According to the sauce, which chiles can you use?
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Kiwilimón - 2018-10-08T17:06:27.588569Z
For every taste, Mexican cuisine has a wide variety of sauces that use different chiles for their preparation. Here we tell you which ones are the most commonly used. Which sauce have you yet to try?
Green sauce
Serrano chile: Small in size and green in color, this chile can be quite spicy to the palate.
Red sauce
Tree chiles: It is thin and elongated, but it can also add plenty of heat to your sauces.
Drunken sauce
Chipotle chile: It is a smoked jalapeño that is not too spicy. It is called drunken sauce because the recipe includes beer.
Mexican sauce or pico de gallo
Serrano chiles: For a hearty taco with chicharrón, this sauce is a must, it is very typical on Mexican tables because it carries the colors of the flag, green in the chiles, red in the tomatoes, and white in the onion.
Tamulada sauce
Habanero chile: It is one of the spiciest chiles available, and to make the sauce you can grind them with vinegar, salt, and orange.
Peanut sauce
Pasilla chile: In its fresh form, it is called chilaca, but when dried it is known as pasilla, perhaps because it wrinkles like a raisin, and it is generally a dark brown color.
Brave sauce
Guajillo chile: It is a deep red color and somewhat elongated, in addition to being crushed for sauces, it is a main ingredient for cooking pozole.
Oaxacan sauce
Mulato, ancho, and adobo chipotle chiles: This typical sauce generally includes dried and ground shrimp, sesame seeds, and onion.
Devilish sauce
Pasilla chile: It is called this because it is extremely spicy, as more than 20 pasilla chiles can be used for its preparation.
Molcajete sauce or guacamole
Serrano or jalapeño chiles: It is perhaps the easiest sauce to prepare, and some say that if it is not made in a molcajete, it is not authentic guacamole.
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