The market · Chillies and peppers · The Americas

Aji pancas

A Peruvian chilli dried to a deep red-brown: mild, fruity and faintly smoky — for anticuchos and adobos.

berry-like · smoky · mild

What to do with it

Classics built on it
PeruvianRocoto rellenoRocoto chillies, blanched to tame them, stuffed with spiced beef, peanuts and raisins, topped with cheese and baked.No one here has made it yet

If you can't find it

Latin American grocers, as paste.

  1. 1Ancho chilli
    The same, soaked and blended
    You lose a little berry-like brightness.

Goes with

garliccumin seedporkvinegar

Knowing it

Where to buy
Latin American grocers, as paste or whole dried.

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