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chichilo negro

While paging independently at different times through Kennedy’s Art, Alex, Nick, and Sebastian – at least in my memory – all noted with interest this recipe for Oaxacan Black Beef Stew.

Chichilo negro is a dramatic stew of meat an vegetables in a fragrant and complex black sauce, redolent of black chiles and toasted avocado leaves. It is one of the more important of the Seven Moles of Oaxaca and prepared in the villages of the Central Valley on festive occasions instead of the much heavier black Oaxacan mole. In the past it was always made with the black, bulbous, thin-skinned chilhuacle negro, which in recent years have become scarcer and very expensive, so chiles guajillos, charred black, are now often used.

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Chichilo is best served in shallow bowls—meat, vegetables, and plenty of sauce, with the final touch (as if that were necessary) of rajas con limon (page 359). Some black beans cooked de olla (page 179) and corn tortillas accompany this dish, whichis not, surprisingly, very picante.

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  • 1½ pounds beef ribs or brisket, cut into 2-inch pieces
  • 1 small head of garlic, scored around the middle
  • 1 medium white onion, roughly sliced
  • sea salt to taste
  • 1 pound boneless stewing pork, cut into 2-inch pieces

The Vegetables

  • 1 large chayote (about ¾ pound), peeled and cut into strips with core and seed
  • 6 ounces green beans, trimmed and cut into halves
  • 1 chile pasilla de Mexico
  • 18 chiles chilhuacles negros or guajillos
  • 3 medium (about ½ lb) tomatoes
  • 3 large (about ¼ lb) tomate verde/tomatillo, approximately
  • 12 small garlic cloves, unpeeled
  • 1 medium white onion, quartered
  • the seeds from the chiles
  • 2 dried corn tortillas
  • 1 scant tablespoon dried oregano, Oaxacan if possible
  • 2 whole cloves
  • 3 whole allspice
  • ¼ teaspoon dried marjoram
  • ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
  • pinch of cumin seed
  • 3 tablespoons lard
  • ½ pound prepared corn tortilla masa (page 8)
  • 8 fresh or dried avocado leaves
  • sea salt to taste

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I’ve never cooked one of these before, so I'm excited for it. I bought a big spiky one, you know, just to make life more interesting.

The chayote, sometimes called a vegetable pear, is indegenous to Mexico and has been cultivated by the Indians for centuries; they gave it a Nahuatl name, chayutli.

Several varieties are grown in Mexico: small cream-colored ones, dark and light green ones with porcupinelike prickles, and then the light green, smoother variety, puckered at both ends, that is found in most Latin American markets in the US.

Only when the last variety is very tender and freshly picked can the skin be eaten; otherwise it should be discarded. But the seed, or flat almond, inside is a delicacy.

The chayote is a perennial climbing plant that grows profusely over the tall trees in my orchard, but it can be trained over a wire frame or cama when grown commercially. The tuberous root is edible and delicious, but it should be left to experts to dig it up without disturbing the reproductive part of the root system on which the following year's growth depends. The root, called camote de chayote, chinchayote, or chintestle, depending on the region, is boiled and eaten by itself or made into fritters and has a pleasant, earthy taste rather like that of the Jerusalem artichoke (Kennedy, p.147).

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