Ingredients (Serves: 5) Time: 30 Mins * The Walnut Sauce: 75g shelled walnuts, 125ml sour cream, 100g cream cheese, 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon, 1/4 teaspoon salt, 75ml milk * The Chiles: 5 large poblano chiles (Use only poblanos for this dish!) * Toppings: Coriander & Pomegranate seeds. * The Picadillo: * 500g ground pork * 1 onion, diced * 4 cloves garlic, minced * 400g/1 Tin Chopped tomatoes * 1 green apple peeled, cored and chopped. * 150g raisins & 200g dried apricots, chopped * 125g slivered almonds * Spices: 1 tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp allspice, ½ tsp clove, 1 tsp oregano, 1 tsp thyme & Salt and black pepper to taste
Method
- To make the Walnut sauce place the all the ingredients in a blender along with the cinnamon and salt to taste. Set aside for later.
- Roast the poblano chiles under the grill on 190 until blackened, about 5 minutes per side.
- Place chile in a ziplock bag and let the chile steam for 20 minutes.
- While the chiles are steaming, heat up 1tbsp of oil and the chopped onion on a medium heat.
- Cook until the onion is translucent and then stir in the garlic, cinnamon, oregano, thyme, clove and allspice.
- Add the ground pork. Cook until lightly browned.
- Add the chopped tomato, apple, raisins, dried apricots and almonds and add salt to taste.
- Cook for 15 minutes, stirring occasionally. Taste and adjust seasonings adding more liquid if necessary.
- Take the chiles out of the bag and peel off the skin.
- Cut a slit into each chile, lengthwise, and cut/scrape out the seeds (this is a bit fiddly but its okay if you can't remove every single last seed. Just most of them is fine.)
- Stuff each chile with the picadillo filling.
- To serve, place the chiles on a plate and pour over the walnut sauce. Sprinkle with pomegranate seeds and the cilantro for garnish.
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