Green Chile Bible Award-Winning New Mexico Recipes

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200 Award Winning Green Chile Recipes

This book provides clear instructions for the preparation of 200 authentic mouth-watering family recipes, selected as chili cook-off winners throughout New Mexico, home of the fabulous long green chili.

New Mexican cuisine gives the highest priority to taste–over the mouth blistering heat favored by much Southwestern chili cookery. This book is a treasury of what are arguably the best chile recipes in the world, drawn from a long tradition notable for variety, subtlety and the incomparable green chili flavor preferred by true aficionados.

In the great tradition of the chili cook-off, editor Tim Galagher proudly presents 200 prize-winning family recipes from throughout New Mexico, home of the fabulous long green chili. New Mexican cuisine gives the highest priority to taste–over the mouth-blistering heat favored by much Southwestern chili cookery. This book is a treasury of what are arguably the best chili recipes in the world, drawn from a long tradition notable for variety, subtlety and the incomparable green chili flavor preferred by true aficionados.

New Mexico tradition and imagination combine to serve up native dishes such as New Mexican Posole, Sweet Chili Rellenos, and Classic Green Chili Stew, together with modern adaptations like Green Chili Quiche, Green Chili Pizza, Green Chili Stroganoff, and Chili Gumbo. Appetizers, breads, soups, vegetables, main dishes (including vegetarian offerings), salads, accompaniments, and desserts are all represented. Instructions for preparing fresh green chilies to freeze or use in any recipe complete the reader’s initiation into the tantalizing mysteries of New Mexican cuisine.