Padma's Pickled Peppers?
After the November 29 show, we posted Padma Lakshmi's recipe for Francesco Clemente's Amazing Hot Sauce. A listener wrote us with this question:
"I love spicy food and often use chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. I have never seen "Pickled" chipolte peppers in adobo sauce. Are they the same thing as regular chipotle peppers in adobo sauce? I can't imagine using 13oz of regular chipotle peppers in a chutney. When I make chili I use 2 or 3 chilies (a 7oz can will have 5 or 6 chilies) and it heats up the whole batch. If this is a different type of chipotle pepper, and where can I find it?" - John.
Wow. That is a lot of peppers. Perhaps Padma's Indian palate has inured her to the flames of hell that 13 oz. of chipotles in adobo provides the rest of us. That doesn't explain her friend Clemente's ability to handle the heat though. I would just cut the amount of peppers down to a level I can stand.
Here's one place that sells pickled chipotle peppers.
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