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Chiles en Nogada (Stuffed Chile Peppers with Almonds)

Chiles en nogada is a Mexican dish of stuffed chile peppers served with a nut-based sauce (nogada). Read the recipe carefully before preparing. Please note that this is a spicy dish.

Ingredients

  • 20–30 peeled almonds
  • 6–9 peaches
  • 5–7 apples
  • 4–6 pears
  • Oil
  • 1 pound ground meat
  • Salt to taste
  • Raisins
  • 10–15 poblano peppers
  • 10 eggs
  • 1 cup flour
  • 1 pound peeled walnuts
  • ½ cup rum (optional) (optional)
  • 5 cups milk
  • 5–6 slices white cheese

Instructions

  1. 1
    Cut the almonds in 2–4 pieces. Peel the peaches, apples, and pears, and chop them up in very tiny pieces. Set aside.
  2. 2
    Fry the ground meat in a pan with garlic and salt (to taste) over low heat in a spoonful of oil.
  3. 3
    When the meat is cooked, add the fruit and the raisins, and fry for about 4 minutes. Let cool.
  4. 4
    Put the poblano peppers on the stove and let them get toasted.
  5. 5
    After toasting them put the peppers in water and cut them on one of the long sides. Wash away the veins and the dark toasted spots on them.
  6. 6
    Stuff the peppers with the fruit-meat mixture.
  7. 7
    Crack and separate the eggs. Whip the whites until puffy, then beat in the flour and yolks until it reaches a yellowish point.
  8. 8
    Dip the whole pepper in the yellowish content that you just prepared and put in a pan to fry until light brown. Do repeatedly until done with all the peppers. Set aside while you make the nogada.
  9. 9
    Grind the walnuts, milk, cheese, and rum in the blender for about a minute. After it will look white if done right
  10. 10
    Pour over the peppers and enjoy!
Category
Entree/Main
Method
Frying
Cuisine
Mexican