What’s In a Name?

Lets start with what chile and chipotle are.
Chile is not the same as chili. Chili is a soup like dish made with chile peppers. We use the term chile because of our proximity to the US / Mexico border and we take this term from the way it is referred to here.  If you go further south to Columbia and below it is known as aji. Chile down there is a country.

The most common chile sold in our markets are Long Green Mild (your Numex and Anaheim types), Jalapeno, De Arbol, Bell Pepper, Poblano (Ancho when mature and dried), and Guajillo. Chipotle Morita is a smoked and dehydrated red jalapeno. In the states many people refer to them as chipotle. There are a number of types of chile that can be made into types of chipotle (chipotle verde is a smoked green jalapeno).

In our next post we will break it down further….

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