How to Roast Green Chillies!

How to Roast Green Chillies!

My mouth waters every time I see this picture! haha! When I lived in New Mexico my family had a friend, Joe, who we called our "Green Chili Man." He would have us for dinner and roast us some green chillies. Once we moved from there to Tennessee the chillies or jalapeños were never the same! Not even the mexican restaurants satisfied our hungry for hot authentic mexican food, which chillies are used a lot for. We use to have a bunch shipped to us but it is really expensive to do so. My birth mom, Christa, who lives in Oklahoma, she saw some new mexican chillies at her whole foods store and she sent us all some! Now I can have some spicy everything!! It's even good on steak! haha! 

Heres how to roast green chillies.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Wash and put a little slit with a knife in the green chili.
2. Put your oven on Broil. (If you dont have a broiling pan like i do just take a cookie sheet and put some foil on it)
3. Lay your chillies on the sheet. Spread them out evenly and don't let them touch.
4. Put them in the oven for 5 minutes and then flip them over. (they will look like they are getting burned, thats ok..they need to look that way. like in the picture above)
5. Once they are done, let them cool down and then peel them. (if you roasted them long enough they will peel really easy!)
6. Pull the stem off and then peel the skin. 

before peeled and stemmed

after peeled and stemmed

Now what do you do with them? You chop them up and freeze it! Put them chopped chillies in a Gallon sized ziplock bag. Spread it out where it lays flat and freezes that way. So, when you need some all you have to do it break off a piece of it.

what is looks like all chopped up.


I will be making a salsa recipe coming up soon where you can use this green chili (or you can replace it with jalapeños is you want), so be on the look out for that! You can put this on Steak, Chicken Fajitas, Pork, pretty much ANYTHING! lol 



WARNING! DO NOT TOUCH YOUR EYES WHEN ROASTING, PEELING, OR CHOPPING GREEN CHILLIES! WASH HANDS THROUGHLY AFTER AND MANY TIMES AFTER!

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