Appears in Cook's Country February/March 2009
Though Texas is famous for chili, this little-known chili-based dish deserves a Texas-sized reputation. Our recipe reproduces the rich and complex, smoky yet bright, spicy yet sweet flavors using ingredients available in the supermarket.
We tested several promising recipes for Carne Adovada that called for toasting, seeding, and grinding nearly two dozen dried New Mexico chiles. Tasters loved the toasty, fruity notes from all those chiles, but we wanted to reproduce those f...