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Related: About this forumSimple Jalapeno Cream Sauce Recipe
Just a simple and delicious one this week. This is adapted from a restaurant that hubby ate at, and they had this really excellent simple creamy jalapeno dish (Nicaraguan pollo jalapeno). He made a couple of alterations and adapted it into this super easy recipe. You do have to keep an eye on it, you definitely don't want to scorch your cream, but so long as you keep stirring it regularly, it won't stick and burn. We added this sauce to our squash soup, as well as over some roasted chicken, and it worked very well. Would make a decent stand-in for chimichurri, as well.
Please note: adding things like cilantro and parsley to a dish like this does slightly lower their shelf life. Because these leafy greens have some chemical compounds like thymol, which will reduce the amount of flavour over time, you can only keep this in the fridge for about a week. It will still be safe to eat after that time, but you may notice that it loses much of its interesting flavour, and becomes "just hot."
Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)Thanks!
Kali
(55,007 posts)I have a baked chicken recipe that is cooked in a very similar sauce but it is all done in the blender cold and uncooked before the bake. subbing fairly hot roasted green chiles was really good too.
mine has tomatillos in it too.
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)It's very similar to a Nicaraguan dish that hubby had in a restaurant. He stripped it down a little because he figured it would be delicious on more than just chicken, and he was right! We also like to serve it chilled, which adds to the hot/cold contrast.
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Imwonder if coconut dream would work. Im supposed avoid dairy now...per my doctor.
Saviolo
(3,280 posts)It should work fine. You could also make this recipe on a roux, and that would provide additional thickening.