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Showing posts with label Mexican omelet. Show all posts

Mexican omelet, poblano, chili con carne


Pasilla chile in the grocery stores around here, and we must accept their internal coding but that is wrong. This is poblano chile obviously. Its dried form is called ancho and the red dried versions are hotter. This persistent misnaming of things by chain groceries contributes to general chile-nomenclature confusion and the Mexican people are too nice to make a fuss about it. 

But I'm not.

"Hey señor, este signo es muy estúpido." By way of icebreaker.





The egg mixture has a rounded tablespoon masa harina and that is precooked with double the amount of water then thinned and cooled with heavy cream. 

The cooked masa absorbed a lot more cream than I thought it would, it kept absorbing, and absorbing and absorbing and absorbing until I had a bowl of it and it kept absorbing and absorbing and absorbing and I was really hoping it would stop and finally it did. A lot of cream, and only two large eggs, not jumbo eggs as usual. The store was out of those. That is what makes this different, cooked masa harina and cream. 

Mexican omelet, eggs with masa harina, ham and cheese, asparagus, crema, heirloom tomatoes



Chile rellano in omelet form. 

A loose batter is prepared using the magical ingredient masa harina, the element that puts Mexico smack on your plate, fortified with egg as a pancake batter, layered with poblano chile strips and cheese along with sandwich ham, fried gently, folded and rolled out of the pan as an omelet. 


A loose mixture is prepared.


for tamales you'd want it stiffer than that ↑
for corn tortillas you'd want it much stiffer than that ↑
It stiffed on its own and I wanted it looser so water is added ↓


bacon grease




last of the poblano chiles roasted earlier





sandwich cheese
and sandwich ham 


heirloom tomato, and it is amazing


Mexican crema





Win.

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