We love Mexican food here in our home and we enjoy eating pork as well. I have shared recipes for leftover pork that we use before and today and I want to share a new one. This is a chile verde sauce and it is basically a green tomatillo sauce that works well with pork. This is the first time we have made it at home but I do enjoy it when we go out. With some leftover pork roast in hand and a can of chile verde sauce with pork in the cupboard, this was an easy recipe to make and came out so good. I hope you try it.
Easy Chile Verde with Spanish Rice Recipe
Recipe Type: dinner
Cuisine: Mexican
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Serves: 4-6
Ingredients
- Leftover Pork – shredded
- 1 29oz can Juanita’s Chile Verde Sauce w. pork added
- 1/2 small diced onion
- 1 tsp butter
- 2 cups rice
- 3 cups water
- 1/2 cup tomato sauce
- 1/2 cup salsa
- cornstarch
Instructions
- In a 10″ skillet with tall sides or a sauce pan, melt the butter and add in the onion. Stir and cook to soften
- Add in the rice and stir to coat
- Add in water, tomato sauce and salsa, stirring well to mix. Bring to a boil and cover. Cook until almost all liquid is absorbed. Stir to fluff
- Meanwhile, in a sauce pan heat the chile verde sauce and the shredded pork together and heat through.
- If the sauce is too liquidy, you can tighten with a cornstarch slurry.
- Serve over the rice or use in burritos, enchiladas, etc.
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We do not eat much Mexican food, but I would like to experiment and try it. First I shall have to buy the can of Chile verde sauce – I hope it is not too spicy
This sounds delicious! We love Mexican food too and make burritos and enchiladas all the time. This looks like it would be delicious wrapped in lettuce for a lighter version too.
Thank you for sharing, I will have to try this.
This recipe looks delicious! I like the pork and the onion with the verde sauce. I would love to make this for dinner for my family! The recipe looks easy to make!
Oh, YUM! I like green chili. This is a nice quick meal. I knew what you meant with cornflower slurry.
I had visions of a plane dropping slurry on a forest fire.
usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/06/12/colorado-wildfires-homes-burn/2414269/
I didn’t know that there were so many kinds of slurry: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurry