It’s the annual Hatch green chile season at AZ Food Crafters, and the Chandler hand pie shop and cafe is offering a variety of chile-based empanadas, stews, soups, and other dishes.
The items are available at the cafe, located on the southeast corner of Alma School and Ray, or at Valley farmers markets on weekends. They can be purchased ready to eat, or frozen to bring home.
There are three savory hand pies (empanadas):
- Hatch Green Chile Pork: Their best-seller the past four years.
- Hatch Green Chile Chicken: All the flavor with less guilt.
- Hatch Green Chile & Cheese Relleno: Fire roasted green chilies and cheese.
There also is a dessert (sweet) hand pie:
- Green Chile & Apple Hand Pie: Fire-roasted Hatch green chilies, Granny Smith apples, nutmeg, ginger, and allspice sauteed in a splash of butter and stuffed into a flaky cheddar cheese crumb crust.
Other items include:
- Hatch Green Chile Chicken Stew: Grilled chicken breast, green chiles, potatoes, and pinto beans.
- Green Chile, Corn & Potato Chowder: Fire-roasted corn, potatoes, and chiles in our house-made veggie stock (vegan).
- Green Chile Mac n Cheese: Packaged to heat and serve at home (pictured).
- Green Chile Cheesy Potatoes
AZ Food Crafters’ cafe is open 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday.
