Chiles en Nogada

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Chiles en Nogada

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. Dice apples, pears, onion, and peaches and place in a bowl to the side.
  2. Put oil in a large skillet. Add ground beef, ground pork, salt, pepper and brown.
  3. Put fruit and onions into skillet. Add salt, pepper, garlic powder. Stir well.
  4. Bring mixture to a boil and simmer uncovered to reduce liquid.
  5. When the liquid has reduced enough add the tomato sauce and slivered almonds. Reduce again until the mixture is a reasonable thickness for stuffing.
  6. Broil Pablanos at 500° for 7 minutes each side or until 60-80% a side
  7. Put charred pablanos in a bowl. Cover with plastic to steam for 10-15 minutes.
  8. Peel off outside charred skin from each pepper. Make a slit down the middle with a knife and use a spoon to clean out seeds.
  9. Stuff each pepper with filling. If peppers fall apart from being over steamed or over worked consider making a layered dish with alternating peppers/filling.
  10. Soak walnuts in warm water for 20+ minutes.
  11. In a food processor, put walnuts, cream cheese, milk, and honey. Blend on high until walnuts are as blended and bit sized / invisible as possible.
  12. Place a strainer over a bowl. Strain sauce into bowl, working with wooden spoon to get through leftover walnut bits.
  13. Serve stuffed peppers with sauce as desired.