This Hatch Green Chile Pork Slow Cooker Stew is delicious with fresh green chiles. And it just warms the heart and soul with spicy comfort.
This post contains affiliate links which means if you make a purchase we might receive a small commission at no additional cost to you.
It’s a Green Chile Pork Stew that’s loaded with Hatch Green chiles, pork, potatoes, and spices. Which makes it a great bowl of comfort to warm the soul.
One thing that I miss about New Mexico is the abundance of fresh green chiles We lived near Hatch New Mexico and reaped the benefit of fresh Hatch Green Chiles every fall.
I absolutely love the smell of roasting green chile and most of the New Mexico air is just alive with the aroma during harvest season. We would buy a gunny sack full of fresh green chiles and have them roasted on the spot.
These chile roasters are all over town during harvest, even at Walmart and our local grocery stores. They place the fresh chiles into the drum of the roaster and a burner is lite. The roaster drum tumbles the chiles past the open flame.
When the chiles are roasted, the flame is turned off and the drum continues to turn so most of the seeds and skins fall off. We pack them in a big trash bag to take home to separate and freeze. The aroma is heavenly and just hangs over the entire area. Roasted Green Chiles is one of my all time favorite smells.
We separate our fresh chiles and freeze them with our Foodsaver Vacuum Sealer. This way we have fresh green chiles in our freezer all year.
As soon the weather turns just a little cool, enjoy a batch of our Hatch Green Chile Stew. It’s best served it with corn tortillas or flour tortillas but we are sure it also would be delicious with homemade cornbread. But if you don’t live near Hatch New Mexico, you can still enjoy fresh green chiles by buying Hatch Fresh Green Chiles already frozen online right here
Hatch Green Chile Pork Stew
Chunks of pork, potato and green chile in a seasoned Mexican green sauce.
Prep Time20 mins
Slow Cooker6 hrs
Servings: 6
Ingredients
- 3 lbs Pork shoulder cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- 1-2 tablespoons olive oil
- 6-7 Hatch green chile roasted and chopped into 1/2″ pieces or 1(14oz) can of chopped green chiles
- 1 large onion chopped (about 1 cup)
- 3 whole potatoes peeled and cubed
- 5 cloves garlic minced
- 1 tablespoon Mexican oregano
- 1 tablespoon cumin
- 2 tablespoons cider vinegar
- 2 cups chicken broth
- 1 10 oz can green enchilada sauce
- 1/2 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Pepper
- Flour Tortillas
Instructions
- Season pork cubes with salt and pepper and brown in a large dutch oven with the olive oil over medium-high heat until brown in batches.
- Remove the pork cubes and allow to drain on paper towels.
- Add chopped onions in the dutch oven and cook until soft and translucent about 5-6 minutes.
- Add green chiles, garlic, cumin, oregano and cook for 1minute.
- Add vinegar and stir to deglaze the pan, pour in the enchilada sauce and chicken broth, heat.
- Place pork cubes in a slow cooker, pour the sauce from the Dutch oven over the pork, add the potatoes and cook for 3-4 hours on low.
- Pork will be tender and the sauce will be thickened.
- Serve with heated tortillas on the side
If you enjoyed this Green Chile Pork Slow Cooker Stew then:
Love Cast Iron?
Join us and receive "How to Season and Care for Cast Iron" ebook and weekly email newlestters to what's cooking at the Ranch.
Julia from It's Always Ruetten
August 18, 2014 at 5:40 pmYum, yum! I got the first green chile wiff at Albertson's this weekend! What a great time of year!
Michelle Meche
September 21, 2014 at 7:19 pmHonestly, I've always been kinda jealous of New Mexicans and their roasted chiles! My opinion is that roasting is just about the best thing that can be done to chiles. I've never had green chile stew…looks yummy!
Miz Helen
September 22, 2014 at 2:23 pmThis is our kind of stew, we would love your Green Chile Stew! Thanks so much for sharing your awesome recipe with us at Full Plate Thursday this week. Hope you have a fantastic day and come back real soon!
Miz Helen
Cynthia Landrie
September 22, 2014 at 7:37 pmI love Green Chile Stew! This will be a wonderful meal for those cold winter nights! Yum! Thanks for linking to the In and Out of the Kitchen party. Your stew was the most viewed post from last week.
Jamie Sherman
September 14, 2015 at 4:34 pmI bet this would be so warming on a cold night!!
Linda Nortje
September 14, 2015 at 5:44 pmLooks great, Evelyn ! I'm slowly getting to "like" chili meals 🙂
Lydia
November 19, 2018 at 1:02 pmWhat size and type of potatoes do you use?
Evelyn
November 19, 2018 at 1:22 pmI use 3 medium potatoes usually russet potatoes but I have used small red skinned ones also. 3 medium potatoes is about 1 pound. Hopefully, this helps. Thanks
Lydia
November 19, 2018 at 1:49 pmThanks so much!
Evelyn
November 19, 2018 at 2:16 pmYou are very welcome! Enjoy!
Jim
April 10, 2019 at 10:08 pmI cooked this and found it to be great
The only thing I would change is to cook it on high for 4 to 5 hours so that the meat will be tender I did and it was great.