| Red Chili Sauce
For Red Chili sauce, the traditional way to make it was to take
a bunch of red chili pods, put 'em in a blender with water (or crush them
up by hand) and blend real good then cook for quite a while, usually till
it thickens up to your individual taste. That's too much work, so I use
a canned product called "Red Chili Sauce-salsa de chili colorado" by Las
Palmas, it pretty much comes out as above, only without the seeds.
Anyway, I use diced pork again, and onions, fry them up as with the
green chili and add the canned red chili and spices. I learned from the
native New Mexicans that oregano is a "must" for chili. They pick it wild,
dry it and then grind it up for use, I buy a bottle of ground oregano,
the easy way out. Then, depending on how hot you want it, I'll add some
"six pepper" blend or a salsa mix that heats it up, sometimes both if I
want to give my belly a real beating.
If you want "chili and beans" add beans, if not, use it as a salsa
or covering for about anything you feel like, from eggs to enchiladas.
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