Texas Chili Pequin
Texas_Chilihead
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HAVE: Hot Chili Pepper - chile pequin (piquin)
Comments (2)Just sent you an email! :)...See MoreHow to tell if a wild plant is Chile Tepin or Chile Pequin in TX.
Comments (6)I've been eating food cooked with tepins as seasonings for over 50 years. I decided to grow some a few years back by planting seed from dried tepins. The success rate was about 1 in 20 to get a plant that actually grew to something that would bare fruit. The plants died after two years. Last year I repeated the procedure and only got two plants that produced. The funny thing is they aren't producing berries, they look like small (very smal) jalapenos. They are now producing for the second time and the chilies are over an inch long and extremely hot. The only seeds I planted were from the tepins.....strange....See MoreLooking for Cholula hot sauce recipe :-) pequin and arbol
Comments (10)I suggest first making a sauce without any spices. Getting the right consistency and salt, acid (maybe sugar) balanced is the first step. If you get it right, you'll have a great sauce to start with. Start with a 'brine' consisting of water, vinegar and salt. Get this brine to taste right as it will be the flavor base. Then add the peppers which you can roast beforehand and remove seeds if need be (never tasted cholula so i don't know if they toast the peppers and if they include seeds). Simmer this softly until the peppers are softened and you will have created a 'mash'. Then puree this. I don't know if the sauce is strained. Modify the thickness with xanthan gum (if needed). Personally, i don't like messing with thickeners as they can add an unwanted taste. If you get this down, you can experiment with spices. Most of all have fun!...See MoreChile Pequin: C. annuum var aviculare
Comments (6)I'm down here in Bastrop County Texas, and grow both Tepin and Pequin. I generally get about half that make it through the winter. They grow naturally in creek bottoms that have year-round moisture and are sheltered from the wind. I lost every one in the drought of 2010-11, even the wild ones in the area were completely decimated. I usually just mound up leaves/compost and dump a bucket of water on'em once a week. Sometimes they'll come back on the old wood, or just sprout new shoots, so don't do a winter prune on it. Morning sun and filtered afternoon shade seems to work best. A little bone meal or Osmocote sprinkled around helps too......See Morehawaiisam
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