Verde Mary Recipes

VERDE MARY

Steps:

• In a blender, combine the tomatillos, chile, cucumbers, cilantro, vodka, lime juice, hot sauce, Worcestershire, and simple syrup to taste. Blend until smooth. Pour into two rocks glasses filled with ice, and serve.

PORK CHILE VERDE

Steps:

• Season the pork meat generously with salt and pepper, lightly flour. Heat oil in a heavy-bottomed skillet over medium high heat and brown pork chunks well in small batches, on all sides. Lift pork out of pan and place in a wide soup pot. Discard fat and place the onions and peppers in the same skillet and sweat over moderate heat, stirring occasionally until limp, about 5 minutes. Add all of the chiles and cook an additional 3-4 minutes, then add the garlic and cook 1-2 minutes more.
• Add the Sauteed vegetables, chopped tomatillos, dried herbs and cilantro to the meat, cover with the chicken stock and bring up to a boil and reduce to a slight simmer. Cook for 2-3 hours uncovered or until the pork is fork tender.
• Adjust the seasoning to taste with salt and pepper. Serve with red rice for a delightful contrast.

MARY BERRY'S RISOTTO AL VERDE RECIPE

Steps:

• For risotto al verde: Melt the butter in a large saucepan over a medium heat. When it is foaming, add the garlic and cook gently for 1 min.
• Add the risotto rice, stirring to coat the grains in the butter, and cook for 2 mins. Add a ladleful of the hot vegetable stock, and cook gently, stirring constantly, until the stock has been absorbed. Continue to add the stock, a ladleful at a time, and cook for 20-25 mins or until the rice is just tender.
• Add the cream, and cook gently, stirring, until it has been absorbed. Stir in the blue cheese, then the pesto, Parmesan and pine nuts. Garnish with shredded fresh basil, and serve.
• For chicken and mushroom risotto: Add sliced mushrooms to the saucepan with the garlic in step 1 and cook for 3-5 mins until the mushrooms are soft. Substitute chicken stock for the vegetable stock, omit the blue cheese and pesto, then add cooked diced chicken with the cream in step 3.
• For asparagus risotto: Add a finely chopped onion to the pan with the garlic in step 1, and cook for 3-5 mins until soft. Omit the blue cheese and pesto and add 375g (12oz) trimmed and chopped asparagus in step 2, about 5 mins before the end of the cooking time.