Chile with chicken
Here's my next attempt at chile. First I made a puree of chile pods and garlic per Amalia Ruiz Clark's book. Then I fried up some onions in olive oil, then added the chicken along with ½ cup of water. Removed the chicken. Chopped it up. Added the puree and the rest of the ingredients. Simmered it until it had the desired thickness.
| Red chile 12 pods | 480 |
| Garlic 2 cloves | |
| Chicken 25 grams | 673 |
| Onion raw 10 oz | 110 |
| Olive oil 2 tbsp | 240 |
| 1 tsp onion powder | |
| 1 tsp dried oregano | |
| ½ tsp salt | |
| Total: | 1503 |
Divided into four servings, that's 378 calories apiece. Not bad for a reasonable diet.
In terms of taste, this is not canned chile. It's a different flavor entirely. Not bad, but definitely different than one might expect.