A happy sunday

One weekend, there we were, my mom, an aunt and I, the three of us craving some good Mexican food. So I took out my recipe book to try out some of the dishes it so diligently proposes.

We decided on a combination of Choriquezo with raw green tomato sauce, Rajas (strips) de chile poblano with some Guacamole (has its own post).

RAW GREEN TOMATO SAUCE

- ½ kg green tomatoes without the skin and diced in 4 pieces. (about 12 tomatoes).

-         3 serrano chiles (if not available, the small peppers should suffice), fresh, troceados (diced)

-         ¼ cup of white finely chopped onion

-         ½ tbls of finely chopped garlic

-         ¼ cup of fresh cilantro (coriander), thickly chopped.

-         1 ½ tbls of salt

Blend some of the tomatoes first, no water. Then add the rest of the tomatoes and chiles, and blend for about 20-30 seconds. Add the rest of the ingredients and blend again. Adjust salt.

RAJAS DE CHILE POBLANO

-         6 chiles poblanos

-         3 tbls of olive/corn oil

-         ½ tbls of finely chopped garlic

-         Salt

1.     Put the chiles on a pan until the skin becomes black; then put the chiles inside a plastic bag for about 15 min so they can sweat. Remove the skin from the chiles. Make sure not to touch them directly with your skin, do it through the bag or use gloves.

2.     Cut them in the middle and remove the inside: pulp and seeds. This is the hottest part of the chile so make sure not to touch it.

3.     Cut the chiles in long thin strips. Heat up the oil on a pan to high heat; fry the garlic and add the chile strips. Add salt

CHORIQUESO

-         600gr of melting cheese, grated.

-         Fried chorizo

-         Wheat flour tortillas

1.     Preheat the oven at 200°C.

2.     Put the cheese in a casserole (clay or ceramic), or several small casseroles, and bake for 10 min.

3.     Take out the cheese and mix with a fork. Add chorizo and put back in the oven for 5 more minutes or until the top layer becomes a little brown.

4.     Take them out of the oven, put inside a tortilla and add sauce and rajas!

A beer is always welcome with this meal ;) we certainly did. In the end, a lot more people came to eat and rejoice in this deliciousness