Recipe courtesy of Tori Ritchie

Roasted Pasilla Peppers with Corn and Cotija

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 4 to 6 servings
  • Total: 50 min
  • Prep: 20 min
  • Cook: 30 min
Instead of frying chiles rellenos, roasted peppers are stuffed with a filling of corn with crumbly cotija and crema, which is similar to sour cream, then baked in the embers of a low fire.
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Ingredients

8 fresh pasilla or poblano peppers

2 tablespoons butter

3 cups fresh or frozen, thawed, corn kernels

3 green onions, sliced, including green tops

1 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano leaves or 2 teaspoons dried oregano

1 cup Mexican crema or sour cream

1/4 cup crumbled Mexican cotija or grated Parmesan

Salt and pepper

1/2 pound small cooked shrimp, optional

Directions

  1. Roast the peppers over a flame or in a dry skillet, turning with tongs as needed, until charred all over. Put roasted peppers in a plastic bag and let sit until skin rubs off easily; remove skin. Cut a slit in 1 side of each pepper to create a pocket; pull out ribs and seeds. Set peppers aside.
  2. In a frying pan, melt butter and add corn, green onions, and oregano. Saute until onions are soft and corn is cooked (about 5 minutes). Stir in crema and cotija, then season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Add shrimp to mixture, if using, and spoon filling evenly into peppers.
  3. Wrap peppers in foil and place in the embers of a burnt-down fire to warm through (about 15 minutes). Or, arrange peppers in a baking dish, cover with foil, and bake in a preheated 350 degree oven about 15 minutes.

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Jo E.

This was outstanding!  I used left over prepared ground chicken instead of the shrimp, the parmasean cheese, and a Honduran version of Mexican crema.  It was a bit of a pain to peel the peppers and I didn't get them 100% peeled but, it didn't make a difference.  Next time I won't be so particular about it because it's not worth it.  This dish blew my family away; even my anti-green food kid had seconds!  

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