Morita Salsa RecipeDid you know that a Morita chile is really a smoked ripe jalapeño? Morita chiles are similar to Chipotle peppers in this respect, the difference being that Moritas are mildly smoked for less time than Chipotle peppers, so they are softer and they maintain their subtle fruity characteristics while developing a rich chocolatey aroma. Dried and crushed Morita chiles are ideal for use in soups, stews, beans, and chilis. Morita chiles can be used instead of Chipotle peppers in recipes. Moritas a...
Vegan Jalapeno Poppers RecipeYou can make your own hummus or use store-bought hummus for this delicious vegan / vegetarian version of Jalapeño Poppers. Vegan Jalapeno Poppers Recipe Ingredients: Make your own Hummus:• 1 can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained • 3-5 garlic cloves • ½ tsp black pepper • ½ tsp red pepper • ¼ cup water • Juice of 1 lemon, plus grate a little of the lemon rind • 2 Tablespoons of Olive oil, Sesame Oil or use Tahini if you have it • 8-10 Jalapenos, sliced in half, seeds r...
Hottest Pepper 2020The Hottest Pepper in 2020 is the infamous Carolina Reaper! While a lot of other contenders have come onto the market in the past few years, the Reaper still carries the Guinness World Record crown for being the world's hottest pepper in 2020.Developed by pepper breeder Ed Currie in South Carolina, this wicked beast of a pepper is red with a gnarled, bumpy texture and a small pointed tail. Guinness World Records declared it the hottest chili pepper in the world in 2013, and it has held th...
Grow a Hatch PatchIf you love growing vegetables, then you should grow your own Hatch Patch! What is Hatch? Hatch chiles are the most delicious chiles you can grow. If you have ever lived in New Mexico or tasted Hatch green chile then you know you can’t live without it! Even if you don't live in New Mexico, you can experience that wonderful flavor of green chile wherever you live by growing them yourself! Be prepared because green chile is addictive, just ask any New Mexican. Like Champagne, the Hatch name...
The Chile PatchThe Chili Patch Old Town, Albuquerque, New MexicoThis cool shop has lots of colorful ceramics, textiles, clothing, glassware and other beautiful things. We sure do love all the fun shops in Albuquerque! See who carries our seeds: Want to find out who sells our seeds in your town? Find all the shops that sell our seeds in our Store Locator »If your local plant nursery or garden center doesn't carry our seeds, just ask! Lots of shops love to add requested seeds to their inventory if pe...
Shishito Pepper AppetizerHarvest about 15 peppers from your plant and rinse. Heat 1 Tbsp olive oil in amedium hot skillet. Place peppers in skillet after poking each with a fork to prevent from exploding while they cook. Fry about 5 minutes until the peppers are a little brown and soft. Sprinkle with sea salt and serve warm. When eating, pick up the pepper by the stem and eat the entire pepper, seeds and all. Discard the stem. View more of our chile pepper recipes »
Pepper SeedsSandia Seed has pepper seeds from all the chile peppers you can think of: hatch chile pepper seeds, anaheim pepper seeds, bhut jolokia ghost pepper seeds, habanero seeds, jalapeno seeds, and sweet pepper seeds such as shishito pepper seeds, which are wonderful japanese peppers that are very popular with chefs! Our GMO-free Pepper seeds are gathered fresh every year from New Mexican farms, bringing you the authentic New Mexican hatch chile varieties, as well as some of the hottest pepper seed...
How to Germinate Pepper SeedsWhat You will need: Pepper seeds Indoor/Outdoor potting soil Plastic growing tray, at least 2” deep with holes for drainage Seed germination warming mat Grow light or bright window Distilled water Labels. Fill growing tray almost to the top with potting soil. Moisten thoroughly with water and allow to drain completely. Always use distilled water. Make an indentation with a pencil eraser approx. a quarter of an inch deep or less, about every 2 inches in the soil. Place one pepper seed int...
Roasting Green Chile is Easy!Put fresh green chiles on a propane grill on medium high heat. Grill until the outer skin is brown and bubbly. Keep turning until entire chile has brown thin paper skin. Remove from grill and place into a plastic bag with 1/4 cup water. Steam for 5 minutes. Remove from bag and peel outer skin away! Yum! Grow your own Hatch chile seeds and you can harvest and roast chiles right from your own garden. Hatch Chiles are actually quite easy to grow around the world, the plants love summer heat. ...
Trinidad Moruga ScorpionTrinidad Moruga Scorpion Look at all the hot capsacin inside this pepper! Capsicum chinense (120 days) Pods are 2-1/2" wide with wrinkled reddish orange skin.They have a fruit like flavor, with nuclear heat! This pepper contains so much capsacin that the chemical blasts past the numbing response and keeps activating receptors in the nerve endings in your mouth. This produces ferocious burning sensations. Chile burns and heat burns are similar at the molecular, cellular, and sensory levels...
