Green Chili with Roasted Anaheim Peppers

[frankiii]

I wanted to make something that showcased some of the flavors I could get from smoking fruits and vegetable in my new CookShack smoker. Thought people might be interested. It is sort of a Louisiana/New Mexico style dish, too bad you cant get Hatch Chilies this time of year.

Green Chili with Roasted Anaheim Peppers

I pound dried great northern beans (or cannellini)
1 pound ground pork
1 large yellow onion, finely minced
3 cloves smoked garlic (right out of the CookShack Smokette)
1 smoked key lime (likewise)
5 roasted and peeled Anaheim Peppers
2 tsp. Mexican Oregano (I like the Rancho Gordo product)
2 tsp. fresh toasted and ground cumin seeds
Salt to taste
I 12 or 16 oz beer such as Miller High Life
6 to 8 cups of stock (vegetable, chicken or pork will do)

Sort and rinse the beans then soak overnight and cook without salt or stock, just beer and water until just about done and much of the water is gone (stock cubes are great in this recipe because you don’t have to add more liquid volume) Brown the meat in a little oil. Sauté the remaining ingredients in the rendered fat as you would imagine, adding the spices at the end. Chop up the roasted, peeled and seeded Anaheim Peppers and stir them in. Cook on low to combine flavors but not until the point where the beans have gone to much. This can be made without meat.

A hint of unsweetened white cacao powder or nutmeg at the end adds a nice complexity. Any deglazing can be done with cider vinegar or sherry.

[leanneabe]

Do you smoke the chiles, too? Or do you just roast them the "normal" way?

How long do you smoke garlic?

[frankiii]

These chilies I roasted on my grill until the skins were black. Let them cool and peeled and seeded them. So yeah, the normal way. If that is how you normally do it. ☺

As far as the garlic goes, I smoked whole heads with the bottoms sliced off in my smoker with about 2 oz of hickory for around 3 and 1/2 hours at 225 or so. I smoked them with some jalapenos and key limes as well so if you just did garlic you might want to cut down on the wood (if you are using an electric box smoker that is). Hope that helps.