Dried chile
Ancho
Dried poblano; broad, flat, heart-shaped pod
From fresh poblano
1,000–1,500 SHU (fresh poblano)
Chile de árbol
Chile de árbol ("tree chile") is a small, potent Mexican chile, also called bird's beak or rat's tail chile, closely related to cayenne and pequín. It keeps its red color after drying. The dried pods are toasted and ground into salsas and thin sauces, steeped in oil, or powdered.
Spec sheet
- Origin
- Mexico
- Style
- Small, slender bright-red chile, 5–7.5 cm long
- Fresh form
- chile de árbol (used fresh and dried under the same name)
- Chile
- chile de árbol
- Flavor
- sharp heat, grassy, faintly smoky
- Heat
- 15,000–30,000 SHU (en.wikipedia.org)
Cook it in
- table salsas
- chile oil
- chile powder
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Sources
- Wikipedia: Chile de árbol (en.wikipedia.org)
- America's Test Kitchen: All About Common Dried Chiles (americastestkitchen.com)
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