Mexican cuisine is renowned for its bold flavors, and red chile sauce, also known as chile colorado mexicano, is a fundamental component of many iconic dishes. This versatile sauce’s distinct, slightly spicy flavor and vibrant red hue bring life to various culinary creations. Whether you're cooking traditional Mexican dishes or experimenting with fusion cuisine, mastering the art of preparing chile colorado mexicano opens up a world of culinary possibilities.
Here are our top 6 tried and tested recipes!
MEXICAN RED CHILE SAUCE
Salsa de Chile Rojo. This is based on a recipe from Sunset's Mexican Cook Book. Sunset recommends mild dried chiles, ones that are large and dusky-red. Use as an enchilada sauce.
Provided by mersaydees
Categories Sauces
Time 2h20m
Yield 3 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.
- Place chiles on a baking sheet. Toast lightly in oven, 3 or 4 minutes, until they give off a mild aroma. Do not burn, otherwise, chiles will be very bitter.
- Remove chiles from oven and set aside until cool enough to handle.
- Remove and discard stems, seeds, and any pink pithy materials.
- Rinse chiles in cool water, drain briefly, then cover with hot water and soak for an hour.
- Process chiles in blender with enough of the soaking water to obtain a nice, blended consistency.
- Add remaining water, tomato sauce, garlic, oil, salt, oregano, and cumin. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Sauce can be refrigerated for up to 1 week or frozen for later use.
AUTHENTIC MEXICAN RED CHILE SAUCE
Ancho chile peppers are the dried version of the poblano, while Pasilla chile peppers are the dried version of the chilaca pepper. Both are similar, yet different. They are often times mislabeled in many grocery stores.
Provided by Sheryl
Categories Condiment
Time 25m
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Remove the stem of each dried chile. Shake out as many of the seeds as possible. (Make sure you are wearing gloves, and avoid touching your eyes/face).
- Heat your skillet on medium heat. Place your dried chiles on the skillet, pressing them down to toast them slightly on each side (10-15 seconds). You don't want to burn them or it will result in bitter sauce.
- Add your chiles to a small saucepan, add water (just enough to cover). Bring to a boil, turn off the heat. Allow them to sit for up to 10 minutes to rehydrate.
- Remove the chiles from the soaking water and place them in a blender. Add just under two cups of the soaking liquid. (If your soaking liquid is bitter then discard and add regular water).
- Puree for 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Pour through a fine mesh strainer into a skillet with the olive oil. Bring the sauce to a low simmer, add your salt, and any additional optional ingredients.
- Brown sugar will tone down the spice, while cocoa/cacao will compliment the spicy sauce. Consider adding a pinch of any of the optional ingredients or more based on your preference.
- Skim off the foam as the sauce simmers, then remove from the heat and store in a glass jar. Refrigerate and use within one week.
RED CHILE SAUCE (CHILE COLORADO)
An easy Red Chile Sauce (Chile Colorado) recipe
Categories Condiment/Spread Sauce Blender Vinegar Spice Hot Pepper Gourmet
Yield Makes about 2 1/2 cups
Number Of Ingredients 12
Steps:
- Rinse chiles and split open, discarding stems, seeds, and ribs.
- Heat a well-seasoned cast-iron skillet over moderate heat, then toast chiles, skin sides up, in batches, about 30 seconds (be careful not to burn them, or sauce will be bitter). Transfer chiles as toasted to a heatproof bowl and pour boiling water over them. Cover bowl and soak chiles, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 15 minutes.
- Purée chiles with three fourths of soaking liquid, reserving remainder, in a blender until smooth (use caution when blending hot liquids). Pour purée through a coarse sieve into a bowl, pressing on solids, and discard solids. Whisk reserved soaking liquid into chile mixture.
- Cook onion, garlic, cumin, and oregano in oil in a large heavy saucepan over moderately low heat, stirring, 2 minutes. Add flour and cook, stirring, 2 minutes. Whisk in chile mixture and simmer, partially covered, whisking occasionally, until reduced to about 2 1/2 cups, about 30 minutes. Season with salt, vinegar, and sugar.
CHILE COLORADO (BASIC RED CHILE SAUCE)
Make and share this Chile Colorado (Basic Red Chile Sauce) recipe from Food.com.
Provided by tornadoes three
Categories Sauces
Time 15m
Yield 2 cups, 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 7
Steps:
- Heat shortening in a medium saucepan on medium heat.
- Stir in flour and cook for 1 minute.
- Add chile powder and cook for an additional minute.
- Gradually add the water and stir, making sure that no lumps form.
- Add seasonings to sauce and simmer at low heat for 10-15 minutes.***.
- * Red Chile recipe above. Varied amounts and variety of chile will determine the degree of hotness.
- ** For a more mild flavor, tomato juice may be substituted.
- *** Last red chile can be very bitter if it doesn't simmer long enough. Please let it simmer for AT LEAST 10 minutes As always, the longer it simmers the hotter it will be -- but you don't want bitter red chile. TRUST ME.
- NOTE: One pound of cooked beef or pork, ground, cubed, or shredded,may be added.
