Ají Chileno
I want to offer ají chileno sauce with my empanadas. Ají is a pepper also known as Capsicum baccatum is a mild spicy pepper native to Peru and it goes great as a dipping sauce with french fries or empanadas. I’ve been thinking about ordering some sauce from #AmigoFoods but I really want to grow my own and a friend recently offered to find and buy me some seeds so I can grow from scratch. Hopefully at the very least we can mix some in with the store bought kind sometime soon. They take 7 days to germinate and a while longer to bear fruit but it should be a mildly spicy treat. The reason I am really looking forward to it is that it is a very approachable spicy much more like that of the so called spicy sauce you would find at #TacoBell than that of the jalapeño pepper. I would also like to see what happens if we were to create a blend with chimichurri sauce or salsa verde!
IMAGE COURTESY OF: seedsavers.org #seedsavers #ajíchileno
