Best Traditional New Mexican Red Chile Sauce Recipes
NEW MEXICO RED CHILE SAUCE
New Mexico Red Chile Sauce is a hot sauce and staple of New Mexican cuisine. This sauce, made with dried red chile powder, is poured over huevos rancheros, enchiladas, grits, burritos, and most meals in New Mexico. It's easy to make and can be stored in your fridge for up to a week. If you love spicy foods, you are going to fall in love with this sauce.
Categories dinner
Time 15m
Number Of Ingredients 9
Steps:
- Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan over medium heat. Once hot, add the garlic and the onion. Saute in the oil for about 3 minutes, until the onion is translucent. Then whisk in the flour. Let the flour cook for 2 minutes, whisking it frequently. In a large bowl, whisk the red chile powder and the water together. While whisking the flour mixture, slowly add the red chile and water mixture. Whisk until smooth and bring to a steady simmer and let the sauce thicken over medium-low heat for 5 minutes. Stir frequently. Once the sauce has thickened, add the salt, cumin, and oregano. Let the sauce simmer on low for another 3 minutes. I like to bottle the sauce up in mason jars. I think the sauce tastes best after it has been sitting in the fridge overnight. This recipe yields 3 3/4 cups of red chile sauce. Charles and I ate it all in 5 days.
TRADITIONAL NEW MEXICAN RED CHILE SAUCE
The dried red chiles have a distintive earthy taste. You may enrich the sauce with a bit of cream. Use in Carne Adovada or enchiladas. Just remember to cover the rubber or plastic parts of your blender with plastic wrap and use metal spoons. These red chiles will stain rubber and plastic permanently.
Provided by Miss Annie
Categories Sauces
Time 45m
Yield 1 1/2-2 Quarts
Number Of Ingredients 6
Steps:
- Place the chile pods on a foil lined cookie sheet and warm in a 375º F.
- oven for just a few minutes until they become soft and leathery.
- Working in small batches at a time, fit pods into a blender or food processor.
- Purée with the onion, garlic, oregano and salt until smooth, adding small amounts of water as needed to make a sauce the consistency of thick cream.
- Place each batch of puréed mixture in a large bowl until all have been blended.
- Stir the batches together.
- Store in refrigerator.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1145.9, Fat 18.2, SaturatedFat 2.6, Sodium 1842.5, Carbohydrate 248.9, Fiber 90.5, Sugar 129.4, Protein 38.2
NEW MEXICO RED CHILE SAUCE
Red chile is a staple of the New Mexican and West Texan diet, and this recipe is my grandmother's recipe. When I make it, it reminds me of the smells of her cooking in her kitchen, fresh corn tortillas, beans, and red chile peppers. You can kick up the spiciness by adding more arbol chile pods.
Provided by Cookincwgrl
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes
Time 43m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Coat the bottom of a heavy saucepan with oil; add chile pods. Toast over medium heat until aromatic, about 3 minutes.
- Stir in onion and garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add enough chicken stock to allow pods to float; simmer until they develop the texture of wet leather, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Fill blender halfway with chile-stock mixture. Cover and hold lid down with a potholder; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Pour into a bowl; repeat with remaining mixture. Strain sauce through a fine mesh strainer into a saucepan over medium heat. Discard solids.
- Stir cumin, coriander, and oregano into the saucepan; add honey. Cook until sauce is thick and evenly coats the back of a spoon, about 10 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 370.9 calories, Carbohydrate 52.3 g, Cholesterol 0.7 mg, Fat 8.1 g, Fiber 2 g, Protein 11.7 g, SaturatedFat 0.8 g, Sodium 711.9 mg, Sugar 6.5 g
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