Category: chiles

Turkey Picadillo Should Be on Your Cinco de Mayo Menu

It takes plenty of seasoning to transform ground meat into craveable dishes. Throughout Latin American cooks add chiles, tomatoes and dried fruit to simple ground pork or beef to create picadillo — a rich chopped meat mixture used to stuff chiles, tacos, appetizers and more. Dark, rich and mildly spicy, ancho chiles add loads of…


Hatch Chile Fever

“First I turn the heat way up. Then I dial it back down.” Hoisting a 40-pound burlap sack of green chiles into the gas-fired roaster at Chile Fanatic in Hatch, New Mexico, Jesus Soto explained how he prepares the surrounding valley’s famous peppers. The flames roared; chiles tumbled in the rotating wire cage; the thick,…