Chile Peppers are a Hot Diet FoodHot Peppers help boost your metabolism and induces the body to burn off more fat instead of storing it in the body. So, if you want to lose weight, eating hot peppers as part of your diet will help boost your weight loss success.Several studies have shown that hot peppers can curb your appetite, burn fat, and inhibit fat cell growth.One representative clinical study conducted by scientists at the Laval University in Quebec found that eating cayenne at breakfast decreased appetite and led to l...
Yellow Scotch BonnetThe Yellow Scotch Bonnet (Bahamian, Bahama Mama, Jamaican Hot or Martinique Pepper) is a very hot pepper, closely related to the Habanero and has about the same heat levels. The shape is different and resembles a Scot’s Bonnet, hence the name. The Yellow Scotch Bonnet is very important in the Jamaican cuisine and the Cayman Islands. That’s why Jamaican Jerk and other Caribbean dishes have a unique taste. Jerk is a way of cooking that is originated in Jamaica. Meat is rubbed with a very sharp ...
When to Harvest PeppersA good time to harvest peppers is when they are full size and have matured to their full color. Well that's easy to say, but another thing when looking at the plant full of fruit. The best thing to do is to cut one pepper off the plant and taste it. If it is bitter and tastes a little green, wait another week and try again. A general rule is to use the number of days to maturity, but that will vary in different growing conditions. Both sweet and hot peppers can be eaten at all stages of g...
“I love these seeds!!”Here's a nice comment from one of our customers:“I love these seeds!! I have planted some of your seeds here in So. California and I have good things to report! First, the Heritage 6-4 plants are produced some BIG boys. I will be preparing rellenos tomorrow night to try them out—I am excited! The Sandias are lookin' good. But I think I may let them turn red for ristras— not sure. I can't wait to taste these chilies. It's been so long since I have savored real New Mexico chilie...
Guajillo, Fresno and Red Cherry Hot Peppers......are just a few of the new varieties we will offer for the 2016 season! Also included will be Trinidad Scorpion 'Butch T', 7 Pot Douglah, 7 Pot Jonah, 7 Pot Barrackpore, Yellow Brain Strain, Peach Bhut Jolokia, White Bhut jolokia, Sweet Banana, Golden Greek Pepperoncini, Pimiento, Legacy Big Jim, Jamaican Hot Chocolate and a few more! We are so excited to be adding these the great peppers to our collection. They will all be available the first week of November!
Fresh hot reaper!Wow! This is such a productive pepper! The plants are overflowing with fruit and when it's cut open it is wet with capsaicin! Now to see what it's like to chew on a little piece. Wish me luck, and get some seeds to grow your own!
I'm going to grow these every year, they are HOT!! They make great poppers and salsa. Very productive, easy to grow, quick germination and fast growing plants. Thank you for the stellar seeds.
I planted several cultivars from wholesale seed. These were prolific. See all that RED (and green)?!? Looking forward to harvesting in a few days. Thank You Sandia Seed!
I pretty much use Sandia seeds exclusively! A few years ago I just happened to order your Jalapeño M. To me it's the perfect Jalapeño! Really nice size! Perfect heat for what we like! Wonderful flavor with a meatyness that's perfect for many different uses! I make my own Sriracha so I wait for them to turn red. They're one of my base peppers for my sauce! I praise them to all my personal friends and to members of groups that I belong to!
Serrano Hidalgo Seeds fromSandia Seed produce even in the HOT drought of central Illinois this year! I love adding a little Mexican kick to my salsa but also tossing these on the grill! They have great flavor and produce all summer long!
I had looked high & low, and searched the web with many word combinations ‘looking’ specifically for my favorite chili, the Dynamite xx Hot… so I could grow my own. The peppers were sold in Colorado at select places during roasting season, but you couldn’t buy seeds for them… anywhere!
Finally, as luck and persistence would have it, I discovered Sandia Seed Company.
Thank you Sandia! I planted them and had a great crop this year. I plan on growing them every year as well as trying some of their other seeds,
There's just something fun about growing a jalapeno that is light enough in color that some people think it's a banana pepper. LOL! I picked these just for color variety, and I'm very pleased that my plants have been loaded with them all season! We donated about 50 lbs of mixed peppers this year from our garden and I still had enough to freeze some and can more jars of recipes than we'll probably be able to use before next season. All my peppers were from Sandia Seed Company. I've never had such great pepper production before using these seeds!!
