Help me recreate Chicken Verde Pizza!

August 13, 2009 4:47 PM

I had the world's most delicious Chicken Verde pizza at Cafe Brasil in Houston last week and want to know what was on it (namely, which herbs). Any Houstonians able to help me out?

Menu and Googling haven't helped, and I'm no longer in Houston to go back and inquire. There was chicken, some sort of Mexican cheese and then what looked like basil and parsley, but didn't taste like either. Lemon juice was added too, if I remember correctly.

I'm dying to re-create this pizza, but don't know where to start.

posted by JannaK to food & drink (3 comments total)

I wish I could help. I don't go there anymore. They have the worst service ever. But you can call and ask [phone]‎. I would call at an off time during the week.
posted by nimsey lou at 5:46 PM on August 13

Try contacting Dan Fergus. He owns the restaurant and Domy Bookstore next door.
I'm sure he'd be happy to hear how much you love his pizza, and he might even give you the recipe himself.

In my personal experience with him, all I can say is he is an exceptional human.
posted by at the crossroads at 5:53 PM on August 13

Authentic chili verde starts with tomatillos and jalapeno peppers stewed together with pork or chicken, after that individual creativity takes over. garlic cilantro salad leftovers, in Texas (south of the red river) chopped cactus pods
replace tomatillos, some allow no tomato others no potato. If it were not for chile verde I would be vegetarian.
posted by hortense at 10:15 PM on August 13