366 48 208 48zM0 208C0 93. This authentic chile relleno recipe is a traditional Mexican dish of flavorful chilies stuffed with cheese, battered and fried, then smothered in a homemade sauce. This authentic chile relleno best chile recipe is a traditional Mexican dish of flavorful chiles stuffed with cheese, battered and fried, then smothered in a homemade sauce. This recipe was originally posted in June of 2018.
While most of the chefs I talked with use a 5 cups of water and simmer it down over 45 minutes to an hour, I know it has turned out too watery for a lot of you. So I reduced the water to 4 cups. I’ve talked through this recipe with several chefs from our trips to Mexico, and know it’s the real deal. While there are a lot steps to making chile rellenos, it only takes about an hour and the end result is an impressive explosion of flavor and texture that is well worth the effort.
Chile relleno is a chile pepper that is stuffed, battered, and fried. The original chile relleno was often stuffed with meat. In current Mexican cuisine, chile rellenos are typically stuffed with cheese and served with a tomato based sauce. WHAT KIND OF PEPPER IS USED IN CHILE RELLENO? You can use either anaheim peppers or poblano peppers to make chile relleno.
Just go with whatever pepper is easily available to you. If you have both options, choose the pepper that matches the flavor and level of heat you would like. We use poblano peppers because I find the shape really easy to work with. This mild chile is also called ancho chile when dried. So the mildest anaheim pepper will be less spicy than the mildest poblano, but the hottest anaheim will be more spicy than the hottest poblano.
Here is a Scoville Scale chart if you’d like a guide to how spicy peppers are. We typically choose poblano peppers so our kids don’t get an anaheim on the hotter end. For reference, both poblanos and anaheim peppers are milder than jalapenos which are 2,500-5,000 on the scoville scale. I use a jalapeno in the chile relleno sauce so the sauce is a bit spicier than than the stuffed peppers. Roasting, brining, and stuffing the poblano peppers. Coating stuffed peppers in chile relleno batter and frying. HOW DO I ROAST POBLANO PEPPERS?