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Salsa de chipotle

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Also known as: Chipotle salsa

Salsa de chipotle is a smoky, spicy table sauce made with chipotle chiles, the smoke-dried form of the jalapeño, usually blended with roasted tomatillos or tomatoes, garlic and onion.

Contents
  1. Description
  2. Preparation
  3. Use
  4. Recipe
  5. Reviews
  6. See also
  7. References

Description

Chipotles are dried, smoked chiles, dark brown and wrinkled, which Larousse counts among Mexico's hottest dried chiles and which are made from jalapeños. Salsas from them can use dried chipotles that are toasted and soaked, or canned chipotles en adobo.

Preparation

Rick Bayless's chipotle salsa broils tomatillos, unpeeled garlic and slices of onion until blotchy brown, then pulses the tomatillos with garlic, canned chipotles and a little adobo, stirs in the chopped roasted onion and thins it with water. He notes that dried red chipotles, also called moritas, can replace the canned chiles, and that other dried chiles such as árbol, cascabel or guajillo can be added.

Use

Chipotle salsa traditionally accompanies tacos árabes in Puebla, where the original spit-roasted tacos were served with a thick chipotle sauce, and is a common taquería choice for grilled meats.

Recipe

Makes About 1 1/2 cups · Time: 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 350 g tomatillos, husked and rinsed
  • 4 unpeeled garlic cloves
  • 1/2 onion, sliced 1 cm thick
  • 2 to 3 canned chipotles en adobo plus 1 tbsp of their sauce
  • Salt
  • Pinch of sugar (optional)

Steps

  1. Broil the tomatillos, garlic and onion on a tray about 6 minutes per side until soft and charred in spots.
  2. Cool, peel the garlic and finely chop the onion.
  3. Pulse the tomatillos with their juices, garlic, chipotles and adobo sauce to a coarse purée.
  4. Stir in the onion, thin with water and season with salt and sugar.

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See also

References

  1. "Chipotle Salsa". Rick Bayless. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
  2. "Chile chipotle". Larousse Cocina (Diccionario enciclopédico de la Gastronomía Mexicana). Retrieved 2026-10-10.
  3. "Trompo Tacos Are So Much More Than Tacos al Pastor". Texas Monthly. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
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