Pacholas (Mexican ground beef)

Name: Pacholas (Mexican ground beef)
Yield: 2 servings
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 300 grams ground beef; 2 pasilla peppers; 1 ancho peppers (chile ancho); 1/2 onion, chopped; 2 garlic cloves; 100 ml milk; 200 grams bread

Jack Fermon @el_pinche_jack

Mountain View, CA

This is a recipe from my childhood... I ate them when in my best friend's house, but never got how to make it until I researched in internet and experimented a little bit... Pacholas are a very traditional dish in the north/central part of Mexico (Guanajuato, Zacatecas, etc.)

Jack Fermon @el_pinche_jack

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Ingredients

2 servings

Pacholas
300 gramsground beef
2pasilla peppers
1ancho peppers (chile ancho)
1/2onion, chopped
2garlic cloves
100 mlmilk
200 gramsbread

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Steps

1

Remove the seeds and roast/toast the peppers a bit in the grill. Do not burn them!
2

Cut the bread in tiny pieces (smaller than croutons) and soak them in a little bit of milk. It should be wet and will eventually tear up.
3

Chop the roasted peppers, the onion and the garlic.
4

Mix all ingredients in step 3 with the soaked (and squezed) bread. You can use the blender but I like to go more manual...
5

When you have a thick mix, add the meat and mix all together.
6

Create thin ovals/circles of the meat/pepper mixture using the tortilla maker (or just the hands.)
7

Fry them in hot oil. It will take about 1:30 minutes to cook each (45 seconds each side.)
8

For your own health, drain/dry the oil from fried pacholas with paper towels.
9

Serve with salad or with green onions (recipe below.)
https://cookpad.wasmer.app/us/recipes/369012-marinated-green-onions

Marinated green onions