Make some of your favorite Southwestern Recipes using delicious Hatch Chile Peppers! New Mexico Hatch chiles are a popular spicy pepper with a depth of flavor that can be used to create delicious breakfast, lunch, and dinner recipes. Enjoy this recipe roundup using Hatch Chile Peppers.
What's up with the New Mexico Chile Pepper craze? Is it normal to get so obsessed with a chile pepper? For us here in Colorado, it's completely normal because we happen to have neighbors to the South that spoil us with their famous Hatch Chile Peppers.
Each Fall, we celebrate their arrival. Parking lots and roadside stands fire up their chile roasting drums and the aromas of New Mexico chiles fill the air.
We evangelize and we obsess. We talk constantly about them, we dig out our hatch green chile recipes, and we add Hatch chile peppers to almost everything we cook.
And we stock our freezers with baggies full of the roasted chile peppers to keep us warm all Winter long.
If you have ever lived in or visited New Mexico, you likely know that New Mexico chile peppers are part of the rich culture and heritage that the state is famous for. And of course they're famous for their Hatch Green Chile Recipes.
What are Hatch Chiles?
There are several New Mexico chile varieties, but Hatch chile peppers are highly coveted. Simply stated, for a chile pepper to be labeled "Hatch" it must be grown in the Hatch Valley in Southern New Mexico. I would compare the Hatch Valley and Chile Peppers to Napa Valley and wine. It’s all about the terroir.
Are Hatch Chile Peppers Hot?
That’s the beauty of cooking with Hatch Chile Peppers. You can purchase mild, medium, hot and even extra hot. You get to be the boss of the heat level of your recipe.
Hatch Pepper Recipes
The versatility of Hatch chiles to be used in Southwest Mexican food recipes is amazing! You can use them to create everything from Hatch chile dip and Hatch green chile sauce to breakfast, lunch and dinner recipes. And if you’re looking for the most classic way to use roasted Hatch green chiles, try this Colorado pork green chili.
Note: If Hatch chile peppers aren’t available, Pueblo chile peppers make an excellent substitute. Pueblo chiles are typically meatier and often a bit hotter than Hatch chiles, but they work beautifully in recipes using chile peppers. Learn how Pueblo chiles compare to Hatch chiles.
Hatch Chile Recipes For Breakfast
Using the Hatch New Mexico chile peppers in these easy breakfast recipes gives them a little extra kick to get you going in the morning!
- Overnight Breakfast Burrito Casserole: Perfect for feeding a hungry breakfast crowd. Sausage, cheese, eggs and chile peppers, it’s everything you’d expect from a breakfast burrito casserole.
- Potato and Egg Tacos With Hatch Chile Peppers: A classic and easy Southwestern breakfast, with scrambled eggs, fried potatoes and warming spices, your breakfast crowd will applaud you.
- Green Chile Smothered Breakfast Burrito A New Mexico inspired Hatch Green Chili Breakfast Burrito with Potatoes, fluffy scrambled eggs and bacon. Smothered with Hatch Green Chili with Pork.
- Eggs Rio Grande: This classic Mexican and Southwestern recipe adds rosemary, cider vinegar and Hatch Chile peppers to scrambled eggs to bring a whole lot of pizzaz to breakfast.
- Hatch Chile Quiche with Bacon: irresistible with bacon and lots of cheese, a flaky homemade pie crust, and just right spicy with green chile peppers,.
Hatch Chile Burgers
America’s favorite backyard food meets Hatch Chile Peppers.
- Hatch Chile Chicken Burgers: How to grill chicken burger patties to stay moist and without falling apart. Jazz up those Summer burgers with Hatch Chile Peppers.
- Hatch Green Chile Cheeseburger: Roasted New Mexico Hatch Chile peppers turn a normal burger into an iconic Green Chile Cheeseburger that will capture your burger loving attention.
Hatch Chile Recipes With Chicken
Chicken recipes with Hatch chiles are the most popular, probably because smoky chilies pair so well with the blank canvas of mild flavored chicken!
- Green Chile Cheese Stuffed Baked Chicken Cutlets: Rolled, then topped with Pork Green Chili, they're easy to make, and simply irresistible with flavor.
- Achiote Roasted Chicken with Hatch Green Chile Sauce: Bold, citrusy, and deeply savory, thanks to that signature brick-red Achiote Marinade.
