Green chile is a tasty light meal when eaten with tortillas, but can also be used to top a lot of different Mexican-themed dishes! Try this easy homemade green chile recipe and you’ll have an easy meal for your family!
I absolutely love green chile! Being from Colorado, it’s pretty common to find green chile at Mexican restaurants. It can be eaten as a soup or it can be used to pour over the top of smothered burritos, enchiladas and more.
I like to serve my green chile wrapped in tortillas. Then I smother the tortillas with more green chile and then top with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes and sour cream.
If you like, you can make up the green chile and pour it over your favorite Mexican dishes like burritos or enchiladas. You can also pour it over chicken or pork chops.
Easy Green Chile Recipe
Ingredients
1/2–1 lb. pork roast, or chops cubed into small pieces
10 1/2 oz. chicken broth
1 onion, finely chopped
1/4 – 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
1 (7 oz.) can green chiles, diced
1/4 jalapeno, finely chopped
1 Tbsp. butter
1 tsp. salt
2 Tbsp. flour or cornstarch, dissolved in water
flour tortillas (or corn tortillas if you’re gluten free)
Toppings
cheddar cheese, grated
lettuce, shredded
tomato
sour cream
Instructions
- Simmer pork in broth on low for 10 minutes.
- Add all of the other ingredients except flour.
- Simmer 45 minutes.
- Thicken with flour or cornstarch so it is like a thick soup.
- Spoon about 1/4 cup into the center of a flour tortilla.
- Roll up tortilla.
- Top with more green chile.
- Sprinkle with cheese, lettuce and tomato.
- Top with sour cream, if desired.
This green chile freezes really well.
Notes
- This easy green chile recipe calls for pork, but I also occasionally make it with cubed cooked chicken.
- This recipe is a great way to use leftover pork or chicken.
- If you like, you can make the green chile and instead of serving wrapped in a tortilla, you can use to pour over your favorite Mexican dishes like burritos or enchiladas.
- This green chile recipe is also good served over rice and garnished with the cheese, lettuce and other toppings.
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I got hungry for green Chile after seeing you recipe again so I had my girl make up a batch. I didn’t have jalapeños or a can of green chilies so I substituted a can of Rotel tomatoes w/green chilies, they are plenty hot for me. I served it over a bean burrito. It was really good!!! Thanks for reminding me I hadn’t made green Chile in a long time. I don’t usually buy pork but for some reason there was a mysterious pkg that was found in my freezer yesterday and today I knew exactly what to use it for. Thanks again.
Darlene in Colorado
This is a good recipe but what I like to do is buy a pork roast and slow cook it in the crockpot with seasoned salt,pepper and a little dash of liquid smoke,then we eat it that way one night and then I take the leftover pork roast,cube it and throw it back in the crockpot with the leftover broth (it makes alot of broth in the crockpot) and then add the rest of the ingredients for the green chile then set it on low to simmer in the crockpot all day.
We like to pour our green chile over ground beef burritos.
This makes me HUNGRY! Yummy! And I think I can make a bunch of this and can it for later use. Even yummier!
Thanks, this will be part of our meal planning for the upcoming week!
The chili stands are up and roasting fresh chilis in Denver. King Soopers has pork shoulder roasts (whole shoulder) for $.99 a pound. I bought 20 pounds of pork shoulder, one bushel of green chilis and am on my third day of making green chile. I have used 90 chilis and have 20 to go, and a little pork. I will finish that all up tomorrow and it will all go into the freezer, all ready to eat.
This recipe is also good to add diced potatoes & simmer for green chile stew!!
Do the rolled up tortillas get baked after filling? I did not see any baking instructions. Looks like a great recipe!
No they don’t tortillas are like bread and come already cooked so you eat with out cooking or roll us something and bake – either way is fine. I love taking a tortilla and just spreading it with butter and sprinkle sugar and and cinnamon on top of butter, roll it up and have an easy dessert. I also will fry the shells and immediately sprinkle with sugar/cinnamon. Those are examples of using them uncooked and cooked.
When I make this recipe, I double it, precook my hamburger, pork or chicken by baking slowly or using my Instant Pot, then add the onion, garlic powder, green chilis, jalapeno, and freeze (all the ingredients except the broth, butter & and cornstarch.) Then I freeze the mixture in 2 person servings. Later, when I decide what to make with it, I add the broth, butter, or cornstarch and often do that my a crock pot. Sometimes I use sour cream, and other times, cream cheese (depending what I’m making with it.) I’ve made it to go over corn tortillas (made into cheese enchiladas,) as only a soup w/ chips & salsa, over bean burritos, as a chimichanga sauce. It’s such a great all around green chili recipe! With less broth & cream cheese, it makes a great dipping sauce for chips! If the meat is already cooked, this dish can be made so quickly! We LOVE IT and even picky eaters have enjoyed everything I’ve made with it. I probably would have tried all the recipes in your cookbooks right now if we didn’t have this one so often.
LOL Diane. I get the feeling you LOVE this recipe. : ) Thanks for the great review and good tips too.
Jill, that’s an understatement. LOL! I really love when you do “lives” with Tawra, by the way. It makes me so happy when I see you. I have tried so many of the tips you share on the there. And some things you say are identical to how I was raised or raised all my kids, so I feel like I know you. Thank you so much!
Oh thank you Diane! I am afraid my “lives” are a little hit and miss now especially during the winter because the roads are more often than not bad and it is a little harder for me to drive to Tawra’s and then being so far North it gets dark earlier and it is a little dangerous for me to drive home because I live on the edge of town and the deer are awful jumping out on to the road. Thanks to for leaving a comment I do so love hearing from you guys. Years ago we had a meet up with many of our viewers in CO and we had more fun getting together. : )