Ingredients

  • Sweet bell pepper: 0 Scovilles. The typical green bell pepper, about the size of a large fist. Very mild. shopping list
  • pimento (or pimiento) chili pepper: 100 - 500 Scovilles. Not just for stuffing olives. pimiento is the Spanish word for "pepper". shopping list
  • pepperoncini chili pepper: 100-500 Scovilles: Also known as Tuscan Peppers. These sweet, mild chili peppers are found in Italy and Greece. shopping list
  • paprika chili pepper: 250 - 1000 Scovilles. A large, cone-shaped chili pepper. It is dried and ground to make the more familiar powdered spice. shopping list
  • Santa Fe Grande chili pepper: 500 - 700 Scovilles. Also known as the yellow hot chile and the guero chile. Approximately 5 inches long and ripen from greenish-yellow, to orange-yellow to red. shopping list
  • anaheim chili pepper: 500 - 1,000 Scovilles. Also known as the yellow hot chile and the guero chile. Approximately 5 inches long and ripen from greenish-yellow, to orange-yellow to red. shopping list
  • Poblano chili pepper: 1,000 - 2,000 Scovilles. The poblano is an extremely popular chili peppers. 4 inches long, very dark green in color, ripening to dark red or brown. shopping list
  • ancho chili pepper: 1,000 - 2,000 Scovilles. An Ancho pepper is dried form of the poblano chili pepper. shopping list
  • Jalapeno Pepper: 2,500 - 8,000 Scovilles. The world's most popular chili pepper! Harvested when they are green or red if allowed to ripen, about 4-6 inches long. A chipotle is a smoked jalapeno chili pepper. shopping list
  • Chipotle Pepper: 2,500 - 8,000 Scovilles. A chipotle is a smoked jalapeno chili pepper. You'll notice the distinctive smoky flavor of certain foods like salsas that have been prepared with chipotle peppers. Very delicious. shopping list
  • Morita Chili Pepper: 2,500 - 8,000 Scovilles. A smoked red jalapeno, similar to a chipotle pepper. shopping list
  • Serrano pepper: 5,000 - 23,000 Scovilles. A smaller version of the jalapeno, similar in color, but smaller, about 1 to 2 inches long, 1/2 inch wide. Dark green to reddish in color. Getting spicier! shopping list
  • Tabasco pepper: 30,000 - 50,000 Scovilles. Yep, this is the chili pepper used in Tabasco sauce. The fruit is tapered and under 2 inches long. The color is usually creamy yellow to red. shopping list
  • Cayenne pepper: 30,000 - 50,000 Scovilles. A thin chile pepper, green to red in color, about 2 to 3 inches long. The "cayenne pepper" spice you use is the dried, ground version of this pepper. shopping list
  • Rocoto Pepper: 50,000 - 100,000 Scovilles. AKA the Manzano pepper. shopping list
  • Thai chili pepper: 50,000 - 100,000 Scovilles. shopping list
  • Scotch bonnet: 100,000 - 325,000 Scovilles. This is probably the cultivar of chili pepper that Christopher Columbus tried. shopping list
  • habanero chili pepper: 100,000 - 350,000 Scovilles. Related to the Scotch Bonnet.. Average Size 1 to 2 1/2 inches long and 1 to 2 inches diameter and tam-shaped. shopping list
  • Caribbean Red Habanero: 475,000 Scovilles. shopping list
  • Red Savina Habanero: 350,000 - 580,000 Scovilles. The hottest chili pepper on record, until the Bhut Jolokia came along! shopping list
  • Bhut Jolokia: 1,001,304 Scovilles. Now, truly the hottest chili pepper around! shopping list

How to make it

  • Okay, now you’re a Chile Ace, sometimes referred to as a Chile Head, so what’s next? I recommend you go to Jose Nada’s Hot Sauce Recipes & info. on this site for a lot more information. You should know that Hot Sauce (salsa picante) isn’t Salsa Fresca and Salsa Fresca can be hot but isn’t “Hot Sauce”. Join me at Jose Nada’s Hot Sauce Recipes. Goza la vida! (Enjoy life!).

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    " It was excellent "
    windy1950 ate it and said...
    Where does "Hungarian Wax (Banana) Pepper" fit on this list?
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  • davik 14 years ago
    Heh, as someone who was putting sliced habaneros on baloney sandwiches in high school I really need to see if I can get Bhut Jolokia to grow in Michigan... Excellent post, thanks.
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  • lizzconn 14 years ago
    Wow! Thank you so much! I'm a chiliholic so great to get an education on them...

    Living in Ireland (grew up in SoCal), chilis are just chilis here...no choices...
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    " It was excellent "
    tinadc ate it and said...
    Wow tx.... I am chilli freak... even on a slice of buttered bread it does it for me :)
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    " It was excellent "
    mjcmcook ate it and said...
    ~HELLO~
    I really appreciate this information~
    Thank-you so much for the post~
    "5"FORK!!!!!
    ~*~mj~*~
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