- Also can be served over pork chops or used as a gravy for mashed potatoes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 95.3, Fat 7.8, SaturatedFat 1.8, Sodium 517.3, Carbohydrate 7.2, Fiber 2.8, Sugar 0.6, Protein 1.4
NEW MEXICO RED CHILE SAUCE
Red chile is a staple of the New Mexican and West Texan diet, and this recipe is my grandmother's recipe. When I make it, it reminds me of the smells of her cooking in her kitchen, fresh corn tortillas, beans, and red chile peppers. You can kick up the spiciness by adding more arbol chile pods.
Provided by Cookincwgrl
Categories Side Dish Sauces and Condiments Recipes Sauce Recipes
Time 43m
Yield 4
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Coat the bottom of a heavy saucepan with oil; add chile pods. Toast over medium heat until aromatic, about 3 minutes.
- Stir in onion and garlic; cook and stir until fragrant, about 5 minutes. Add enough chicken stock to allow pods to float; simmer until they develop the texture of wet leather, 5 to 7 minutes.
- Fill blender halfway with chile-stock mixture. Cover and hold lid down with a potholder; pulse a few times before leaving on to blend. Pour into a bowl; repeat with remaining mixture. Strain sauce through a fine mesh strainer into a saucepan over medium heat. Discard solids.
- Stir cumin, coriander, and oregano into the saucepan; add honey. Cook until sauce is thick and evenly coats the back of a spoon, about 10 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 370.9 calories, Carbohydrate 52.3 g, Cholesterol 0.7 mg, Fat 8.1 g, Fiber 2 g, Protein 11.7 g, SaturatedFat 0.8 g, Sodium 711.9 mg, Sugar 6.5 g
MEXICAN RED CHILE SAUCE, CHILE COLORADO MEXICANO
When making Mexican Tamales, Enchiladas, Posole, Menudo, and various Moles they all have one thing in common. They all start off with a deep red chile sauce that is derived from dried Ancho, Pasilla & Mulatos Chile Peppers. Pictured is a small freezer bag of frozen red chile. This is the base seasoning for truly delicious authentic flavor only the dried Ancho/Pasilla chile peppers will do. I buy a combination of dried Ancho, Pasilla, and the black Mulatos if you can't find Mulatos then use Guajillos, the Mulatos are harder to come by. I clean & remove all seeds and reconstitue them. I blend them into a saucy paste and add seasonings and then freeze them in freezer bags about 8 ounces to a bag I keep a large stock and when ever I want to make a traditional dish my chile is ready to use. Here is the recipe for the base for all of the great dishes mentioned above Enjoy.
Provided by Juliann Esquivel @Juliann
Categories Other Sauces
Number Of Ingredients 11
Steps:
- Clean the dried peppers by removing the stems and opening them up and removing the seeds. Please be sure to remove all the seeds. After cleaning all of the dried chile peppers put into a large pot with the quarted onions and cover with cold water bring to a steady boil over high heat. Let boil fast for 3 minutes, then reduce the flame to medium low and let simmer for 12 minutes. Remove from the flame and let cool on a back burner for an hour or so.
- Next working in batches remove with a large slotted spoon; to a blender add a clove of garlic, break a piece of chocolate of of the tablet, (I place the tablets in a plastic freezer bag and hit the tablets with a wooden meat mallet to break in small pieces) do not break up to small. Add a tsp of peanut butter, a piece of the boiled onion and just about a 1/4 cup of the chile water where you boiled the chiles in. Process in the blender on high until you have a smooth paste. With a rubber spatula scrape out all of the chile paste into a deep bowl. Continue this step again until you have processed all of the chiles with the garlic, onion,peanut butter, chocolate and chile water. After all is ground into a chile sauce add the dry seasonings ground cumin, oregano salt and garlic powder.
- Stir the chile sauce until all of the seasonings are well incorporated. With a measuring cup measure out 8 ounces into each small freezer bag until you have used all of the chile sauce. Seal each bag and freeze. If you wont be using this much sauce you can cut down your chiles to about one pound of each type of dried chiles mentioned above; and reduce your seasonings and garlic cloves and chocolate. Figure one medium onion, 2 cloves of garlic per pound of chiles, Half tablet of chocolate per pound, reduce seasonins to 3 tsps of cumin, half teaspoon of oregano, 3 tsps salt 1/2 tsp garlic powder.
- Freeze bags and enjoy the real authentic Mexican flavor for your Mexican dishes. This chile freezes well and can be kept frozen for up to a year. Enjoy
- This chile sauce cannot be eaten like this. This is the base beginning to many truly authentic Mexican dishes.
Tips:
- For a spicier sauce, use more ancho and guajillo peppers, and reduce the amount of pasilla peppers.
- If you don't have any guajillo peppers, you can substitute an equal amount of ancho peppers.
- If you don't have any pasilla peppers, you can substitute an equal amount of mulato peppers.
- To make the sauce ahead of time, let it cool completely and then store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks, or in the freezer for up to 6 months.
- When you're ready to use the sauce, thaw it overnight in the refrigerator or at room temperature for several hours.
Conclusion:
This Mexican red chile sauce is a versatile and flavorful sauce that can be used in a variety of dishes. It's perfect for enchiladas, tamales, tacos, and burritos. It can also be used as a marinade for chicken, beef, or pork. With its rich, smoky flavor, this sauce is sure to be a hit at your next Mexican-themed party or gathering.
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