We tried a new recipe tonight, chiles rellenos. We used red and yellow bell peppers which were on sale this week for $1.99/lb. We usually use them for stir fries and beans and rice, but we weren't really in the mood for either. We love roasted peppers so we decided to try our hands at chiles rellenos.
Most times when you order chiles rellenos, at least around here, you get cheese filled peppers. We're not from Wisconsin so that's just too much cheese. We chose a more traditional stuffed pepper filling with ground beef, onions, tomatoes, rice, and a little bit of pepper jack cheese. We tried to fry the peppers using the whipped egg white batter in the linked recipe, but it really didn't go well. It might be easier with the smaller poblano peppers, but the bell peppers we used were too big and fell apart too easily. We didn't have any catastrophic collapses, but we couldn't get a good even coating either.
Were they good? Of course they were! We're talking about roasted sweet peppers filled with meat! I do want to try the recipe again with more traditional peppers. I hope they will be easier to fry.
