Here’s a short video of Hatch New Mexico green chile being roasted at Central Market in Dallas in 2007. Locations all around Texas import New Mexico chile during late summer-early fall harvest time and celebrate the tasty peppers with roastings on the weekends. The in-house bakeries and delis kick out breads, rolls and other foods featuring Hatch NM chile.

The purpose of roasting the chile is to char the tough skins enough make separating them from the pod an easy task.

Roasting Chile in Santa Fe, New Mexico

During the green chile harvest the roasters are working all over New Mexico.

Video of Hatch New Mexico From the Air

Footage courtesy of Channel 7 TV in Albuquerque.

Roasting Green Chile On the Stove Top

In this video Elise Bauer shows us how to roast and clean green chile over a gas burner in the kitchen. She is using a cultivar of New Mexico chile, the Anaheim pepper.