(Photo: Paul Brown)
I love chile verde, so I was glad to see that Paul came up with a great version using Survival Spice™. I think he was smart to add the oregano and cumin, they're important flavors in Southwest dishes, including the Traditional New Mexico-style Pork Chile I've posted here before. It also is a good example of how you can use Survival Spice™ as a starting point, and add whatever you want to customize it to a particular style of cooking.
And dig all of Chile's grills. I was up to 6 setups when I moved a few years ago, but he's hardcore!
What have you been cooking? Email me some pics and a description!
Chilebrown's Chileverde!
6-8 pds pork (butt,country style ribs)
dry rub (survival spice)
1 TBl honey
1TBl oregano
1 TBl cumin
1 tortilla
salt to taste
1 pd tomatillas
2 onions
2 garlic heads
1/2 bunch cilantro
2 strips bacon
10-12 green chile (TPC note: I would guess that he used Anaheims or Hatch chiles)
Rub your meat with your favorite rub and refrigerate for a couple of hours.
Build a barbeque fire and cook your rubbed ribs over a medium high fire for aproximately 45 minutes. The object is not to cook them through, but to make a nice crust and smokey flavor:
Use the barbeque to char the vegetables (except cilantro) and tortilla.
When meat is cool chop into bite size pieces discarding any fat and yuck!
Place the vegetables and tortilla and some water in processor and puree
Cook the bacon in a pot to render fat, remove and eat. Put the vegetable puree in the hot oil.Then add the meat,spices, and some water to thin.
Cook on medium simmer for an hour. OBOY!
Check out this barbeque rig. The motor on the bottom rotates the grill. It creates a sort of rotissere. You do not get hot spots and you really do not have to turn things over:
Paul did some research on the motor, which sadly isn't available anymore. It figures.
It is a custom motor that has been adapted to fit onto a Weber. It is not a Weber product. The motor is from a commercial rotating toaster, the kind you see at coffee shops. It is encased in a plastic house. It has a shaft which is attached to the Motor. You drill a hole in your Weber, and the shaft attaches to the grill. You can plug it into a regular socket or use an adapter and run it from a cigarette lighter from your car.I bought it about 10 years ago from a small idependent local shop. It was called a Jack Drive. They were a pretty small operation. They had applied for a patent. I think their market was pretty limited. These units are pretty much made for Weber's. You cannot really compete with a Giant Co. like Weber unless you have their cooperation. There is a sticker on the unit with an 800 number. It has been disconnected. I remember reading about it in our local paper. There place was a mile a way. As soon as I saw it I had to have it.
What we need to do is construct a foot-operated version of the rotating motor to be used at Dutch oven competitions.