Here you have another Mexican dish!! This one
has to be my favorite dish of all times, I could eat them every week! Stuffed
Poblano Peppers Mexican Style! So delicious!! I hope you like them!
Ingredients for the peppers:
- 6 poblano peppers
- 4 large eggs
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- +1 tbsp all purpose flour
- ½ tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp Salt
- +vegetable oil for frying
- +toothpick (2 per each peppers)
Ingredients For the filling:
- 1 lb ground meat
- 150 g Oaxaca Cheese
- ½ small Onion (shredded or diced)
- 1 roma tomato (shredded or diced)
- 1 cube chicken flavor bouillon
- +½ tbsp vegetable oil
Ingredients For the tomato sauce:
- 5 roma tomatoes
- Small chunk of Onion
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 cube chicken flavor bouillon
- ½ tsp dry Orégano
- ½ tbsp vegetable oil
Prepare the peppers:
In a large skillet or griddle on high heat,
roast the peppers on all sides for a few minutes on each side, until they get
blisters all over. Once the peppers are ready, place them inside a
plastic bag, close the bag, cover it with a clean kitchen towel, and let the
peppers there to cool.
Once the peppers are cold, now remove the skin
from them. The skin will come off really easily, just rub the chili skin with
your fingers and it should come off right away.
After you remove the skin, now right on the
center of each pepper make a small cut (about 1 ½ inch or 2 inches), the cut
should be just big enough so you can stuff the peppers.
Repeat these steps until you are done.
To make the filling:
Cut the cheese in small pieces, or you can shred
the cheese if you prefer so.
In a large skillet, now heat up a bit of oil on
medium high heat, and cook the ground meat for about 8 minutes or just until
the meat is not longer pink, then add in a cube of chicken flavor bouillon,
make sure to break down the cube really well so it will get well dissolved,
stir, until the meat is well seasoned, then add in the shredded onion and
shredded tomato, stir and continue to cook for about 7 more minutes or
until the meat is cooked and there is no more cooking liquid in the skillet.
Set aside to cool down.
To make the tomato sauce:
Place the tomatoes in a saucepan with plenty of
water and cook them on high for about 10 minutes or until the tomatoes are
soft. Then place the tomatoes in the blender together with a chunk
of onion, one garlic clove, and one cube of chicken flavor bouillon, also add
in about half a cup of water or chicken broth and blend until well blended.
In a saucepan add a splash of oil, then add in
the tomato sauce, and cook on medium heat until it boils. Once it’s
boiling, taste the flavor add salt if needed and also add in a teaspoon of dry
oregano, stir and continue to boil on low heat for five more minutes.
Stuff the peppers:
I will stuff three of the peppers with cheese
and the other three with the ground meat mixture.
So stuff your peppers, add as much of the
filling as you like. Then use toothpicks to keep the peppers well closed.
Place half a cup of flour on a large plate, now
cover the already stuffed peppers with the flour on all sides. Tap them a bit
to remove the excess flour.
On medium heat, heat up plenty of oil.
To make the batter:
Separate the egg whites from the egg yolks .
With an electric mixer, beat the egg whites
until thick and fluffy (for about 3 minutes on high). Then add in the egg
yolks together with one tablespoon of flour and salt and pepper to taste. Beat
on high until everything is just well incorporated.
Finish the peppers:
Grab a pepper (remember they are already
floured), Dip the pepper in the egg mixture and make sure the pepper is well
coated with the egg mixture on all sides, (the egg mixture is really
thick and fluffy, so you might need to use a spoon to help you cover the
peppers with the mixture) Tap to remove the excess egg mixture then transfer
the pepper to the hot oil, and cook for a few minutes on each side.
You want them to get nice and golden brown on all sides.
Once the pepper is done, remove it from the oil
and place it on paper towels to absorb the excess oil.
Keep on repeating these steps until you are
done..
To serve:
Add some of the tomato sauce on your plate, top
it with a Stuffed pepper, serve with some white rice, garnish with green onions
and more tomato sauce on top!
Enjoy!
