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Ancho Chile Chicken Soft Tacos

Tuesday, March 6th, 2012

Ancho Chile Chicken Tacos

After writing this up, I discovered I already put this recipe up but I’d used fish! Well, I changed it very slightly but I guess that means I really like this one!

4 rehydrated ancho chiles (save the liquid)
1 small yellow onion
3 cloves garlic
2 T white wine vinegar
salt

Blend everything in the list together in the blender along with some of the rehydrating liquid to thin it out and make it into a saucy marinade.

Cut chicken breasts up into 1-2″ pieces and put them into the ancho paste. Leave it in there as long as you have. I had about an hour.

In the meantime, make some rice, heat up some black beans, make some guacamole (avocado, grated onion, lots of lemon juice, a dash of cayenne and salt).

Cook the chicken in a pan over medium heat until the chicken is cooked through.

To serve, warm some tortillas, and put the chicken, guacamole, some salsa and a bit of cilantro in them. Beans and rice on the side.

Don’t forget the margaritas!!

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Fish in Ancho Chile Paste

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009

This is a quick and easy, tasty mexican-style dinner. Outside of the guacamole, it’s all ingredients that are easy to keep on hand and you can use fish, shrimp or chicken…even beef I guess although I’ve never tried that.

Put 2 dried ancho chiles in a dish w/ enough boiling water to cover them. Let them rehydrate for about 10 minutes.

In a blender:
1/2 onion
2 garlic cloves
juice of 1 lemon
salt
3T or so olive oil
2-3 rehydrated ancho chiles

Puree. If it’s too thick, add a little of the water used to rehydrate the chiles.

Pour this over 1 lb of fish of your choice, I used mahi mahi, cut into 1-inch cubes. Let it sit for at least 30min.

Dump the whole thing, sauce and fish, into a pan on medium-high heat. Cook until fish is done.

Serve w/ tortillas, rice, beans, guacamoles and garnish w/ some limes (the lime juice makes it).

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Gargantuan Reed Avocados

Thursday, September 17th, 2009


I don’t think I’d ever seen a Reed avocado before. I’m pretty sure I’d remember. I bought one for $5. Yes, just one. It was about the size as an infant’s head!! I made a batch of guacamole out of it for four of us and we couldn’t finish it there was so much. It mashed up into a much creamier dip than the typical Haas avocado does. If you can find them, it’s worth the splurge. They really aren’t far more expensive than a typical avocado since you get so much from one (I’d say mine was equivalent to about three regular size avocados). They should still be available now but I think their season is short.

This is what I would consider a small Reed next to a large Haas. I, unfortunately, didn’t get a picture of the GARGANTUAN Reed before hacking it into guacamole bits.

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