Red Chile Sauce Recipe

Ingredients

5 cups chicken broth
1 onion quartered
3 cloves garlic
12 dried New Mexico chile peppers (about 3 oz. total), stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1" pieces
2 corn tortillas, torn
salt
bottled hot pepper sauce

Preparation

Step 1

In a 4 qt. Dutch oven combine broth, onion and garlic. Bring to boiling; reduce heat to medium. Simmer, uncovered, for 15 minutes. Stir in chile peppers and tortilla pieces;l remove from heat. Dover and let stand for 30 minutes.

Transfer half of the mixture to a blender. Cover and blend until smooth. strain blended mixture through a fine mesh sieve; discard solids. Repeat with remaining chile pepper mixture. Return strained mixture to the Dutch oven. Bring to boiling; reduce heat. Simmer sauce, uncovered, about 15 minutes or until slightly thickened.

Season to taste with salt and hot pepper sauce.