Recipe Details

Chiles en Nogada

Roasted poblano chiles stuffed with a fragrant picadillo of pork, fruit, and spices, topped with a cool walnut cream sauce and scattered with pomegranate seeds and parsley. Green, white, and red — the colors of the Mexican flag.

Prep Time

3 hours

Category

Main

Ingredients

16

Steps

6

Recipe and Instructions

8large poblano chiles
400 gground pork
1white onion, finely diced
3garlic cloves, minced
2peaches or pears, peeled and diced
2apples, peeled and diced
1/2 cupraisins
1/2 cupblanched almonds, roughly chopped
2tomatoes, diced
1 tspground cinnamon
1/4 tspground cloves
200 gfresh walnuts, soaked in milk 1 hour and peeled
200 gfresh goat cheese or cream cheese
100 mlheavy cream
1pomegranate, seeds removed
1/2 cupfresh flat-leaf parsley leaves

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