Name: Potatoes with Green Chile (Papas con Chile Verde)
Yield: 4 servings as a side dish; to fill about 6 tortillas (defending on their size)
Cuisine: Mexican
Ingredients: 2 pounds boiling potatoes (Red Bliss or other thin-skinned variety; about 5 to 6 large potatoes), peeled and cut into ½-inch cubes; ¼ cup lard or vegetable oil; 2 garlic cloves, minced; 2 fresh jalapeño chiles, or to taste, tops removed but not seeded, finely chopped; ½ cup shredded white cheddar cheese, optional; Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste; 1 small onion, sliced or chopped (about ½ cup chopped)

Preparation info

4
servings as a side dish

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Food from My Heart

By Zarela Martínez

Published 1992

About

This brings back many memories of good friends—Lupe and Nayo Chávez, who lived about a city block away from our house on the ranch and have known me forever, since I was a small child and Nayo was working for my grandfather. Nayo says he first met me in the corral when I was two, and my first words to him were “Cójeme el mayate” (“catch that bug for me!”) (It was one of t