New Mexico Green Chile Hash

After making delicious green chile enchiladas the other night, I had some of the green chile sauce leftover. Because I loved it so much, I could not let them go to waste. So I created this lovely New Mexico Green Chile Hash. It's a simple dish perfect for breakfast or any other meal.

To make it you will need:

• Olive oil
• 1 russet potato, peeled and chopped into about 1/2 inch cubes
• 1 egg
• Shredded cheddar cheese
• Green Chile Enchilada Sauce (or your favorite salsa)
• Cilantro
• Salt & Pepper
• Chili Powder

Heat a little olive oil in a pan over medium-high heat. Add potatoes to pan, sprinkle with salt and pepper and chili powder. Cook potatoes until crisp on the outside and soft on the inside, about 5-10 minutes. Push potatoes to one side of pan and add egg on empty side (as pictured above). Reduce heat to medium and cook until egg is over easy or however you prefer.

Place potatoes on a plate, sprinkle with cheese, top with egg, sauce, and cilantro. Add salt and pepper to taste. This would also be great with chorizo, sausage, bacon or other veggies. I was just using what I had on hand that day.

Best Green Chile Enchiladas!

As a New Mexican, I am a huge fan of green chile enchiladas. I've tried a few different recipes but never found anything that I really loved. Until now. A few months back, I read this article about New Mexico green chile which also had a recipe. I finally gave it a try this past weekend, and I wish I would have tried it sooner! It was so delicious! The sauce was amazing on it's own, I kept dipping tortilla chips in it while I was cooking.

I just made a few changes to the recipe. I did not use any chicken and used vegetable broth instead of chicken broth because we were having friends over who are vegetarian. Also, I do not have an immersion blender, so I put the sauce in the food processor and pulsed it a few times. Next time I will probably use the blender because it's bigger and might be a little less messy.

Green Chile Chicken Spaghetti

Tonight I wanted to make dinner with ingredients I already had available in my kitchen. It snowed last night, and I was too lazy to get out in it to go to the store. Most of it melted by the afternoon, but I grew up in Texas, so snow automatically keeps me from doing anything productive. Plus, we are trying to budget better this month, so the less trips I take to the store to buy unnecessary ingredients, the more money we save!

In New Mexico we like to put green chile in everything. It adds such a wonderful depth of flavor and spice, so we are always thinking of ways to incorporate it in new dishes. You can read more about my love affair with green chile in this post. So today as I made a mental list of what I had around, I decided to make a green chile chicken spaghetti. It was amazing.

Ingredients:

• About 3 cups of cooked, chopped chicken
• 1 can cream of chicken soup
• 3-5 whole roasted green chiles, peeled, stems & seeds removed, & diced
• 1 1/2 cup shredded sharp cheddar cheese
• 1/2 box of thin whole wheat spaghetti, broken into thirds (the box I used was 13.25 oz.), cooked just short of al dente
• Seasonings- salt & pepper, chile powder, cumin, season salt, garlic powder, & onion powder
• Chopped fresh cilantro

Directions:

• In a bowl, combine chicken, soup, green chiles, 1/2 cup cheese, noodles & a dash of each seasoning. 
• Spray an 8 x 8 inch baking dish with cooking spray. Place noodle mixture in dish. Sprinkle with remaining 1 cup of cheese, chile, & cumin. 
• Place in 350 degree oven and bake 45 minutes or until cheese is bubbly and lovely. 
• Sprinkle fresh chopped cilantro over each serving.

This will make 4 servings. If you do not have fresh roasted green chiles, you can buy them in a can either diced or whole. You will need about 1/2 cup. I used hot chiles and it made it nice and spicy, but you can also use mild chiles if you prefer.

You can prepare this dish in advance and bake when you are ready to eat. I made ours during Jack's nap, placed it in the fridge, and baked it later.  It was much easier than trying to prepare it when he was up and running everywhere.

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