Stuffy nose? Feeling like you have a touch of the flu starting to creep up on you? This chile recipe will help you fight off that winter bug and taste great at the same time.
Stuffs:
- Two quarts of chicken broth
- Four large potatoes, peeled and diced
- Four tablespoons of olive oil
- Two cloves worth of minced garlic
- Two pounds of pork or ham, diced
- Two each of green, yellow, and red peppers, seeds removed and sliced into strips
- Three large onions, diced
- Four large stalks of celery
- 2 tsp chile powder
- 2 tbsp chipotle
- 1/2 tsp cumin
- 1 tbsp ground coriander
- 1 tbsp fresh oregano
- 1 tsp sea salt
- 1 large can of sweet corn, drained
- 2 large cans of stewed tomatoes
- 2 cans of pinto beans
- 2 cans of red kidney beans
- 1 can of black beans
- Fire roasted chiles, to taste. The more the merrier (and nasal cavity unclogging capability.) Chopped and de-seeded.
Do-Its:
- Set up your gigantic crock pot, Instant pot, or vat on medium heat or saute mode.
- Add olive oil and garlic to a pan (if using a crock pot) or toss into the Instant pot/vat.
- Cook for two minutes and toss in the pork, brown alll sides.
- Add potatoes and broth, cook until they're soft but not falling into pieces.
- Dump everything else except fire roasted chiles into the pot.
- Cook for 20 minutes on medium.
- Add in chiles and cook until the heat level is to your satisfaction, minimum 20 minutes. The longer you cook the chiles the hotter the stew becomes.
- Stir occasionally but gently.
I normally double the garlic and onions, but I'm Italian and I don't want the ghost of my great-grandmother to show up and berate me. Enjoy!
Lots of Iron in there.