OCTOBER: Chiltipin

Arizona Local Food Feature

Farm: You might notice these at your local farmer's market and you can also buy seeds here.

Nutrition Components: Vitamin A & C

Recipe: Crushed Preserved Chiltipins

Use care when harvesting these spicy peppers! You can let them air-dry and then grind them to add to salsa, mole, pesto, chili, and more! These peppers can also dry on the plant and then harvested as well.

Flavor Profile: spicy

Classroom Activity Suggestion: As a defense mechanism, chilitipin have different germination rates which make for a fun classroom experiment. Make predictions and observations about how many and when they will germinate over a given amount of time and then present on the findings!