Peeling & Chopping Tomatoes for Mole Poblano Sauce

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Gail Hoffman from North Florida and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make mole poblano sauce. The next thing we need to do is peel a tomato. The best way to do that is to take your tomato and take out the top green part. Then turn it around and score the back just through the skin with a X. I have some water boiling that I'm going to place it in the boiling water. Then I also have an ice bath that is ready cause we really don't want to cook the tomato we want to we just want to peel the skin perfect. So my water is boiling. I'm going to steam it in there for maybe about 30 seconds. Just to loosen the skin. You can turn it around if you want. When you start to see the skin pulling away from the tomato, it is ready to be put in the ice bath. You just let it sit in there just long enough so that you can handle it. You can see the skin just pulls right off. Then we can coarsely chop that to go with our other ingredients. "