02.
A Bit of Botany
a little botanical information about chipotle
description
A chipotle is a smoke-dried jalapeño pepper. At the end of the growing
season, jalapeños naturally ripen and turn bright red. They are kept on
the bush as long as possible. When they are deep red and have lost much of
their moisture, they are picked to be made into chipotle.
Chipotle have
heat and a distinctive smoky flavor. A mature jalapeño fruit is 2–3½ inches
(5–9 cm) long, when mature the plant stands two and a half to three feet (75
to 100 cm) tall. Jalapeños have 2,500–10,000 Scoville heat units.
Capsicum annuumis in the Solanaceae or nightshade family. It is an upright
perennial or annual shrub usually less than 1 m tall, with small, white,
pendent flowers and elongated, yellow, orange or red fruits (berries). It
can be distinguished from other types of domesticated peppers by flowers
that are solitary rather than in groups, and filaments (thread-like stalks
supporting the anther) that are not purple.
common names & nomenclature
Chipotle comes from the Nahuatl word chilpoctli meaning "smoked chili". One of it is common names, Morita, is Spanish for "mulberry".
Also known as:
morita, chile meco, chile ahumado, típico