Melted Cheese in Epazote Sauce

The flavor of this dish has stuck in my memory since I first had it at a simple little restaurant in Mitla in the Valley of Oaxaca. The ingredients are crucial: fresh epazote, the Oaxacan string cheese that melts so beautifully in cooking, and long, fleshy green chiles as close as you can get to Oaxacan chiles de agua. I have found that Anaheim chiles are a good match.

If you cannot find fresh epazote, the dried will be a distant but j