Green Chile Sauce (new Mexican Style)

Total Time: 1 hr 10 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 18
• 2 lbs green chilies, roasted, peeled and chopped (hot or mild, fresh, frozen or canned)
• 1 lb cooked lamb (optional, but you'll wish you had) or 1 lb cooked chicken (optional, but you'll wish you had)
• 2 tablespoons cooking oil
• 4 minced garlic cloves
• 2 large onions, chopped
• 3 tomatillos, chopped
• 2 (15 1/2 ounce) cans low-sodium low-fat chicken broth (or your favorite)
• 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/2 teaspoon chili powder
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon dried cilantro

Recipe

• 1 in a large and deep pan or skillet add oil, onion, garlic and tomatillos. lightly brown or cook until onions start to soften.
• 2 add flour while stirring constantly till blended or you could make a roux and stir into the pan.
• 3 add all remaining ingredients and stir well.
• 4 cover and simmer for 40 minutes.
• 5 season to taste.
• 6 if you want it hotter simply add some cayenne pepper or habanero pepper.
• 7 for additional flavor try grilling your meat with some wood chips first.
• 8 this sauce can be substituted wherever you would use tomato based salsa. i plan to add some recipes that make good use of this salsa. try it on eggs, top your nachos, smother burritos, smother a grilled rib-eye steak etc --.
• 9 freezes well. separate into serving, thaw, heat and eat. this size batch last my wife and i 4 months.
• 10 tip: the easiest way to prepare this is to buy canned green chilies. i use 6 - 7 ounce cans undrained.