Product Description
PURPOSE
WHAT IS IT?
Chipotle is pronounced “chi-POHT-lay.” Meco (brown) chipotle is more popularly consumed in Mexico. They’re hotter than their cousins, Morita jalapeño chiles, which are the milder, more flavorful, and popular varietal that is commonly exported. Meco chipotles are dried and smoked for days longer than moritas.
The whole pepper provides a lot of control of heat, and flavor. It is superior to the powder because, dried, and stored properly, it preserves the essential oils that produce the big flavor, and its heat, much better.
EXPERIENCE
These chipotles look and smell like old tobacco with a mix of smoke, black pepper powder, and aged leather this pepper is one for those who want powerful flavor for their recipes.
CULINARY GEOGRAPHY
TRADITIONAL USES
- Carnitas
- Tinga de Pollo
- Pozole
- Salsas and Moles
IMPROVISATIONAL ‘RIFFS’
- Mexican smoked gravlax - Northern Europe and South-of-the-Border collide in a sugar-salt-cured salmon with a delicately spicy chipotle-cumin flavor profile;
- Papaya, loaded with bay shrimp tossed in lime juice, avocado oil, salt, and basil, topped with sprinkle of chipotle;
- Aztec Shrimp - Skewers lightly marinated in a sun-dried tomato vinaigrette are seasoned with Maldon salt and chipotle, then grilled;
- Pasta Caccio e Chipotle - A riff on the simple Italian classic that substitutes chipotle powder for black pepper.
THE BACKSTORY
The name “chipotle” originates from the Aztec word for them, “chilpoctli,” which is simply: “smoked chile.” The process to preserve them was created by Mezoamerican peoples long before the Aztec. Columbus definitely came across smoky dried peppers, because today’s Spanish paprika, and other paprikas of Europe, originated in the Native American drying process. Today, they are still largely a staple of Mexican cooking, although migration, and chefs popularized them in TexMex, New Mexican, and Californian/New American cuisines.
In Central, and Southern, Mexico, fully ripened red jalapeños are cold-smoked in large pits, atop racks constructed of wood, traditionally, or metal, commercially. The fire is in a nearby pit, traditionally, or smoke box, commercially. A connecting tunnel, or tube, vents the smoke from the firebox into the base of the chile racks, bathing the ripened red jalapeõs in smoke, and gently drying them out.
AKA
- English: Whole meco chipotle chiles (brown)
- Spanish: Chiles chipotle meco enteros (marrones)
- French: Piments chipotle meco entiers (bruns)
- Portuguese: Pimentas chipotle meco inteiras (marrons)
- Italian: Peperoncini chipotle meco interi (marroni)
- German: Ganze Meco-Chipotle-Chilis (braun)
- Dutch: Hele meco-chipotlepepers (bruin)
- Swedish: Hela morita-chipotlechili (bruna)
- Norwegian: Hele meco-chipotle chili (brune)
- Danish: Hele meco-chipotle chili (brune)
- Finnish: Kokonaiset meco-chipotle-chilit (ruskeat)
- Polish: Całe papryczki chipotle meco (brązowe)
- Czech: Celé chipotle meco chilli (hnědé)
- Slovak: Celé chipotle meco chilli (hnedé)
- Hungarian: Egész meco chipotle chili (barna)
- Romanian: Ardei iuți chipotle meco întregi (maro)
- Bulgarian: Цели чушки чипотле меко (кафяви)
- Greek: Ολόκληρες πιπεριές chipotle meco (καφέ)
- Russian: Цельные перцы чили чипотле меко (коричневые)
- Ukrainian: Цілі перці чилі чипотле меко (коричневі)
- Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian: Cijele čili papričice chipotle meco (smeđe)
- Slovenian: Cele čili paprike chipotle meco (rjave)
- Turkish: Bütün meco chipotle biberleri (kahverengi)
- Arabic: فلفل شيبوتلي ميكو كامل (بني)
- Hebrew: פלפלי צ’יפוטלה מקו שלמים (חומים)
- Persian (Farsi): فلفل چیپوتله مکو کامل (قهوهای)
- Hindi: पूरे मेको चिपोटले मिर्च (भूरे)
- Urdu: پوری میکو چپوٹلے مرچیں (بھوری)
- Bengali: পুরো মেকো চিপোটলে মরিচ (বাদামি)
- Tamil: முழு மேகோ சிபோட்லே மிளகாய் (பழுப்பு)
- Thai: พริกชิโปตเลเมโคทั้งเม็ด (สีน้ำตาล)
- Vietnamese: Ớt chipotle meco nguyên trái (màu nâu)
- Indonesian: Cabai chipotle meco utuh (cokelat)
- Malay: Cili chipotle meco utuh (coklat)
- Chinese (Simplified): 整颗墨西哥烟熏辣椒（Chipotle meco，棕色）
- Chinese (Traditional): 整顆墨西哥煙燻辣椒（Chipotle meco，棕色）
- Japanese: メコ・チポトレ（ホール／茶色）
- Korean: 메코 치폴레 통고추(갈색)
- Swahili: Pilipili chipotle meco nzima (kahawia)
- Amharic: ሙሉ ሜኮ ቺፖትሌ ቺሊ (ቡናማ)
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