Aji Dulce Pepper
Aromatic sweet spicy delicious pepper great sauteed.
Aji dulce pepper. Ají dulce capsicum chinense is a small light to dark green pepper that turns red orange and to a lesser extent yellow if the fruit is left on the plant long enough to mature. Aji dulce is similar in taste to habanada pepper but i a little sweeter. Aji dulce peppers are small brightly colored pods that look very much like habanero peppers though without the incredible habanero heat. Season your meats and enjoy the exquisite flavor that chefs love.
It s perfect for mild salsas sauces and a must for caribbean cooking especially cuban and venezuelan cuisine. It is most widely known in cuba jamaica puerto rico dominican republic and venezuela where it refers to a specific native variety of capsicum chinense that is related to the habanero but with a much milder smoky flavor. How to grow aji dulce pepper in a pot 1. The market will accept fresh ají dulce in any of these colors.
You must grow this one. Aji dulce 1 pepper seeds known as ajicitoo aji gustoso ají cachucha sweet 25 seeds. For those who like the flavor and aroma of habanero peppers but find them too hot. The fruits are highly aromatic and the flavor is unusual and complex with overtones of black pepper and coriander and undertones of other spicy flavors.
How hot are aji dulce peppers. Both are fantastic for gourmet cooking. Aji dulce peppers a small prized very flavorful sweet pepper found in latin american and caribbean cooking this is the highlight sweet pepper used in our cubanero sauce. Ají dulce ají cachucha quechucha ajicito or ají gustoso is any of a variety of sweet perennial peppers found in latin america and the caribbean.
Aji dulce has the same shape size color and aroma of habanero but is sweet spicy and delicious with only a trace of heat. Fill a 12 inch pot 3 4 full with the mixture. Mix equal parts potting soil compost perlite and sphagnum moss. When planting seedlings place the plant in the center.
The peppers start off green and mature to bright orange yellow or mostly to a vibrant red. Makes perfect pepper flakes for sprinkling on your foods. To me aji dulce taste like bubble gum but thats just me. Meet the aji dulce also known as ajicito or aji cachucha.