Baked Chile Rellenos
All the flavors you love in fried Chile Rellenos bake casserole style. So delicious. Using mild poblanos, a puffy batter, Mexican flavored cheeses and a one can red sauce. Easy recipe.
Ingredients
- 4 large poblano peppers, roasted, peeled and seeded
- 8 oz canned red or green enchilada sauce
- 4 oz pepper jack or other mexican flavored cheese, shredded
- 4 oz mexican cheese blend, shredded
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup milk
- 1/2 tsp ground cumin
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 1/4 cup all purpose flour
- 1/4 cup club soda (or substitute 1/4 cup of milk)
- 1/2 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
Instructions
- NOTE: You can also buy canned whole chiles or roast fresh poblanos on a grill until blackened.
Oven Roast, peel, and take off top, membrane, and seeds
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Rinse and dry poblano peppers. Lightly spread avocado oil on peppers. (Do not use olive oil as it will smoke.) Place peppers on a foil covered deep sheet pan in preheated oven for 7 minutes. Rotate peppers and cook an additional 7 minutes. Keep doing this step until peppers are blackened. Should take 4-5 turns (about 28 minutes).
- Remove peppers from pan and place into ziploc storage bag, seal bag and allow to steam for 10 minutes. Remove peppers from bag. very carefully peel off lose skin. Cut off top of pepper and pull out seeds using a spoon.
Prepare peppers in baking dish
- Spray a 9" x 13" baking dish with non-stick cooking spray. Pour 8 oz canned enchilada sauce (red or green) in bottom of baking dish and spread evenly.
- Mix together in a small bowl the mexican cheese blend and the pepper jack cheese. Very carefully, stuff the cheese into the poblanos.
- Place cheese stuffed poblanos on top of the sauce in baking dish in an even layer.
- In a medium bowl whisk eggs, stir in milk and seasonings. Then lastly stir in club soda. Pour batter over the poblanos in baking dish. Sprinkle cheddar cheese over poblanos in baking dish.
- Bake in 375 degree preheated oven for 30 minutes until cheese has melted and batter is puffy. Served with my delicious Mexican rice. (DO A SEARCH in box above for my Mexican rice dishes.)