It’s Hatch Chile Roasting Time!
The Hatch Chile Festival is happening this weekend in Hatch, New Mexico, the “Chile Capital of the World.” Although we won’t be making it to the festival, we will be making Hatch Chile Salsa.
Remove the skin, stems and seeds from the roasted chiles.
Put the chiles (about six to eight) in a food processor with a half of chopped white onion, and a couple cloves of garlic.
Pulse until the mixture is chunky (don’t over blend). Hatch chiles come in varying degrees of heat. These were the Sandia variety and they were hot!
Add a tomato to the salsa mixture. This beauty is a Golden Jubilee heirloom tomato. To remove the skin, submerge the tomato in boiling water for ten seconds.
Score the skin with a paring knife and it will slide right off. Cut the tomato into quarters and squeeze out the seeds. The Golden Jubilee is a mild tomato with a small amount of seeds and meaty flesh. Perfect for salsa. Put tomato in the food processor with the chiles and pulse again. Then add fresh squeezed lime juice, a little grapeseed oil and salt to taste. Pulse to combine. This smokey hot salsa is really good with grilled foods!
Labor Day Weekend Grillin’
Swordfish with Hatch Chile Salsa
Filet Mignon with Ajvar
Zucchini, Mushrooms, Onions
What are you grilling this weekend?
HaPpY LaBoR DaY!
LABOR DAY UPDATE 9.07.09
This morning we participated in
“Conquer the Bridge.”
A 5 mile run/walk over
The Vincent Thomas Bridge here in San Pedro at
The Port of Los Angeles.
It was awesome!
Happy Labor Day!
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Perfect timing. I jut picked a bushel of chiles over the weekend.
Wonderful salsa Lori Lynn! I am deficient in the chili department.. I love coming here and learning about foods I barely have scratched the surface on. I would LOVE to try this on swordfish!! Thanks for sharing!!
what is the rating for those hatch chiles?
i found out that eating chillies can kill off the bad bacteria in our gut.
Get photo of the market. Most of the market here in Texas have been roasting peppers in front of their stores. I love to pass by and smell that spicy pepper air. Great salsa.
Happy Labor day to you too!
The festival sounds like fun. Did you roast the chilies on the grill before putting them in the food processor?