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Chipotle Sauce Recipe

How to make chipotle sauce from scratch.
Prep Time10 minutes
Total Time10 minutes
Course: Sauces
Cuisine: Mexican
Keyword: chipotle, sauce

Ingredients

  • 2 tomatoes
  • 2 chipotles from a can - more if you want it hotter
  • 1/2 cup of water
  • 1 or 2 sprigs of fresh cilantro - chopped

Instructions

  • Start by roasting the tomatoes. You can roast them in the oven or atop the stove. In the photo above, you see Paula roasting one over my gas burner's flame.
  • Being careful not to burn yourself, you hold the tomato with a fork over the flame until the skin turns black and then peel it off over the sink.
  • Transfer the tomatoes to a blender.
  • Add the chipotles to the blender and then the water. Puree this together in the blender and pour into a bowl.
  • Stir in the chopped cilantro, and you are ready to go. If the sauce is too thin for your liking, you can cook it down some in a pan, but realize the sauce will get hotter the more you cook it down, so be careful.