Recipes of Mexican cuisine. Chipotle (sauce): cooking features

What always comes to mind at the mere mention of Mexican cuisine? Of course, this is salsa, nachos, quesadilla and sharp chipotle (sauce). The secret of tasty and memorable dishes from Mexico is the burning pepper, which the culinary specialists of this country add to all their dishes. Surprisingly, among the recipes there are even desserts with red hot pepper.

Pepper Chipotle

It is this kind of hot pepper and is famous for Mexican cuisine. Recipes with photos will be published below, but for now we'll figure out what features the pepper chipotle possesses.

In its essence, it is a normal chili, only artificially dried on the smoke. So from Mexican and translated the word "chipotle" - chili pepper in the smoke. It should be noted that the process of obtaining this type of pepper is very long, laborious and requires a certain knowledge of technology.

When the chili ripens, it is washed and placed in special chambers with bars. It is in these cells with the help of natural smoke that the drying process takes place. At home, the process can last about three to five days. On an industrial scale, this pepper is dried with liquid smoke and specialized gas burners, so the work goes much faster.

Despite the fact that pepper is processed thermally, it retains all the vitamins and minerals. This is a fairly high-calorie product. About 280 kilocalories contains a hundred grams of pepper chipotle. The sauce prepared from such a pepper, of course, will be even more caloric.

Sauce with pepper chipotle

The process of preparing the sauce is very fast. The main thing is to have all the necessary components at hand.

So, the sauce of Chipotle composition has the following:

• Two teaspoons of paste chipotle (or one small pepper, chopped).
• Two tablespoons of sour cream (you can take cream cheese).
• 150 grams of low-fat mayonnaise.
• One teaspoon of hot chilli sauce (or a pair of large garlic slices).

Preparation

All products are mixed in a blender and beat until a homogeneous consistency. In conclusion, add salt, chopped garlic. A sharp chipotle (sauce) is ready.

Now let's figure out which recipes can use this sauce. We will understand the features of cooking some dishes, which are so famous for Mexican cuisine. Recipes with photos will help you understand the cooking process and will prompt you how to serve and decorate the dish.

Chicken quesadilla with chipotle sauce

• Olive oil - two tablespoons.
• Chipotle sauce - to taste.
• Wheat tortillas (the amount is taken depending on the required number of servings).
• 60 grams of mayonnaise.
• A small onion.
• One large chicken breast.
• Ground black pepper.
• Paprika.
• 400 grams of cheese.
• One tablespoon of wine vinegar.

Olive oil must be properly heated in a frying pan. Then add there finely chopped onions and fry. We put it on a separate plate.

Step two is to prepare a chicken breast. The chicken fillet should be washed, dried and cut into small pieces. Salt. Add ground black pepper, paprika and hot pepper to taste. You can marinate pre-wine vinegar, and you can immediately fry in oil, which is just fried the onion. Chest the chicken fillet. We remove from the fire. Let's cool down a little.

We now turn to the formation of a dish. We put a thick layer of the Chipotle sauce on the wheat cake. This Mexican seasoning will be the main ingredient that determines the taste of the whole dish. Next, put the chicken fillet and fried onions. Add greens (optional) and mayonnaise. From above will go shabby cheese. It only remains to wrap cakes and grill them a little.

Vegetarian burgers with chipotle sauce

Despite the high caloric content, Chipotle (sauce) is very often used in the preparation of dietary or vegetarian dishes. For example, we suggest you make delicious and useful burgers.

• Burgers for burgers.
• Chipotle sauce.
• Salad leaves.
• Red onion.
• Two tomatoes.
• Green onions.
• Olive oil (if you will bake rolls).

Buns need to be divided into two equal parts. They can be browned in a toaster or fried in olive oil. For one part spread the sauce of the chypotle, put the lettuce leaves, tomato slices, the red onions cut into half rings. Add a little green onion, salt and pepper on top. Cover the second half and press it. You can put a burger in the grill, and you can eat and so.

Chicken breasts in honey and chipotle sauce

The secret of cooking this dish is a surprisingly tasty and fragrant marinade. The basis of it, of course, is a sauce with pepper chipotle.

• Two tablespoons of any sauce "Barbecue".
• One tablespoon of sharp chipotle.
• Two tablespoons of honey.
• Olive oil - three tablespoons.
• Three large cloves of garlic.
• Mixture of peppers and salt.
• A branch of rosemary.

Mix all the ingredients prepared beforehand. Garlic crushed with a press and also add to the marinade. We sail chicken fillet for two or three hours.

Now chicken breasts can be cooked in any convenient way for you. It can be an oven heated up to two hundred degrees (for half an hour). It can be a grill or barbecue. Even roasting in a conventional frying pan with the addition of a couple of spoons of olive oil will make the chicken breasts surprisingly tasty and aromatic.

By the way, the chipotle sauce can be used for marinating absolutely any kind of meat, from tender turkey fillet to dry beef, sometimes hard lamb, pork and even unpretentious rabbit meat.