How To Make Chicharron Verde Recipe - Easy To Make Mexican Recipe

pork belly

🥗Healthier: chicken thighs

💰Cheaper: pork shoulder

Chicken thighs reduce fat while maintaining flavor.

green tomatillos

🥗Healthier: green tomatoes

💰Cheaper: canned tomatillos

Canned tomatillos are more accessible and budget-friendly.

Cook green tomatillos in water with a little salt for 5-7 minutes until tender.

Add cooked tomatillos, 3 cloves of garlic, a bunch of cilantro, 1/4 onion, and 2 serrano peppers to a blender.

Add about 1/2 cup of the water used to cook the tomatillos to the blender.

Blend until the mixture reaches the desired thickness, adjusting with more water if necessary.

Heat a little vegetable oil in a pot and add the blended salsa verde.

Cook the salsa for 5 minutes.

Add a little salt to the salsa and stir.

Add the pork chicharrón to the salsa and cover the pot.

Cook for 3 minutes, then stir again.

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