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Beer Battered Green Chile Strips

No Hatch Green Chilies where I live so I will go with a large green chili variety available in Tesco. The dipping sauce for this sounds wonderful as well.
Print Recipe
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 30 minutes
Course Appetizer
Cuisine American
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

For the Chili Strips

  • 4 large green chilies
  • 2 cups cooking oil
  • 1/2 can beer
  • 1/2 cup all purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • salt, as desired
  • pinch black pepper

For the Dipping Sauce

  • 1 cup mayo
  • 1 teaspoon fresh cilantro leaves, finely chopped
  • 1/4 cup large green chili, roasted, peeled, seeded, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon onion powder

Instructions
 

For the Dipping Sauce

  • Mix all the Dipping Sauce ingredients in a small bowl, refrigerate until use.

For the Chili Strips

  • Prepare the chilies first, roast, then remove the skins, seeds, and stems. Cutting lengthwise, cut as many 1/4 inch strips from the chilies, set aside.
  • In a large deep pan heat the oil to hot but not smoking. While the oil is heating, prepare a plate with paper towels as a place to drain the chili strips on when removed from the oil.
  • Pour beer, flour, baking powder, salt as desired, and pepper in a medium size mixing bowl and whisk well until there are no more lumps in the batter.
  • When the oil is hot, working in batches, dredge the chili strips in the batter and fry in the oil until golden brown, remove to the paper towel lined plate to drain, repeat for remaining batches.
  • Serve with the dipping sauce.

Notes

Low cost.
Provided courtesy of good friend, Jerry Juliana.
United States.