Chiltepin pepper recipes

Chiltepin, similar to the chile pequin, is the smallest of all peppers and indigenous to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico. Considered to be the oldest and only native chile in North America, this pepper is woven into the fabric of our history. Roughly the size of a peppercorn, the...

You can modify any pepper based recipe into a chiltepin recipe. But, this is a collection of recipes that specifically call for the wild chile pepper.

UPDATE: It’s been brought to my attention that the name of the peppers featured here is not “pequin”. Common names given to these are “tepin” or “chiltepin…

Now is the time to put up a bottle of pepper vinegar.

How to make homemade hot sauce, using any hot chile pepper, from wild chiltepin chiles to mild jalapenos. This is an easy recipe if you have a blender.

Sandia Seed's Carolina Reaper Salsa Recipe This is the hottest salsa you can make with the world's hottest pepper, the wicked Carolina Reaper! Of course, if you like to taste your salsa, you can also add less of the reaper to this recipe. We like to add some, then add more after tasting until we get it just right. Reme

These enchiladas are deliciously spicy with the advantage that you can adjust the heat. Ready in 30 minutes and easy to make. You can add your favorite fillings, or made with the hands-down best homemade spicy enchilada sauce! Chile piquin is also known as tepin, chiltepin among other names.

The chiltepin is infamous for being an extremely hot chili pepper, and ranks very high on the Scoville Scale.

Learn different methods for drying chili peppers so you can preserve them for future use, including oven drying, air drying, and drying chili peppers with a dehydrator.

UPDATE: It’s been brought to my attention that the name of the peppers featured here is not “pequin”. Common names given to these are “tepin” or “chiltepin…