Holiday red chile sauce nm

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
24 Dried red chile pods (mild to hot according to taste)
4 cups Water; (4 to 5)
2 teaspoons Ground cumin
2 teaspoons Salt
2 Cloves garlic; minced
¼ cup Dried onion flakes
1 tablespoon Tomato sauce(optional)

Directions

Blend 6 chile pods with 1 cup of water in a blender, then strain through a sieve into a saucepan and scrape the sides of the sieve if necessary to make the juice drain through. Discard the seeds, etc. Then repeat the process until all the chile is blended. Add the rest of the ingredients to the saucepan, place over low heat and cook for 15 minutes. When hot, place in a small bowl and serve on the side with the posole. ~ Lynn Nusom is the author of nine cookbooks, including Christmas in New Mexico, The New Mexico Cook Book, The Tequila Cook Book, The Sizzling Southwestem Cookbook and more than 650 newspaper and magazine articles on cooking and travel.

Recipe by: Lynn Nusom

Posted to MC-Recipe Digest V1 #929 by Walt Gray <waltgray@...> on Nov 28, 1997

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