Poblano con Queso Tacos

[Mosca]

I’m going to start with the video I watched. Ethan Cheblowski knows his tacos.

This looks pretty easy, right? Turns out, it is.

I did enough for 3 tacos, but I’ll scale this up to enough for 12 tacos, which serves 4.

4 LARGE poblano peppers, about 1 1/3 lbs
1 lb Monterey Jack, or similar (Colby Jack, cheddar Jack, etc)
12 wheat tortillas

OPTIONAL: 1 lb of meat: seasoned taco beef or chicken, chorizo, carnitas, etc. (You could use eggs and make this breakfast poblano con queso….)


I had 2 small poblanos, that’s 5.5oz, and 1/4lb of Monterey Jack. I used 1/4 of that 14oz brick of chorizo.



I stuffed those peppers while I heated up some charcoal, and the griddle:



Cheese stuffed peppers over the coal, chorizo on the griddle:



Then mix that stuff together, and chop it all up!



Three piles, then top with the tortillas:



Slide a spatula under there, hard, to get up the crispy cheesy part, then flip and stack…



And garnish with your favorite add! I followed EC’s lead and used some home made pico de gallo and pickled red onions:



INCREÍBLE. 11/10. EXTREMELY easy: it’s basically 3 ingredients. The method is this, but there’s nothing to keep you from making it on a heavy snow day by charring the peppers under the broiler, shredding cheese into a bowl, and mixing it all together in a cast iron skillet. How ever you want to get to “charred poblano pepper mixed with melted cheese and stuffed in a tortilla”, just get there!

[SheilaAnn]

Mouth is watering….. 🤤🤤🤤

[captainlee]

That's a winner!

[realdocBBQ]

O M G

So totally on the list. Thank you for sharing this!

[Mosca]

A couple more things.

First: Maybe, like me, you never heard of these until recently. If that’s the case, I will tell you that as soon as you’re done with the meal, you want more.

Second: These are easily made any number of ways, and repurposable for any meal. I went to bed wanting them for breakfast, I needed to get my eggs back to an even number (just me being o/c a little bit), and I didn’t want to fire up charcoal at 6:30AM, so…



Burritos got no eyeballs, but here’s what it came out as:

[realdocBBQ]

Looks delicious! That's my kinda breakfast!

[sarredon]

Oooh! This looks like a winner!

[Andrrr]

Thanks for sharing this. Simple yet effective!

Paging sarredon here’s one for your first griddle cook.

[sarredon]

Oh absolutely! Thanks for the shout.

[LA Pork Butt]

You make me want to cook! Come on now! Cook!

[hoovarmin]

Hubba Hubba!

[CaptainMike]

I got a coupla poblanos lurking in the fridge just begging for this treatment.

[Andrrr]

I have a plant that I’ve been trying to wait until the peppers get red dry them out, but I think I may have to sacrifice a couple for this one.

[Mosca]

Here’s the easiest way to do this.

Chop the cheese and the pepper. Don’t bother getting out the grater, then you’ll have to clean it. And yes, you can use bag cheese. I don’t get the bag cheese haters, and cellulose, and, “Wah wah, it doesn’t melt!” Hell yes bag cheese melts! That’s why you buy it, to melt it!




Into a dry skillet, medium high heat, skin down.





Turn the heat down to medium low and add the cheese, and let it melt,




Add the egg. Don’t bother scrambling it first, then you’ll have an extra bowl to clean:




And, taco! I accidentally bought a bag of those gordita tortillas: they’re too small for burritos, and too big for tacos. Remembering our geometry, area is pi(r^2): so, two 6” tortillas is 56.5 sq” and one 8” tortilla is 50.25 sq”. I made one big taco! I guess I’ll use the rest of those gordita tortillas to make quesadillas or something, I dunno.

[realdocBBQ]

Quesadillas is a good idea.

[nikolausp]

Been making these for a couple years since seeing that Ethan video way back then. They're great!

[stokester]

A good recipe never gets old. I tried this tonight on my new MHP gasser using a large cast iron fry pan. Turned out great with poblanos, Salvadoran chorizo and Mexican blend cheese. I'll be looking for a cast griddle.

[SheilaAnn]

I have a CI griddle that I use outside, too. You will love it!

[Mosca]

Interesting this got resurrected, I’ve been thinking about these for a couple days now! This is tomorrow’s breakfast.

[Mosca]

I made an egg, cheese, poblano, and tomato burrito. No pix, it was just a tube on a plate. A delicious tube on a plate, but still.

[LegoMySearwood]

I make these often. They are wonderful and yummy. I stopped stuffing the peppers because the cheese would just run out. I just add the cheese when I place everything on the grill and I grate the cheese.