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Chipotle Peppers: Chipotle Peppers are smoked, dried jalapenos. Jalapenos are green for most of the growing season, but turn red in the fall. Red jalapenos are sold at a premium price in Mexico, but US growers plow them into the ground. For Chipotle the peppers are allowed to stay on the plant until they turn deep red and begin to dry out. Theses deep red jalapenos are smoked for days until completely dry. It takes about 10 pounds of jalapenos to make a pound of chipotle. Traditionally chipotle is produced in a sealed smokehouse, but some commercial producers can use gas driers and artificial smoke flavoring producing a less flavorful chipotle. In addition, there are hundreds of types of jalapenos, so not all chipotle are alike. Finding a suitable chipotle is a matter of trial and error, and keeping several products around for their individual characteristics is a good idea. Chipotle peppers are made primarily in Chihuahua, Mexico, although they are produced in much of Mexico and in the US today. Chipotle Morita is the name given to the peppers produced in Chihuahua. Peppers produced in other places have different colors, morita means "little purple one" in Spanish and refers to the deep red, almost purple chipotle that is the most common variety. Other chiles can be smoked and dried, but only smoked red jalapenos are called chipotle. Chipotle peppres can be found whole in pods, ground, as a chili sauce, in adobo, and in several other forms. Smoking jalapenos dates back to the Aztecs who were thought to have preserved the chiles by smoking them, a process they also used on meats. Most of the spicy heat of the jalapeno is retained, setting the chipotle at about 12,000 to 26,000 Scoville units, or medium hot. You can smoke your own red jalapenos into chipotle using a home smoker or charcoal grill, they need to be turned periodically to dry properly. A little bit goes a long way, the strong smokey flavor and jalapeno heat can be used in small amounts to add a lot of flavor. Chipotle Pepper Facts: Chipotle peppers are smoked dried jalapeno peppers

Jalapeno peppers turn red if left to ripen long enough

Not all chipotle peppers are alike

Chipotle morita is the most popular variety and is deep red in color

Most of the heat of jalapenos is retained

Can be purchased in whole pods, ground, in adobo sauce, and in other forms

Chipotle peppers are readily available Nutritional data per 100g: Alanine - 0.433 g

Arginine - 0.508 g

Ash - 6.60 g

Aspartic acid - 1.512 g

Calcium, Ca - 45 mg

Carbohydrate, by difference - 69.86 g

Carotene, alpha - 994 mcg

Carotene, beta - 14844 mcg

Copper, Cu - 0.228 mg

Cryptoxanthin, beta - 1103 mcg

Cystine - 0.203 g

Energy - 1355 kj

Energy - 324 kcal

Fatty acids, total monounsaturated - 0.468 g

Fatty acids, total polyunsaturated - 3.079 g

Fatty acids, total saturated - 0.813 g

Fiber, total dietary - 28.7 g

Folate, DFE - 51 mcg_DFE

Folate, food - 51 mcg

Folate, total - 51 mcg

Glutamic acid - 1.397 g

Glycine - 0.391 g

Histidine - 0.215 g

Iron, Fe - 6.04 mg

Isoleucine - 0.342 g

Leucine - 0.554 g

Lutein + zeaxanthin - 5494 mcg

Lysine - 0.471 g

Magnesium, Mg - 88 mg

Manganese, Mn - 0.821 mg

Methionine - 0.127 g

Niacin - 8.669 mg

Pantothenic acid - 0.956 mg

Phenylalanine - 0.327 g

Phosphorus, P - 159 mg

Potassium, K - 1870 mg

Proline - 0.460 g

Protein - 10.58 g

Riboflavin - 1.205 mg

Selenium, Se - 3.5 mcg

Serine - 0.425 g

Sodium, Na - 91 mg

Sugars, total - 41.06 g

Thiamin - 0.081 mg

Threonine - 0.389 g

Total lipid (fat) - 5.81 g

Tryptophan - 0.135 g

Tyrosine - 0.220 g

Valine - 0.447 g

Vitamin A, IU - 26488 IU

Vitamin A, RAE - 1324 mcg_RAE

Vitamin B-6 - 0.810 mg

Vitamin C, total ascorbic acid - 31.4 mg

Vitamin E (alpha-tocopherol) - 3.14 mg

Vitamin K (phylloquinone) - 108.2 mcg

Water - 7.15 g

Zinc, Zn - 1.02 mg



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