Colorado Green Chili

Description

This is a vegetarian green chili that you find all over Colorado. Goes great over breakfast burritos, cheeseburgers, fried eggs or anything.

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Hatch chile peppers
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • 4 cloves garlic, minced, or more to taste
  • 1 (14.5 ounce) can diced tomatoes
  • 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
  • 5 cups vegetable broth
  • 2 tablespoons ground cumin
  • 2 tablespoons chili powder, or to taste
  • 1 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Set oven rack about 6 inches from the heat source and preheat the oven’s broiler.
  2. Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil; spread Hatch chile peppers on top.
  3. Cook under the preheated broiler
  4. turning once
  5. until the skin of the peppers has blackened and blistered
  6. 6 to 8 minutes. Transfer to a bowl and seal tightly with plastic wrap. Let cool
  7. about 20 minutes. Peel and seed peppers; dice flesh.
  8. Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; cook and stir until softened
  9. about 5 minutes. Stir in diced chile peppers and tomatoes. Cook until heated through
  10. about 5 minutes. Sprinkle flour into the pot.
  11. Pour broth into the pot; add cumin
  12. chili powder
  13. and salt. Bring to a boil; reduce heat and simmer until flavors combine
  14. at least 30 minutes.

Prep Time: 20 mins

Cook Time: 51 mins

Total Time: 1 hr 31 mins

Servings: 8

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