Product Description
PURPOSE
WHAT IS IT?
Chipotle is pronounced “chi-POHT-lay” and comes from the Nahuatl word meaning “smoked chili pepper”. Nahuatl is the language spoken within the central Mexico region, and is also known as the language of the Aztecs.
The powder offers you convenience, but less control of the heat, and a much shorter shelf life. If you use a lot of it, the powder is your go-to. If not, get a coffee/spice grinder, the whole dried pepper, and grind yer own!
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. They are dried, and smoked, for days longer than their younger siblings, the merit chipotles.
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: Meco chipotle chili powder (brown)
- Spanish: Chipotle meco en polvo (marrón)
- French: Piment chipotle meco (en poudre, brun)
- Portuguese: Pimenta chipotle meco (em pó, marrom)
- Italian: Peperoncino chipotle meco (in polvere, marrone)
- German: Meco-Chipotle-Chilipulver (braun)
- Dutch: Meco-chipotle-chilipoeder (bruin)
- Swedish: Meco-chipotle-chilipulver (brunt)
- Norwegian: Meco-chipotle-chilipulver (brunt)
- Danish: Meco-chipotle-chilipulver (brunt)
- Finnish: Meco-chipotle-chilijauhe (ruskea)
- Polish: Proszek chili chipotle meco (brązowy)
- Czech: Chipotle meco chilli (prášek, hnědý)
- Slovak: Chipotle meco chilli (prášok, hnedý)
- Hungarian: Meco chipotle chili (por, barna)
- Romanian: Pudră de chili chipotle meco (maro)
- Bulgarian: Чипотле меко лют пипер (на прах, кафяв)
- Greek: Chipotle meco (σε σκόνη, καφέ)
- Russian: Порошок чили чипотле меко (коричневый)
- Ukrainian: Порошок чилі чипотле меко (коричневий)
- Serbian / Croatian / Bosnian: Chipotle meco čili (u prahu, smeđi)
- Slovenian: Chipotle meco čili (v prahu, rjav)
- Turkish: Meco chipotle biber tozu (kahverengi)
- Arabic: بودرة فلفل شيبوتلي ميكو (بني)
- Hebrew: אבקת צ’יפוטלה מקו (חומה)
- Persian (Farsi): پودر فلفل چیپوتله مکو (قهوهای)
- Hindi: मेको चिपोटले मिर्च पाउडर (भूरा)
- Urdu: میکو چپوٹلے مرچ پاؤڈر (بھورا)
- Bengali: মেকো চিপোটলে মরিচ গুঁড়ো (বাদামি)
- Tamil: மேகோ சிபோட்லே மிளகாய் பொடி (பழுப்பு)
- Thai: ผงพริกชิโปตเลเมโค (สีน้ำตาล)
- Vietnamese: Bột ớt chipotle meco (màu nâu)
- Indonesian: Bubuk cabai chipotle meco (cokelat)
- Malay: Serbuk cili chipotle meco (coklat)
- Chinese (Simplified): 烟熏墨西哥辣椒粉（Chipotle meco，棕色）
- Chinese (Traditional): 煙燻墨西哥辣椒粉（Chipotle meco，棕色）
- Japanese: メコ・チポトレチリパウダー（茶色）
- Korean: 메코 치폴레 칠리 파우더(갈색)
- Swahili: Unga wa pilipili chipotle meco (kahawia)
- Amharic: የሜኮ ቺፖትሌ ቺሊ ፓውደር (ቡናማ)
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