about 2 T veggies and roll up tightly. Keep going until your dish is full. Pack them in fairly tight, so they will not unroll. Top with just enough sauce to cover all, then with cheese down the center of the pan so it looks nice. Bake at 350 until bubbly, about 20 minutes. Garnish with chopped cilantro and serve hot.

HOT RED SAUCE (SALSA RANCHERO)

Steps:

• Combine the chilies, tomatoes, onions, garlic, coriander and sugar in an electric blender and blend until smooth.
• Add salt, vinegar and parsley.
• Serve hot or cold with chicken, fried eggs, tomatoes or tacos.
• (or enchiladas?).

BREAKFAST WRAP WITH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• In corn tortilla layer iceberg lettuce, Jack cheese, sunny-side up eggs. Top with Ranchero sauce.
• In a skillet over medium heat, combine tomatoes, jalapeno, onion and garlic. Add the oregano, chili powder, and salt and allow to cook about 10 to 12 minutes, or until onions are translucent. If sauce appears too thick, dilute with up to 1/2 cup water.
• Ladle half of sauce into a food processor or blender and puree. Combine with remaining half of sauce and serve warm.

OCTOPUS IN RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• First roast 2 medium onion and 2 heads garlic in the oven (at 425 for 20 minutes or so until they start to caramelize). Alternately you can pan roast them in a cast iron skillet.
• In a large pot place roasted onion and garlic, octopus, 2 bunches parsley & cilantro, peppercorns, 4 serrano chiles (whole), 16 cups water and beer.
• Boil for 1 1/2 to two hours.
• Remove from heat and let the octopus cool in the liquid while you start the ranchero sauce.
• Bring 6 cups of water to boil with 16 plum tomatoes, 14 serranos, 1 1/2 sliced tomatoes and 6 cloves of garlic and simmer for 30 minutes.
• Strain out the solids (saving the Ranchero broth), puree the solids in a blender or Cuisinart with 1 1/2 cups or the retained broth.
• Now, heat 1/2 cup olive oil in a tall thick pot and add 6 cloves of garlic. Simmer the garlic until it turns golden, remove them with a slotted spoon and carefully pour in the Ranchero sauce. This will cause splattering so I strongly encourage long sleeves. Stir like mad for the first few minutes until it's a gentle simmer. Cook for 30 minutes.
• Now strain the liquid from the simmered octopus and in a separate pan cook down to 3 cups. This should take about 30 minutes. Meanwhile separate the octopus from the veggies and toss the veggies.
• While the ranchero sauce and octopus are simmering down take the final 6 cloves of garlic, 1/2 cup of cilantro and salt and either in a pestle or a blender puree into a smooth paste.
• Add the paste, octopus and reduced octopus stock to the ranchero sauce and cook for a final 20 minutes.
• I sometimes split this recipe over two days (make the octopus one night and the ranchero the next).

CHICKEN TAMALES WITH RANCHERO SAUCE RECIPE - (4.7/5)

Steps:

• Submerge corn husks in a large pot filled with warm water. Soak 30 minutes; drain and discard water. Combine stock and ancho chiles in a medium saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium; simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat; let stand 5 minutes. Drain chiles over a bowl; reserve soaking liquid. Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add onion; cook 2 minutes, stirring occasionally. Reduce heat to medium; stir in oregano, 1 teaspoon salt, and garlic. Sauté 7 minutes. Add chipotle; cook 1 minute. Stir in 2 cups reserved soaking liquid, tomato paste, cumin, and tomato sauce; cook 4 minutes or until mixture thickens slightly. Place ancho chiles and onion mixture in a blender. Remove center piece of blender lid (to allow steam to escape); secure blender lid on blender. Place a clean towel over opening in blender lid (to avoid splatters). Blend until smooth. Return mixture to skillet over medium heat. Stir in chocolate; cook 1 minute. Remove 1 1/2 cups sauce from skillet; reserve. Add chicken to skillet. Remove from heat; cool to room temperature. Combine masa harina, baking powder, and remaining 1 teaspoon kosher salt in a bowl. Cut in lard with a pastry blender or 2 knives until mixture resembles coarse meal. Add remaining 2 cups soaking liquid and 1 1/2 cups water; stir until a soft dough forms. Knead dough in bowl until smooth and pliable. Tear a few corn husks lengthwise into 24 thin strips. Place 1 corn husk on a work surface, with narrow end facing you. Place about 3 heaping tablespoons masa mixture in center of husk, about 1 inch from top; press into a 4 x 3 1/2-inch rectangle. Spoon 2 1/2 tablespoons chicken mixture down center of masa rectangle. Fold sides of husk over filling; fold narrow end up to form a packet. Tie strip around tamale to secure the packet. Repeat procedure with remaining husks, dough, filling, and husk strips. Poke holes in bottom of a 13 1/2 x 9 1/2-inch shallow disposable aluminum pan; cut corners from rim down to bottom to make it pliable. Fit pan into bottom of a 6-quart oval or rectangular slow cooker; pour remaining 1 cup water into pan. Line bottom of pan with a damp kitchen towel. Stand tamales in prepared pan, with open ends facing upright. Cover slow cooker (weighing down lid if necessary to keep it closed); cook on HIGH for 4 hours or until masa is set. Let tamales stand 10 minutes. Serve with remaining sauce.

AVOCADO RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Drain and rinse chiles, saute in oil with garlic and onion and when onions are transparent, add avocado and seasonings. Cook about 5 minutes on med-low or until slightly thick.
• Remove from heat and add sour cream.

RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Cut the prepared poblano chiles into 1/4-inch-thick strips (rajas); set aside. Chop together the blackened tomatoes and serranos and set aside. In a large, heavy skillet, heat the oil over low heat and sauté the onion and garlic until soft but not brown, about 10 minutes (add up to 1/4 cup water, if necessary, to provide moisture and prevent browning). Add the chopped tomatoes and serranos, two-thirds of the poblanos (reserve one-third of the strips to add at the end), the cilantro, and the salt to the pan. Cover and cook over low heat until the flavors have married and the ingredients have lost their raw taste, 20 to 30 minutes. Remove the cilantro and stir in the reserved poblano strips.
• Serve immediately, or hold at room temperature for up to 2 hours. It can be prepared up to 1 day ahead, refrigerated, and gently warmed before serving (don't overcook).

STUFFED POBLANO PEPPERS WITH RANCHERO SAUCE

Steps:

• Ranchero Sauce: really good, like Blanco Cafe In sauce pan, 1 can tomato sauce 1 Roma tomato rough cut Garlic minced - 4 cloves Cilantro Onion - ½ yellow sliced in ½ rings One bird pepper, seeded 1 tsp chili powder salt to taste. (I added the rest of the corn left over from above also) Heat and simmer until all flavors mixed and veggies are soft. Add water to keep at right consistency. Heat and pour over top Serve over quinoa or rice, with black beans or roasted vegetable. Black beans: 2 cans garlic powder and salt, cumin, chili powder from NM, and cilantro Spanish rice: 1-2 pks yellow rice w/seasoning and 1 pk taco seasoning