OH Damn it happened...
Love me some chili relenos not sure how you make em in your part of the woods...out here in Cali you can get em a couple different ways but stuffed with cheese and then dipped in a fluffy egg / flour batter and deep fried...DELICIOUS HEART ATTACK Sometimes just like that...sometimes stuffed inside a burrito with beans and salsa...oh damn it's good stuff... The fried relenos with just stuffed cheese and some sauce over them are good but in the egg batter...the shizzle dizzle
Oh man, I hear ya. Whipped fluffy egg with a little flour to bind, deep fried or in a skillet. Stuffed with cheese and enchilada type sauce on top, a little cheese garnish for good measure. Delicious, but labor intensive, battering AFTER roasting, steaming, peeling. Mostly If and when I do it somewhat that way, it's coat it with egg and hit the skillet. Huevos Rancheros style.
Chili Relleno translates to stuffed pepper. You can stuff with whatever, cheese, meat, frijoles, cooked squash, shoe leather, whatever. You can take a dried pepper, soak until soft, and stuff. Sauce, no sauce, cheese, no cheese. You choose.
In the nearby small town where we recently moved, the wife and I went to one of two Mexican restaurants in town. She ordered Chili Relleno. It was ground beef with sliced pepper of some variety mixed in. What the fuck? Yeah, what do hicks in this small town know. A "real Mexican restaurant" passing that shit off. For shame! For shame. We won't go back. I can nail it better than that. Anybody want advice from a gringo, let me know.
Whenever I cook Mexican, as long as I have the blender out, at minimum 4 different sauces. For fun, and all healthy with the exception being a bit of sea salt, which is actually not unhealthy in moderation. There's also the Salsa Blanco, not necessarily healthy, but once again in moderation. Concocted in America and likely the origin or answer to Ranch Dressing.
At any rate, roasted or otherwise, chilis ftw. Amirite?