The market · Chillies and peppers · The Americas

Aji amarillos

Peru's most used chilli: orange-yellow, fruity and quite hot — the colour of ají de gallina and papa a la huancaína.

fruity · bright · hot

If you can't find it

Latin American grocers, as paste in jars or frozen whole.

  1. 1Yellow pepper
    Roasted yellow pepper with a little scotch bonnet
    You lose the fruity, sunny heat — close-ish.

Goes with

limepotatochickenred onion

Knowing it

Where to buy
Latin American grocers and online, as paste in jars or frozen whole.
Worth knowing
Fresh or frozen ones: seed and devein, then blanch in two changes of water to take the edge off.

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