Quick-Cooked Tomatillo-Chile Sauce

Name: Quick-Cooked Tomatillo-Chile Sauce
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h
Total time: 1 h
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 serving cilantro; 1 serving garlic; 1 serving jalapenos; 1 serving meat broth; 1 serving onion; 1 serving Salt; 1 serving tomatillos; 1 serving vegetable oil

Quick-Cooked Tomatillo-Chile Sauce might be just the sauce you are searching for. This recipe serves 1. Watching your figure? This gluten free, dairy free, and whole 30 recipe has 171 calories, 2g of protein, and 15g of fat per serving. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour. A mixture of tomatillos, tomatillos, vegetable oil, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so yummy.

Instructions

The tomatillos: Boil the fresh tomatillos and chiles in salted water to cover until tender, 10 to 15 minutes; drain. Simply drain canned tomatillos.

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Tomatillos

Chili Pepper

Water

Place the tomatillos and chiles (raw ones if using canned tomatillos) in a blender or food processor, along with the coriander, onion and garlic; if using a blender, stir well. Process until smooth, but still retaining a little texture.

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Tomatillos

Coriander

Chili Pepper

Garlic

Onion

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Food Processor

Blender

Heat the lard or vegetable oil in a medium-large skillet set over medium-high. When hot enough to make a drop of the puree sizzle sharply, pour it in all at once and stir constantly for 4 or 5 minutes, until darker and thicker.

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Vegetable Oil

Lard

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Frying Pan

Add the broth, let return to a boil, reduce the heat to medium and simmer until thick enough to coat a spoon, about 10 minutes. Season with salt.Techniques

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Broth

Salt

Blender Tricks: In blending in gredients of such different consistencics to an even-textured puree, make sure that (

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Blender

harder items are chopped before blending, (

the mixture is well stirred before blending, and (

the blender is first pulsed, then turned on low. Blending should never take more than about 20 seconds.Timing and Advance Preparation

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Blender

The sauce can be made in hour. It keeps, covered and refrigerated, up to 4 days.Contemporary Ideas

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Sauce

Herby Tomatillo Sauce: Puree the drained tomatillos, 1 large chile poblano (roasted, peeled, seeded and chopped), 3 cloves garlic (roasted and peeled) and 10 large leaves fresh basil. Fry and simmer as directed in Step

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Whole Garlic Cloves

Fresh Basil

Tomatillos

Poblano Pepper

Chili Pepper

Sauce

For a more Mexican balance of flavors, replace the basil with a few leaves of epazote (or mint) and sprigs of fresh coriander.Kitchen Spanish

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Fresh Cilantro

Epazote

Basil

Mint

In Mexico, the tomatillo may be called anything from tomate, to tomate verde, miltomate, or tomate de cascara (husk tomato), not to mention fresadilla in the northeast and tomatillo in the northwest.

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Tomatillos

Tomato