Dried Chiltepin Peppers · .5oz Jar

Half an ounce doesn't sound like much.. until you understand the pepper.

Chiltepin is small but it doesn't play. Crush two or three between your fingers over a caldo and you'll feel it.. a bright, sharp heat with a smoky depth no ordinary chile carries. A jar this size seasons a lot of plates. That's the chiltepin way. Poquito pero picoso.

Every pepper in here was picked one by one, by hand, in the Sonoran desert by chiltepineros.. harvesters who have spent generations mastering this pepper, studying the exact climate and soil where it develops its fullest flavor and fiercest heat. That's why real chiltepin costs what it costs, and why the flavor can't be copied.

Crush them over carne asada, aguachile, frijoles, ramen, pizza. Toast them for salsas. Drop them whole into stews. This is la madre de todos los chiles, the oldest pepper in North America.. en su forma más pura.

If this jar is your first chiltepin, welcome. It won't be your last. De la mata a tu mesa.