One of our favorite restaurants is Chuy’s in Texas. Each year they host a Green Chile Festival. My husband in particular loves this special time, but so do I! Chuy’s celebrates their love of the Green Chile with three weeks of food, fun and tons of flavor. They claim to be the first to bring the Green Chiles to Central Texas in the early ’80s and we thank them for that! Every year they contract with family farmers in the Hatch Valley of New Mexico to grow over a million pounds of the very best Green Chiles on the planet just for them. And all I can say is yum!
I was lucky enough to find a couple Green Chiles in our local grocery store and thought what the heck – we can make something with this. But then I lost inspiration! I wanted something different, not just added to rice or tortilla soup. Then this past Sunday was the last day of the Chuy’s Green Chile Festival and I decided to go outside my comfort zone and get somethine new and not typical of what I consider TexMex {aka fajitas or tacos}, so I had the Hatch Chile Shrimp Cocktail! All I can say is YUM! I was so happy with my choice.
Then I remembered I had some Green Chiles at home and I could reproduce this tasty treat for later in the week. Here is my version. I have to say we loved it. YUMMO!
- 20 pre-cooked medium shrimp (diced)
- 2 Tbsp roasted Hatch Green Chile (diced)
- 2 Tbsp tomatoes (diced)
- 2 Tbsp avocado (diced)
- 1 Tbsp cilantro
- 2 Tbsp homemade cocktail sauce
- Juice of ½ lemon
- Dice all ingredients and mix together! Serve on a bed of lettuce. YUMMO!
