Oaxacan pasilla salsa (Salsa de chile pasilla Oaxaqueña) from Fiesta at Rick's: Fabulous Food, Luscious Libations, Great Times with Friends by Rick Bayless and Deann Groen Bayless

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Accompaniments: Oaxacan-style lamb pit barbecue (Barbacoa de borrego, estilo Oaxaqueño)

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  • JKDLady on December 20, 2015

    I agree with TrishaCP. I made this recipe with 2 pasilla chiles, tomatillos, and garlic. We found it heavy tasting, much like a mole. After eating it for dinner, I decided to work on it to try to salvage it. I added 2 canned chipotles and some of the adobo plus some lime juice and water to thin it. After that, it was quite good! I would definitely use this to coat corn tortillas for enchiladas. I was surprised that I didn't like the original recipe since I have liked nearly all of RB's recipes. It was still a good base from which to work.

  • TrishaCP on August 02, 2015

    Not sure what happened here, but this was terrible with the chile that I used. The recipe is very simple (on-line version, not sure what the book says)- just garlic, tomatillos (measured by weight so you use the right amount), and chiles (again measured by weight). RB gives various options but I used one Oaxacan pasilla chile (weighing 0.4 oz) since I had them on hand and that is the specified chile. The smokiness just blew any other flavor away- my friend commented that it tasted like mole, but not in a good way. I am just perplexed- as far as I know I used the right chile, in the right amount, and I can't believe I had the expected outcome since RB mentions using sugar to adjust the tanginess from tomatillos. (There was no tanginess-just smoke.)

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