Vegetarian Colorado Chili Verde
Wherever you go in Colorado you’ll see Chile Verde or Green Chile offered as a side dish or sauce. It goes well as either.

For the campsite we cut some corners, but this is still a dish that needs some simmer time to turn out really delicious. You always have the option of making a batch ahead of time and bringing it to camp to reheat. It even freezes very well.

Here’s the deal, though. If you plan to make it ahead, do it when you can be alone in the kitchen. The smell of the roasting peppers will gather a crowd who will eat the chili and leave you without any to take to camp.

Oh … and one more thing. Authentic Colorado Green Chile is made with Hatch Peppers from New Mexico. The only kind of Hatch Peppers we can get “back East” are canned and you can’t do a good job of roasting anything but fresh peppers. So we substituted a combination of Poblano, Anaheim, and jalapeno chiles. It came out really well.