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Why are chile peppers fried or roasted before being boiled?
I was watching a cooking program on TV yesterday, and one cook was
making chile sauce out of two fresh pasilla chiles while the other was making her sauce out of two fresh ancho chiles. They both split their peppers, removed the seeds and veins and fried them in a little oil in a wok, while pressing them down with a spatula. All the Spanish language recipes I read usually call for the chiles to be "asados" or "roasted" which I take to really mean is to hold them near an open flame, searing the skin. I can imagine an Aztec holding a pepper over a flame and browning it like a child toasting a marshmallow. But, if you didn't fry or roast the pepper at all, if you just cut it up and threw it into a pot to boil for an hour before you threw it into a blender to liquify if, would there be any noticeable difference in the flavor of the chile sauce? It seems that there would be no textural difference, if the object is to turn the solid chiles, garlic, cilantro, tomatillos or tomatoes, and epazote into a liquid sauce. The two cooks finally strained out any big pieces remaining in the their chile puree so it looked like tomato sauce before pouring it over the meat and cooking the meat in the sauce. So, why bother with frying the chiles? |
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Why are chile peppers fried or roasted before being boiled?
skimmer wrote:
> It seems that there would be no textural difference, if the object is > to turn the solid chiles, garlic, cilantro, tomatillos or tomatoes, and > epazote into a liquid sauce. > > The two cooks finally strained out any big pieces remaining in the > their chile puree so it looked like tomato sauce before pouring it over > the meat and cooking the meat in the sauce. > > So, why bother with frying the chiles? > Frying, browning or toasting brings out a different flavor entirely. Sure texture will be about the same but not neccesarily the color and flavor. With all the above items you mention above with exception to the cilantro I prefer them browned on hot iron or fried before the preparation. |
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