What’s Cooking in Gail’s Kitchen? A Burst of Flavor: Viva Poblano! How can such small pepper plants produce so many poblanos? When it rains, it pours! It seems as though we have peppers coming out of our ears: jalapeño peppers, Marconi sweet peppers, poblano peppers, bell peppers, and finally habanero peppers. I have roasted, baked, dried, and pickled peppers in all sorts of delicious ways. Today’s dish is a Mexican specialty that showcases the smoky taste of poblanos. It’s a meal in itself. To tone down the heat, always add cheese. Permission granted.
VIVA POBLANO
Ingredients:
4 large poblano chiles, roasted, halved, seeded, skins removed
1/4 cup onion, diced
1 teaspoon olive oil
1 pound ground beef
1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon cumin powder
1 teaspoon sea salt
1/8 teaspoon cracked black pepper
1/2 cup Monterey Jack cheese, shredded
1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350°. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium heat. Sauté onions. Add ground beef, garlic powder, cumin, salt, and pepper. Cook until meat is completely brown and crumbly. Remove from heat. Spray four individual casserole dishes with nonstick oil. Place one poblano pepper in the bottom of each dish, laying the split pepper open to fill the dish. Cover the pepper with Monterey Jack cheese. Add a layer of seasoned ground beef mixture. Finally top with cheddar cheese. Spray aluminum foil with nonstick oil. Cover each casserole dish. Bake for 30 minutes. Remove foil and bake 10 minutes longer. Serve with chips and salsa.
I have a bag of poblanos in my refrigerator. this looks like the perfect recipe to use them in.
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Sounds like my timing is perfect. 😜
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Cheese makes everything better!! I can’t do any kind of peppers. 😦 But I can have cheese!!
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Bonus! 🧀🧀🧀
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This is SO up my alley! And I’m jealous of all your peppers! Only dabbled in herbs this year, trying peppers and other veggies next year!
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I keep it pretty simple actually. Herbs and a few veggies. That’s all. 🌿🌱🍃
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I shouldn’t be looking at this…it is making me hungry!
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Then I’ve fulfilled my mission. Blessings. 🍃🌶
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So many peppers!
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That’s why we add cheese… to diffuse the heat! 🍃🌶
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yummm
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Great timing! I need to start collecting recipes to use all of my pablanos too. 🙂
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Don’t forget the cheese! 🍃🧀
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Not likely that will ever happen. 😀 There is always cheese in my fridge.
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