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Jeannie's Homemade Green Chili

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Green chili is a family favorite recipe and Colorado specialty. Made with pork, fresh tomatoes, and Anaheim peppers, it’ll fill you up and warm your soul!

Jeannie’s Homemade Green Chili is one of our family’s favorite recipes created by my dear mother-in-law, Jeannie Winget. She made this delicious dish countless times, and was well-known for bringing this to people she loved who were sick or otherwise in need of a comforting, home-cooked meal. I learned so much from her, especially her example of giving freely of her time to care for people’s needs.

Ingredients

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  • 3 lbs.  boneless pork loin, trimmed and cut into pieces
  • 4 cloves garlic, diced or grated
  • 2 tablespoons oil
  • 2 quarts chicken broth
  • 4 cups fresh tomatoes, peeled and diced ( or use a can of petite diced tomatoes - 28 oz.)
  • 7 large roasted Anaheim peppers, also called Hatch green chiles, see Notes below (or use 2 cans of diced green chiles, 4 oz. each)
  • 2 bay leaves, optional
  • Salt to taste
  • ½ teaspoon dried oregano
  • 3 heaping Tbsp. flour (see Notes)

Instructions

  1. In a large pot on the stove top, cook meat in the oil with garlic, salt, and pepper until no longer pink.
  2. Add 3 tablespoons of flour, tossing to coat the meat. Add a little more if needed so the meat cubes are thoroughly coated with the flour.
  3. Add remaining ingredients and cook on low heat, covered, for at 2-3 hours. 
  4. Slow Cooker instructions: Once it gets to this point in the recipe, pour it all in a slow cooker and cover with the lid. Cook on high for 4-8 hours, or on low for 10-12 hours.

Notes

  1. If you are gluten free, you can use nearly any starchy GF flour such as rice flour, tapioca starch, potato starch, or any gluten free flour blend like my All-in-One Blend, or my Brown Rice Flour Blend.
  2. from Penny Mead (my sister-in-law): P.S. Mom always said to use the best cut of pork you can find and trim it really well. Fresh tomatoes and chiles taste better, too. There’s nothing better than fresh tomatoes and fresh roasted Anaheim peppers in your recipes!
  3. See how to roast Anaheim peppers in the video in this blog post.

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