What Are Red chili pods and How Can I Use Them?
Wondering what to do with red chili pods? This guide covers how to pick them, cook them, store them, and swap them — with 9 recipes to put them to work.
| In Chinese: | 红辣椒荚 | |
| British (UK) term: | Red chili pods | |
| en français: | gousses de piment rouge | |
| en español: | vainas de chile rojo |
Recipes using red chili pods
There are 9 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Beefy Chili
Beefy chili is a Texas-style chili made with fresh dried chili pod paste, ground beef, oregano, cumin, and red wine. No beans, no powder, just deep slow-simmered authentic flavor.
Delicious Kung Pao Chicken
Kung Pao chicken stir-fries marinated chicken with dried red chilies, bamboo shoots, and peanuts in a sweet, savory, slightly tangy sauce. Authentic Sichuan technique in 40 minutes.
Chile Colorado
A from-scratch red chile sauce made with dried chile pods, cumin seeds, garlic, and oregano pureed smooth. The essential building block for enchiladas, tamales, and smothered burritos.
Pueblo Fire
Pueblo Fire is a New Mexican red chile soup with dried chile pods blended smooth, browned beef round steak, and barbecue sauce, simmered for an hour. A fiery, rustic Southwestern bowl.
Pan-fried fillet of Seabass with Nobilo Regional Collection Sauvignon Blanc
Delicious Pan-fried fillet of seabass on grilled asparagus with mustard seed, mango and toasted coconut salad, served with a glass of Nobilo Regional Collection Sauvignon Blanc, 2008, £8.49 from Asda, Thresher, Morrison's, Sainsbury's, Somerfield, Tesco
Spicy Paprika Chili
Texas-style chili con carne with diced beef, whole red chili pods, paprika, and a cornmeal-flour thickener. No beans, no tomato, just deep meaty heat from a long slow simmer.
Spicy Buckwheat Noodles & Pork in Broth
Refreshingly tasty! All the ingredients in the recipe are complementary. If you can't handle the heat, reduce the amount of red chili to your own taste.
Posole
Traditional Mexican posole with pork loin, pork rinds, pork shanks, dried hominy, red chili pods, and oregano. A rich, hearty stew simmered low and slow for hours.
Red Enchilada Sauce
Homemade red enchilada sauce from whole dried chile pods, garlic, oregano, and cumin, thickened with a bacon drippings roux. Rich, smoky, and leagues ahead of anything from a can.
