Chipotle chile chipotle meco (brown)

Chipotles chilies [chee-POT-tleh] peppers are smoked jalapeno chili peppers and are also known as chili ahumado. These chilies are usually a dull tan to coffee color and measure approximately 2 to 4 inches in length and about an inch wide. As much as one fifth of the Mexican jalapeno crop is processed into chipotles. 1/2 to 1 teaspoon powder = 1 whole dried reconstituted 5 dried rehydrated chipotles = 2 teaspoons powder or 2 chipotles in adobo. Read More Where To Buy Equivalents 2 rehydrated, 2 chipotles in adobo + 2 teaspoons sauce Ingredient Substitutions Chipotle morita, Pasilla de Oaxaca, equal qantities of chipotle in adobo sauce plus 1 teaspoon sauce per chile |