- Mexican Chicken Taco Casserole: A winning combo with layers of crunchy tortilla chips, lean ground chicken and a creamy cheese sauce.
- Green Chile Chicken Lasagna: This lasagna is everything you love about the classic, however, this version combines layers of lasagna noodles with lean shredded chicken breast, cheese and a luscious green chile white sauce.
- Chicken Thighs in Hatch Chile Tomatillo Wine Sauce: Flavorful fork-tender, juicy chicken thighs resting in a tangy Southwestern green sauce. A delicious and easy one-pot chicken dinner.
- Chicken and Pasts with Green Chile Cream Sauce; Take advantage of Chile Pepper Season with this pasta recipe. With chicken breast and spinach, an easy chicken dinner with Southwestern flair!
Seafood With Hatch Chile Peppers
- Shrimp and Green Chile Quesadillas: A tasty combination of Southwest Seasoned Shrimp, New Mexico Hatch Chile Peppers, smashed avocado and ooey-gooey melted cheese .
Hatch Chile Soups and Stews
Hatch chile peppers make even the coziest bowl of soup even warmer.
- Hatch Green Chili With Pork: Award winning Chili features tender shredded roasted pork shoulder, plenty of roasted Hatch Green Chile Peppers and your favorite Southwest warming spices.
- Chuck Roast Chili with Bourbon: A rich and complex flavor profile includes red kidney beans, warming spices. The addition of smoky roasted Hatch Chile Peppers takes it to the next level.
- Chicken Tortilla Soup: Predictable with Hatch chiles and all of your favorite Southwestern spices, this is a recipe perfect for cool weather and busy weeknights.
- Anthony Bourdain New Mexico Chili: Richly flavored, hearty beef chili stew featuring beef chuck and New Mexico Hatch Chiles and Poblano peppers. One of our favorite New Mexico Chili Recipes!
- New Mexico Pork Posole: Hearty with hominy and tender pork. Earthy rich and satisfying comfort food with a flavor that's pure Southwestern bliss.
- Hatch Green Chile Stew with Pork: Bold flavor, hearty in nature, warming and brimming with Chile Peppers, cubed pork loin roast, potatoes and hominy.
- Spicy Chicken and Cabbage Soup: A vibrant, satisfying bowl of soup packed with tender chicken breast, healthy cabbage and vegetables in a bold savory broth with a kick of heat from Hatch Chile Peppers.
Appetizers Using Hatch Chile Peppers
When game day rolls around and you're looking for a spicy party appetizer, make one of these delicious Hatch chile appetizers. They'll be the hit of the party!
- Hatch Chile Dip: Homemade Hatch Green Chile Dip with Cream Cheese. Spicy with Chimayo chile powder and warm with Hatch Chile Peppers.
- Mexican Cheesecake Appetizer: It's prepared in a springform pan like a cheesecake, it looks like a cheesecake, but its loaded up with everyone's favorite Southwestern ingredients.
Side Dishes Using Hatch Chile Peppers
These side dishes will compliment any burger, steak or chicken dinner thrown your way.
- Spicy Baked Beans On The Grill: Using canned baked beans and adding bacon, molasses, and Hatch chile peppers. Mesquite wood chips bring home the incredible smoky flavor.
- Green Chile Scalloped Potatoes: Creamy, cheesy, and just the right amount of spicy heat, these Instant Pot Scalloped Potatoes with Green Chiles are anything but ordinary.
- Hatch Chile Mac and Cheese: Green Chile Macaroni and Cheese brings a creamy, cheesy, just right spicy bite of Fiesta to your next Mexican meal.
Recipes Using Colorado Pueblo Chiles
Pueblo Chile Peppers (Mosco) are grown in Southeast Colorado, east of Pueblo in the Arkansas Valley. They are meatier and generally spicier with heat than Hatch Chile Peppers. Any recipe using Hatch Chile Peppers can be substituted with Pueblo Chile Peppers as long as you’re aware and prepared for the heat difference.
- Pueblo Chile Pepper Chicken Sandwich; A hearty spicy sandwich topped with beautiful roasted chiles and creamy melted Muenster cheese.
- Bison Steak Torta with Pueblo Chile Peppers: This steak hoagie is made with tender shaved Bison New York Strip steak, caramelized onions, and roasted Hatch chile peppers.
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