46 Best Hatch Chile Recipes

Lots of hatch green chile recipes your family will love! Using fresh or canned we will share casseroles, dinners and side dishes here. Start with our creamy side dish called green chile rice that gets RAVING reviews and then move on to the others.

Green Chile Recipes

Whether you use fresh or jarred roasted hatch chiles I guarantee you’ll come back for more. You can add these babies once diced or sliced open in all sorts of things. Let’s start with a side dish that goes with everything, our Mexican hatch chile cornbread. You can add mild or make it spicy with chile stew!

• Don’t want to turn the oven on? Try our Pressure cooker cornbread with diced fresh hatch chiles store bought and roasted at home.
• Here’s how to smoked chiles in your electric smoker or pellet grill.

When they’re in the stores we grab a bunch. They freeze quite well too. If it’s not the time of year where they’re really fresh you can get canned chiles here year round. We always have a bunch of these in the pantry.

Best Hatch Green Chile Recipe

One easy one that really has a strong flavor of chiles is our Instant Pot carnitas. Using these diced and a jar of salsa verde it turns out really tender. Served on rice or inside mini tortillas as tacos with fresh corn kernels, they are fabulous.

We throw them into easy casseroles for a bit of a kick a lot of times, an easy way to add flavor and make it a bit spicy as well.

Hatch Green Chile Recipes Vegetarian

We have it all. Even with the ones that include meat you could most of the time leave that out entirely or use a meat substitute that is plant based.

Do you have to peel hatch peppers?

The outer skins are quite thick and firm, nothing you’d want to chew on. If you smoke or blacken the skins and submerge in ice water they should fall right off. Putting them into a paper bag when done like we do with roasted jalapeno works well too.

In the end though, whether or not you need to peel hatch peppers depends on your personal preference and how you plan to use them in your recipe. All varieties of these green peppers have an edible that contain much of the flavor so you can consume it but typically the texture is better if you stick with using the inner flesh instead.

If you prefer a smoother texture or are using the peppers in a recipe where the skin may be undesirable. Like if you wanted to throw some into our copycat Qdoba salsa verde or sauce, I would suggest that the outside would be removed. This can be done by roasting peppers until the skin blackens, or boiling.

• Always wear gloves if your variety is spicy, or you will regret it
• Remove skins by rubbing the peppers with a paper towel or scraping it off with a knife.
• Alternatively, you can also blanch peppers in boiling water for a few minutes and then peel the skin off.

However, if you enjoy the texture and flavor of the pepper skin, you can leave it on and enjoy as is or use it in your recipe without peeling it. Ultimately, whether or not you peel depends on your personal preference and the requirements of your recipe.

What to Make with Hatch Chiles

You can certainly think outside of the box beyond our list here. Basically anything savory could potentially have some of these added on. Grilling burgers and want some wow? Peel the skins and lay half of it on the top of your beef patty. It will add tons of flavor, heat, and give it that wow you want for your guests.

Your condiments can be kicked up a notch with some of these finely diced too. Think folded into your mayo on a sandwich, or ketchup to dip your french fries in, I mean the list goes on and on.

• If you want to ease yourself and/or your family into these amazing flavors, try this hatch chile mac and cheese recipe.
  • You could even throw some into a batch of pressure cooker mashed potatoes to take them over the top.
  • Our cream corn casserole recipe is the perfect holiday side dish.

• Then if you want a heartier meal add chicken broth and make this green chile chicken casserole.
  • You can make a version of this quicker with our pressure cooker creamy chicken and rice casserole. Just dice your hatch chiles and add those right in!
• Diced you can throw it in to make some hatch chile salsa with chips.

And then talk about soups. Works great inside of that diced up for heat, texture and flavor. Our Chicken Poblano Soup is a great one to try with these.

We added a few of these in our June Instant Pot recipes roundup, but will add more here. 

No matter what brand you have whether it be a Ninja Foodi, Crockpot Express, or Mealthy or any other type, these will work great and I include instructions for as many models as I can.

• First you should start with our pressure cooker Mexican casserole that’s creamy with pasta.
• Our pressure cooker sausage rice casserole has a load of chiles in it and uses rice instead of noodles. Use mild or hot, your choice.
• Then try our Instant Pot hamburger casserole with spicy sausage to really heat things up.

Recipes with Hatch Chiles

I continue to add more to all my hatch green chili recipe ideas, you can use the search bar on my site to find them all. You can add them to other dishes too that don’t specifically call for them like on top of our Instant Pot frozen roast when cooking to give it some heat or;

• Pressure cooker cheesy chili mac is always a win with everyone
• If you love green chile peppers in all the things, add some to our crockpot chili, we have a recipe for that as well.
  • You can make this 5 ingredient Instant Pot chili quicker this way too. Add as many chiles as you like to really any chili recipe you find.
• For a healthier option, our Instant Pot white chicken chili recipe gets a thumbs up.
• Using poblanos, you can make this chile relleno casserole recipe.