Team Cook August - Chicken Chile Verde

[SheilaAnn]

In honor of hatch chili season…. I present Chicken Chile Verde! I LOVE this dish! I double-triple the recipe so I have some on hand almost all the time. And I’m out.

This is one of those recipes that can go in any direction and still be a winner. I chose a pressure cooker recipe because it’s a short cook time during the summer. If you don’t have a pressure cooker, grab your DO and hit the grill or the fire pit.

Regarding hatch chilis: sub them in anywhere in the recipe. Just keep the ratios similar.

Reveal: Aug 15th or later. No pressure, no rush.

Bonus Cook: make your own tortillas to serve with a big ol’ bowl of chicken chile verde! Any recipe you want. Funny, this will be taking me out of MY comfort zone!



Chicken Chile Verde Pressure Cooker

Poultry
Prep Time: 15 mins | Cook Time: 25 mins | Servings: 4 to 6 servings

Ingredients:
3 pounds bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs and drumsticks
1 pound poblano peppers, roughly chopped, seeds and stems discarded (about 3 peppers)
12 ounces tomatillos, husks discarded, quartered (about 4 tomatillos)
10 ounces white onion, roughly chopped (about 1 medium)
6 ounces Anaheim or Cubanelle peppers, roughly chopped, seeds and stems discarded (about 2 peppers)
2 Serrano or jalapeño peppers, roughly chopped, stems discarded
6 medium cloves garlic, peeled
1 tablespoon whole cumin seeds, toasted and ground
Kosher salt
1/2 cup loosely packed fresh cilantro leaves and fine stems, plus more for garnish
1 tablespoon Asian fish sauce, such as Red Boat
Fresh corn tortillas and lime wedges, for serving

Directions:
Combine chicken, poblano peppers, tomatillos, onion, Anaheim peppers, Serrano peppers, garlic, cumin, and a big pinch of salt in a pressure cooker. Heat over high heat until gently sizzling, then seal pressure cooker, bring to high pressure, and cook for 15 minutes. Release pressure.
Using tongs, transfer chicken pieces to a bowl and set aside. Add cilantro and fish sauce to remaining contents of pressure cooker. Blend with an immersion blender or in a countertop blender and season to taste with salt. Return chicken to sauce, discarding skin and bones and shredding if desired.
Transfer to a serving platter, garnish with chopped cilantro, and serve immediately with tortillas and lime wedges.

Notes:
5-30-24 Roast the chiles and garlic

Source: https://www.seriouseats.com/pressure...e-verde-recipe

[SheilaAnn]

And the paprika file for the paprika users

[fzxdoc]

This sounds so easy and delicious. You had me at pressure cooker, not to mention a Kenji recpe.

Kathryn

[JCBBQ]

Hmm I guess it’s time to buy a pressure cooker…🤷♂️

[58limited]

I'm in. Just put 18 lbs of roasted, peeled, and seeded Hatch into the freezer. SheilaAnn Try roasting the tomatillos too.

[fzxdoc]

That article was a wonderful read, gcdmd . Thanks for posting it.

Kathryn

[SheilaAnn]

Yes! I’ve made this recipe before. Good reference for those without a pressure cooker.

[Donw]

I had a question about substituting the listed peppers with Hatch. I found this comment from a commenter in the recipe linked by gcdmd

“ I asked Kenji about the Hatch substitution, his response:
Easy! Just take out the poblanos and cubanelles from the recipe, and replace them with 10 hatch chilis, you lucky duck!”

[barelfly]

Mmmmmmmm…nothing better than the aroma of roasting green chile. It’s alway a welcome aroma and sight here in the Land of Enchantment. As is a dish like this! A sign that the seasons are changing and fall and the balloons are on the way.

Thanks for sharing the recipe. There are a few ingredients we haven’t tried in our green chile (we make it a few different ways) but the fish sauce has sparked my curiosity - an added umami bomb that is right up Kenji’s alley!

Will definitely get a green chile chicken cook in at some point this month, hopefully!

[OC Sandy]

OOoooh, tempting.

[SheilaAnn]

OC Sandy do it!!

[Mosca]

I’m in on this. I’ll give Wegman’s a little more time on the Hatch peppers before I concede to Anaheims, though. And I’m going to have to scale it down, Mrs won’t be able to eat this. Maybe 1/3. And I’ll do it in the Dutch oven, or the cast iron brazier.

[Hulagn1971]

I've actually made this following the recipe a few times in the past. It is really good. I just might have to knock it out again. Thanks for posting.

[shify]

It’s a good recipe and super easy and I’ve made it a bunch of times.

if time permits, I suggest getting a kiss of smoke on the chicken before dumping it in the pressure cooker - 30-40 min of smoke should suffice. I might also roast off the peppers and tomatillos this time as well

[58limited]

I've gathered the ingredients and I was going to cook this today (double batch) along with some pasta sauce w/ meat but I'm a little lazy so I'm just making the pasta sauce. I'll do the Verde tomorrow. I'm freezing the extra Verde and pasta sauce for later use.

[58limited]

Oh, forgot to mention, I'll be roasting all of the peppers on my new Santa Barbara drum roaster and I'm subbing some of the poblanos for more Hatch chilies. Depending on how much liquid this recipe makes I might add even more chicken to cook (bought a 10 lb bag of leg quarters) and strain the liquid then make tamales with the extra chicken. This will be my first time making tamales, I'll use Masienda masa. Might thaw some pulled pork for tamales too; I'll use ArnieTex's red sauce for them.

[SheilaAnn]

I need to grab the chiles and tomatillos. I have everything else.

[58limited]

LOL. I made a big point of going to HEB for all of the ingredients, got home, and I forgot the tomatillos. Ran to a local Latin market and grabbed them. I've got everything except the energy to do this tonight.

[Mosca]

Ahhhh. Finally. And not just hatch, but Big Jims!

[58limited]

Got it made. I oven roasted the tomatillos, onions, and garlic. All of the peppers were roasted using my new chile roaster. I'll post pics after the 15th. It is delicious!

[Jerod Broussard]

Interesting dish.

[Michael_in_TX]

I think I will join in this week for this one!

[Oak Smoke]

I wish I could! I love that stuff! I have no idea which box contains my cooking utensils. Yesterday Dairy Queen cooked dinner, today it’s Col Sanders.