Receta Chipotles

Chipotles

By Eliot, on October 18th, 2013

I have attempted to make chipotles before but this time with the surplus of late season jalapenos, I wanted to be a bit more methodical about our process.

Chipotles are simply smoked and dried jalapenos. Typically, red jalapenos are used. As we cleaned out the garden to put it to bed for winter, I picked most of them green this past weekend. After pickling and making hot sauce (using up four pounds), I still had 2 1/2 pounds left.

Time to make chipotles.

After reading many different techniques from drying them first and then smoking them to smoking them and then drying them, I settled on the following procedure.

Make Your Own Chipotles

Pop the stems…