Are you a fan of smoked and dried chili peppers for different sauces and flavor? It’s time you introduced the morita chili to your kitchen! These peppers are loaded with character, and you’ll find them a wonderful addition to your cooking arsenal. Essentially, jalapeno peppers start out green on the plant, but eventually ripen to a vibrant red color if they are left on the plant long enough. Once they ripen to dark red, the peppers are picked and dried in smoke houses to achieve their wonderful flavor. Learn more about the chipotle chili pepper here.
What Do Morita Peppers Taste Like?
The flavor of the morita chili pepper is a mixture of fruity and slight acidity, with just a touch of smoke. Overall they are fairly mild in their overall flavor and intensity, though pleasantly so. You can also grind up morita peppers to make a flavorful chili powder, which you can use as a general seasoning, a rub, or for making sauces, soups, stews and more. Just be sure to remove the stems and seeds before grinding. They are great flavor building peppers very popular in making mole sauces and certain salsa dishes, particularly in the areas of Puebla and Veracruz, Mexico, they are hugely popular in the United States for southwestern and Tex Mex cuisine. Morita chilies are most commonly used in making the popular commercial chipotles in adobo sauce that add wonderful flavor to many dishes. NOTE: This post was updated on 3/3/20 to include new photos and information. It was originally published on 9/22/13.
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