This spinach germinated well, and produced way more spinach than I'd initially expected. It grew really well, was slow to bolt in the summer, and has a really nice mild flavor for salads or steamed.
This was my first time growing these and I will definitely be growing them from now on. Great germination and very sturdy plants that have withstood some really high winds. Huge long peppers that are excellent green or red, very easy to peel skin.
Growing these in Florida, (Recent transplant of NM).
Lovely peppers. Took a couple weeks is all and wow! I have several budding; 2 large enough to nickname. They're still in their infancy, but I can tell they are going to be great! Love the seeds!
I got these to make Chipotle chilis. These fruit early and are mild-ish when green, but when they ripen, they are perfect for smoking and drying with great flavor and nice heat. Don't plant too many as they are quite prolific.
Morita Salsa Recipe
Did you know that a Morita chile is really a smoked ripe jalapeño? Morita chiles are similar to Chipotle peppers in this respect, the difference being that Moritas are mildly smoked for less time than Chipotle peppers, so they are softer and they maintain their subtle fruity characteristics while developing a rich chocolatey aroma. Dried and crushed Morita chiles are ideal for use in soups, stews, beans, and chilis. Morita chiles can be used instead of Chipotle peppers in recipes. Moritas a...
Vegan Jalapeno Poppers Recipe
You can make your own hummus or use store-bought hummus for this delicious vegan / vegetarian version of Jalapeño Poppers. Vegan Jalapeno Poppers Recipe Ingredients: Make your own Hummus:• 1 can of garbanzo beans (chickpeas), drained • 3-5 garlic cloves • ½ tsp black pepper • ½ tsp red pepper • ¼ cup water • Juice of 1 lemon, plus grate a little of the lemon rind • 2 Tablespoons of Olive oil, Sesame Oil or use Tahini if you have it • 8-10 Jalapenos, sliced in half, seeds r...
Hottest Pepper 2020
The Hottest Pepper in 2020 is the infamous Carolina Reaper! While a lot of other contenders have come onto the market in the past few years, the Reaper still carries the Guinness World Record crown for being the world's hottest pepper in 2020.Developed by pepper breeder Ed Currie in South Carolina, this wicked beast of a pepper is red with a gnarled, bumpy texture and a small pointed tail. Guinness World Records declared it the hottest chili pepper in the world in 2013, and it has held th...
Grow a Hatch Patch
If you love growing vegetables, then you should grow your own Hatch Patch! What is Hatch? Hatch chiles are the most delicious chiles you can grow. If you have ever lived in New Mexico or tasted Hatch green chile then you know you can’t live without it! Even if you don't live in New Mexico, you can experience that wonderful flavor of green chile wherever you live by growing them yourself! Be prepared because green chile is addictive, just ask any New Mexican. Like Champagne, the Hatch name...
The Chile Patch
The Chili Patch Old Town, Albuquerque, New MexicoThis cool shop has lots of colorful ceramics, textiles, clothing, glassware and other beautiful things. We sure do love all the fun shops in Albuquerque! See who carries our seeds: Want to find out who sells our seeds in your town? Find all the shops that sell our seeds in our Store Locator »If your local plant nursery or garden center doesn't carry our seeds, just ask! Lots of shops love to add requested seeds to their inventory if pe...
Shishito Pepper Appetizer
Harvest about 15 peppers from your plant and rinse. Heat 1 Tbsp olive oil in amedium hot skillet. Place peppers in skillet after poking each with a fork to prevent from exploding while they cook. Fry about 5 minutes until the peppers are a little brown and soft. Sprinkle with sea salt and serve warm. When eating, pick up the pepper by the stem and eat the entire pepper, seeds and all. Discard the stem. View more of our chile pepper recipes »
How to Germinate Pepper Seeds
What You will need: Pepper seeds Indoor/Outdoor potting soil Plastic growing tray, at least 2” deep with holes for drainage Seed germination warming mat Grow light or bright window Distilled water Labels. Fill growing tray almost to the top with potting soil. Moisten thoroughly with water and allow to drain completely. Always use distilled water. Make an indentation with a pencil eraser approx. a quarter of an inch deep or less, about every 2 inches in the soil. Place one pepper seed int...
Chile Peppers are a Hot Diet Food
Hot Peppers help boost your metabolism and induces the body to burn off more fat instead of storing it in the body. So, if you want to lose weight, eating hot peppers as part of your diet will help boost your weight loss success.Several studies have shown that hot peppers can curb your appetite, burn fat, and inhibit fat cell growth.One representative clinical study conducted by scientists at the Laval University in Quebec found that eating cayenne at breakfast decreased appetite and led to l...
