pork enchiladas - green sauce or red sauce?

[LuluTheMagnificent]

I have pork left over from crockpot, want to make pork enchiladas, should I use green sauce or red? I'm thinking green since pork is white meat.

[Veggo]

Green sauce can be chili or tomatillo based, which are quite different, or a blend of the two. Green sauce voters here should specify which, IMO. Either has its fans.

[Will Owen]

I always use both chiles and tomatillos, just because they get along so well. And I don't invite the cilantro-haters over, either.

[LuluTheMagnificent]

re: cilantro haters: I will remember this. I am always trying to please or convert them.

[Will Owen]

Most can't be converted, and I'm convinced it's not their fault. It's just that their tasting apparatus is so tuned that cilantro doesn't just taste a tad soapy, but like SOAP. I know my first taste of it I was briefly repelled, then strangely charmed, then an avid partisan, because of that first soapy funkiness. Some people don't even taste that, but others taste nothing else.

[jpc8015]

Green

[shallots]

If you had Carnitas, a tomatillo sauce with a melting Mexican cheese would make an excellent burrito quickly.

[paul balbin]

If it is Hatch chili, green. If Chemayo, red

[dave_c]

Green.

[JerryMe]

I always use green for pork and chicken. Red I use for beef

[todao]

Ditto dave_c

[LuluTheMagnificent]

This is what I always thought too.

[ChiliDude]

In New Mexico one may opt for green. I'm on the East Coast. I always opt for red. Either one can produce the desired heat.

I think the state question of NM is "Red or Green?"

[dustchick]

And my usual answer is "Both". Love sampling the sauces in NM. I was thinking that if I were the OP, I'd stew the pork in red sauce, but sauce the enchiladas themselves with green. Mmm...

[LuluTheMagnificent]

This sounds like what I might do.

[Madrid]

yeah, in NM they often serve both red and green, if you ask for "Christmas." I do like both.

[katecm]

Definitely. Throw in some diced pineapple and cilantro if you have it handy.

[LuluTheMagnificent]

I have cilantro, where should I put the pineapple? This sounds interesting.

[katecm]

Come to think of it, my original inclination was to chop it and mix it with the pork, but you could also make a pineapple and cilantro salsa to serve on top to brighten everything up.

[LuluTheMagnificent]

I am making these tonight and I'm just going to put them inside six enchiladas . YUM! I like pineapple on my pork tacos, but never thought about adding some inside enchiladas. Thank you!