Baked Stuffed Poblano Chilies with Salsa

Preparation info
  • Makes

    2

    Servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Lighter, Quicker, Better: Cooking for the Way We Eat Today

By Richard Sax and Marie Simmons

Published 2000

  • About

This is a lighter, quicker version of the chiles en nogada in Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel’s wondrous novel-with-recipes.

In the story, food becomes the principal outlet for forbidden love, magically capable of inflaming passions in those who eat it. Appropriately, the film climaxes in chilies, in the form of chiles en nogada—fresh poblanos roasted over a flame and peeled, then stuffed with a mixture of meat, fruits, freshly shelle