Green chili (chili with an 'i' at the end, as opposed to chile with an 'e' at the end) might be one of a couple things:

1) A misspelling of green chile, which is a word for a New Mexican dish as well as a word for the principal ingredient in both that dish and many other New Mexican dishes.

2) Some kind of chili recipe which uses ingredients that lend it a green color. These could include chili having as an ingredient actual green chile (which ingredient is correctly spelled with an 'e', even as the recipe is spelled with an 'i' at the end), or, as is more likely the case with people who use the 'chili' spelling, having green tomatillo as an ingredient.

When people refer to "New Mexico green chili" they more often than not are making a spelling error. Or, worse, they mean tomatillo and they intend to inflict something on consumers that has nothing to do with New Mexico, and they are using "New Mexican" simply as a marketing buzzword, without understanding what…

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