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

Name: Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds - Mild Flavor - Easy Grow
Brand: Sandia Seed Company
SKU: 661799-937146
Price: 2.49 USD
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Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds - Mild Flavor, Rich Tradition

Elevate your Mexican cuisine with Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Chile Seeds, the secret behind authentic mole sauces and salsas. These heirloom seeds produce versatile peppers that transform from fresh, sweet chilacas to smoky, raisin-like pasillas when dried—a true culinary chameleon for your garden and kitchen.

Why Grow Pasilla Bajio/Chilaca Peppers?

Dual-Purpose Delight: Enjoy them fresh as 8-10" dark green chilacas for enchilada sauces, or dry them into pasillas for rich, complex moles. Their mild heat (1,000-2,000 Scoville) and sweet-to-smoky flavor profile make them a staple in Mexican cooking.

Heirloom Heritage: Open-pollinated and non-GMO, these tall 30" plants yield abundant narrow peppers that mature from dark green to brown-just like generations of Mexican growers have cultivated.

Grow Your Own Flavor

Perfect for gardeners of all levels! Start seeds indoors 8 weeks before warm weather (85°F soil temp ensures germination in 7-21 days). Transplant to sunny garden beds or 5-gallon containers, spacing 30" apart. Harvest when peppers darken for peak flavor.

Packet contains: 10 premium seeds ready to bring authentic Mexican heat to your table.

"Little raisins" with big flavor-sow your pasilla passion today!

Each packet contains 10 seeds
Heat Level: Mild
SHU: 1,000-2,000
Maturity: 85 days after transplant
Pod Size: 8-10 in. Plant Size: 30 in.
Origin: Mexico
Capsicum annuum
Heirloom - Open-Pollinated
Untreated and Non-GMO

Discover our Recipes using Pasilla peppers:
Pasilla Mole Recipe
Red Chile Sauce Recipe
Salsa Recipes

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Customers praised these seeds for producing "productive plants" with "heavy yields" of flavorful chiles. Gardeners appreciated the "rich and intense earthy flavor" and ease of drying. Plants reach 36"+ height. One customer noted they weren't ideal fresh but excellent dried. Most grow them annually for sauces, soups, and salsas.

Productive plants, we picked lots of Pasilla chile with rich and intense earthy flavor.
Very flavorful peppers – easy to dry and very productive plants. Highly recommend.
Productive and very nice flavor. People come in year after year for it.

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5 stars: 6 (86%)
4 stars: 0 (0%)
3 stars: 1 (14%)
2 stars: 0 (0%)
1 star: 0 (0%)

Productive plants, lots of Pasilla chile

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.

Preliminary review

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

Delicious

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.

Excellent peppers for chile powder blend

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!

Great pepper!

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.

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