I have substituted pasilla peppers if I can't
find ancho peppers with great results.
do you think it would make that much of a difference to try to
find the ancho chili powder?
Not exact matches
We were amazed to even
find Italian - made
Ancho Chocolate.
I couldn't
find canned chipotle chiles at the store I went to (and I live in TX... weird), so I sub «ed
ancho chile powder instead (2 tsp, roughly).
I
find one pound of ground beef is enough in this recipe; i have never used the carrots; never added the celery, but do substitute celery salt for the salt; i have on occasion added green pepper; I typically use three cans of diced tomatoes instead of the one can and can of purée; instead of the 2 tbsp chili powder i use ground
ancho chilis.
Ancho chili powder can be
found at Whole Foods or in the Latin section of many grocery stores.
I
found that a combination of rich and raisin - y
ancho chilies along with bright guajillo chilies was a great complement to the pork.
Here are some I
found particularly appealing: Thai Ground Pork Salad, Root Vegetable Gratin, Shrimp and Feta Stuffed Zucchini, Penne with Asparagus, Sage, and Peas, Apricot Basil Shortbread Tart, and Roasted Yucatan Chicken marinated in Citrus Juice and
Ancho Chili.
I've actually never
found it in my standard grocery stores here in Canada, but I've made it (or at least a tasty approximation) by soaking 5 or 6 dried
ancho or guajillo chilies in hot water (I get mine from a Latin American grocery store in Toronto, but I bet you could use dried cayennes in a pinch, which seem to be more common), draining them, and blending them with toasted cumin seed, coriander, garlic, sundried tomatoes, and sometimes a tablespoon or so of chipotles in adobo sauce.
Real chipotle peppers aren't those things you
find chopped up in
ancho sauce.
It's stupendously hard to
find fancy chili powders like
ancho and chipotle in Canberra (Australia, really), but I'm thinking smoked paprika could work well?
Go bold with the salt and pepper, then stir in 2 tablespoons
ancho chile powder (or any chili powder you
find).
Cooking on the Edge, makes her
ancho chile salsa recipe, sharing important information along the way - like how Mexican oregano is different from oregano you'd normally
find at the grocery store.
I first went to Mercado La Merced where notwithstanding its extraordinary size, I could not
find the tamarind pulp and the mulato chiles were not the quality I wanted, but went home with my
anchos, pasillas, seeds, nuts and chocolate.
So, I hope you
find 30 minutes tonight to make my delicious, autumn - inspired
Ancho Blackened Seafood Skillet with Bourbon Maple Veggie Couscous.
I make this in Germany with what I can
find: no nutritional yeast, thai chili peppers instead of jalepeno, and brown miso, and I use chipotle instead of
ancho.