Recommended for outdoor growing
as rocotos tend to like colder nights, the days can however still be very warm.
Not exact matches
I do think juicing works well with the smaller, fleshy, super hot chiles such
as habaneros and
rocotos.
Our chilehead friend from Finland, Jukka Kilpinnen, has mastered the technique of bonsai chile plants,
as evidenced by this beautiful
rocoto plant in a classic bonsai pot.
In Bolivia, freshly ground locoto or
rocoto chiles are mixed with the bark of uña de gato, or cat claw (probably an Acacia species) and used
as a poultice on the afflicted area.
In her juicing experiments published on Fiery Foods & BBQ Central, here, Food Editor Emeritus Nancy Gerlach wrote: «I do think juicing works well with the smaller, fleshy, superhot chiles such
as habaneros and
rocotos.
As Doris Platt Rodriguez, the Peruvian owner of the restaurant Andina in Portland, Oregon says, «a sauce made with
rocoto is the hot sauce por excelencia.
Varieties such
as habaneros and
rocotos are especially prone to sunscald — and both perform and yield better under the netting than they do in open, unshaded plots.
Locoto is among the oldest of domesticated peppers, up to
as much
as 5000 years... → Read More: The
Rocoto
Because of the worldwide popularity of gastronomic tours a Peruvian travel operator, published his book in which they describe all the typical flavors and ingredients used in the Peruvian cuisine such
as rice, potatoes, onions, the different kinds of meat and the 3 types of Peruvian peppers (the yellow, the red and the
rocoto red).