Chillies
Buy Chillies from Mexico at MexGrocer.co.uk, online grocery store for authentic Mexican food & Chillies
We specialise a broad range of chili peppers including Green Chillies, Jalapeno Chillies, Chipotle Chillies, Serrano Chillies, Ancho Chillies and all types of Mexican Chillies & peppers.
You can buy Hot Chillies, Sweet Chillies, Cooking Chiles, and even the hottest Chiles: Habanero Chilies.
Chiles come in a variety of heatscales from Mind Blowing like the Habanero to the mild like the Green Chile. Finally Chili Peppers are abundant in UK Cooking and the Chile Cook has a range of fine peppers to choose from. Chili peppers are popular in food. They are rich in
vitamin C and are believed to have many beneficial effects on health
The substances that gives chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically are
capsaicin (8-methyl-
N-vanillyl-6-nonenamide) and several related chemicals, collectively called
capsaicinoids. Capsaicin is the primary ingredient in
pepper spray.
The "heat" of chili peppers is measured in
Scoville units (SHU).
Bell peppers
rank at 0 (SHU), New Mexico green chilis at about 1,500 SHU, jalapeños
at 3,000–6,000 SHU, and habaneros at 300,000 SHU. The record for the
hottest chili pepper was assigned by the
Guinness Book of Records to the
Naga Jolokia, measuring over 1,000,000 SHU. Pure
capsaicin, which is a hydrophobic, colorless, odorless, crystalline to waxy solid at room temperature, measures 16,000,000 SHU.
Chillis add more than just heat to a dish, they add depth of flavour and tone to many Mexican Dishes and in some dishes like Mole there are more than one chilli flavour being used.
Peppers are commonly broken down into three groupings: bell peppers,
sweet peppers, and hot peppers. Most popular pepper varieties are seen
as falling into one of these categories or as a cross between them.
