Red Chile Sauce: New Mexico's Mother Sauce
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New Mexican red chile sauce — the foundation sauce of New Mexican cooking, appearing in enchiladas, tamales, stews, and as a table condiment — is made from rehydrated dried red chile pods blended with garlic, cumin, and oregano, then briefly cooked in fat. It is not a tomato sauce; it is not salsa. It is a sauce of pure dried chile — the simplest possible expression of the chile's depth.
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