ancho chile
Mole sauce pepper
An ancho chile is a dried poblano pepper, dark reddish-brown and wrinkled, with mild heat and a sweet, slightly fruity flavor.
It's a staple of Mexican cooking, essential to mole sauces and often rehydrated or ground into powder: The recipe calls for three ancho chiles.
- poblanoMild Mexican chili pepper
- driedStripped of moisture
- smokyFilled with combustion haze
- mildModerate in intensity
- reddishSlightly crimson in hue
wrinkled · mole · sauce · rehydrate · Mexican · spice · earthy · sweet · papery · leathery · guajillo · pasilla · enchilada · adobo · stuffed · pepper · ripe · Oaxacan
heat level
ancho chileCarolina Reaper
Cultivar of extreme capsaicin
ghost pepper · habanero · cayenne pepper · jalapeño · serrano