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MainsNovember 16, 2019

Pork Chili Verde

Pork Chili Verde

Comfort often comes at a price. Tons of ingredients. An arduous journey through prep. Long, slow cooks. Many ways to mess up. Usually it’s worth it, but sometimes you need the comfort but can’t make the effort.

This pork chili verde delivers comforting deliciousness, with almost no work. Just chop a few things, dump them in your instant pot, cook for a bit, take the sauce for a spin, and you have a bowl of awesome.

Serves:4. Prep Time: 20 minutes, Total Cook: 1.5 hours

Mise en Place

Veggies

  • 2poblano peppers, seeded and roughly chopped
  • 2anaheim peppers, seeded and roughly choppped
  • 2jalepeno peppers, seeded and roughly chopped
  • 1 lbtomatillos, husked and quartered
  • 1/2 cupcilantro, stemmed
  • 1 largewhite onion, skinned and roughly chopped
  • 10 clovesgarlic

Staples

  • 1 tbskosher salt
  • 1 tbsfish sauce
  • 1/4 cupwater

Spices

  • 1 1/2 tbscumin

Protein

  • 3 lbspork shoulder, trimmed and cut into hunks

Equipment

  • 1instant pot
  • 1stick blender

Directions

  1. put pork, peppers, tomatillos, onion, water, and salt into instant pot
  2. pressure cook on high for 30 minutes
  3. let cool for 15 minutes
  4. release pressure
  5. evac pork to a platter
  6. add cilantro and fish sauce to pot
  7. spin with stick blender till smooth
  8. taste, add salt if needed
  9. pour sauce over pork
  10. serve and eat