Fajita-Stuffed Hatch Green Chile
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Recipe type: Dinner
Cuisine: Southwestern New Mexican
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Serves: 4
 
Fresh harvest ingredients make a delicious filling for this recipe for fajita-stuffed Hatch green chile--it's a taste of New Mexico for dinner!
Ingredients
  • 4 Hatch, Anaheim, or poblano chile peppers
  • 1 steak of your choice sliced into short strips or ½ pound of ground beef
  • 2 medium bell peppers, sliced
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • The kernels from 2 ears of corn, about a cup
  • ½ C. cotija cheese, or any type of mild Mexican or Spanish cheese (although cheddar would work well, as well)
  • 1 garlic clove, thinly chopped
  • 1 tsp. cumin
  • 1 tsp. dried oregano
  • ½ tsp. garlic salt
  • ½ tsp. smoked paprika (or regular paprika, if you don’t have smoked)
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 350°.
  2. Chop the steak into short, thin strips. Chop the peppers and onion into strips and finely chop the garlic clove. Place the large end of the ear of corn into a bowl and cut off the kernels.
  3. Heat a tablespoon of olive oil or other neutral oil into a pan over medium to medium-high heat. Saute the onions and garlic until translucent, then add in the steak, peppers, and corn. Add the spices. Sauté until the outside of the steak is done, but the inside is still red.
  4. Remove the filling into a bowl and mix with half of the cheese.
  5. Cut open the chile peppers, but don’t cut the top off. Carefully remove all the seeds. WARNING: Do not touch your skin after handling the chile pods or seeds, especially your eyes, because it will burn you! Wash your hands thoroughly before you touch anything else, or use gloves like I do.
  6. Place the peppers onto a foil-lined pan and spoon the filling into the peppers.
  7. Place the peppers into the oven for 30 minutes, or until the peppers are soft and the cheese has browned and/or melted.
  8. Take out of the oven and sprinkle the rest of the cheese on top before serving the peppers.
Recipe by Flurries of Flour at https://flurriesofflour.com/2016/09/fajita-stuffed-hatch-green-chile/