Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds - Mild Flavor - Great for Mexican Sauces

Productive plants, we picked lots of Pasilla chile. When dried they have a very rich and intense earthy flavor with a sweet, fruity, and almost raisin-like aroma. I dry them into pliable half pods to store on a cookie sheet my car dash in the hot sun. Works great, takes 1-2 days, I slice them in half and lay them inside up (skin down) to help them dry more quickly. I rotate them at some point. When dried, they should be leathery, pliable, and bend without breaking. Bonus: it makes the car smell good for a few days after. I hear you can also do it in an oven at 150˚ F for 8-10+ hours, but mine doesn't go that low... plus the solar car heat is free and who wants to heat up the house?! Once dried, I store my pasillas in an airtight glass canning jar in my cupboard. Over the winter I rehydrate them in hot water to blend into sauces like mole or incredible enchilada sauces, as well as tomato soup or to make rich salsas. I also cut them up into small pieces to throw into chile or potato stews... you really can't go wrong with these Pasilla chile.

Only gave 3 stars as this will be 1st time ive used this variety. These seed will be for this years 2025 crop. Am hopeing they perform well and will review this fall to verify thier success.

Pasilla Bajio / Chilaca Chile Seeds

Pasilla Bajio / Chilaca Chile Seeds

Pasilla are very flavorful peppers – easy to dry and very productive plants. We like crushing the dried chiles into soups and sauces, they add so much flavor. Highly recommend, I grow them every year. Your seeds are great.

1st year trying these Chile Seeds. Seeded 4 cells of these Chile's, Shared 2 and planted 2 in our garden. Plants reached 36"+ in height with heavy yields. I wasn't wild about eating them fresh but we loaded 3 trays in our dehydrator and now have 2 zip lock bags of dried chiles!

We’ve been growing this pepper for 15 years at least at our garden center. It has its own followers, people come in year after year for it. We do not sell many but those that know it want it, employees and customers alike. Productive and very nice flavor.