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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 for such things as our Chile Verde recipe.
How to make New Mexico Green Chile Stew:
Start your green chile stew with 3lbs of pork shoulder cut into 1/2 inch cubes. We always cut away most of the fat but leave some for flavoring.
Liberally season with kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper. Toss the meat to cover all sides to make this chile Verde recipe.
Place pork cubes in a large dutch oven with the olive oil over medium-high heat until brown. You might have to do this in batches to make sure that it browns and not boils.
Remove the pork cubes from the dutch oven and set aside. We use a pie plate and cover to keep warm until all the pork cubes are cooked.
Chop 1 whole white onion to equal one cup and mince 5 cloves of peeled garlic. We use this rubber tubey thingy Garlic Peeler which works amazingly well. And we have thrown out all our garlic mincers since we purchased this Green Garlic Chopper. It’ makes my heart happy and makes using fresh garlic a breeze.
If you enjoyed this Green Chile Pork Slow Cooker Stew or Chile Verde Recipe then try these:
- Hatch Green Chile Strips with Teriyaki Dipping Sauce
- Chicken Enchilada Casserole with Green Chiles
- Chile Relleno Casserole
Hatch Green Chile Pork Stew
Equipment
- Slow Cooker
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
Nutrition
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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.