American chefs and cookbook authors love to wax poetic about the unique flavor of the fresh
habanero relatives.
Any of
the habanero relatives can be substituted for any other — Scotch bonnets for datil peppers, for example.
The habanero relatives that we have collected and planted over the years are but a small fraction of the total number of pod types in the species.
Many
habanero relatives grow in the Amazon Basin, where the species was domesticated.
Some cooks still use old - fashioned curry pastes, which usually have Congo peppers (
a Habanero relative) added to them, and our recipe for Trinidadian Curry Paste (here) is a typical example.
The «Fatalii» is an African variety, similar to the «Devil's Tongue» except somewhat longer, and also
a habanero relative.
Ata rodo is Capsicum chinense,
the habanero relative.
Not exact matches
The Scotch Bonnet pepper is a
relative of the
habanero chile, and is said to be at least fifty times hotter than the mighty jalapeño.
One of greatest
habanero -
relatives out there.
Not too hot for a
habanero -
relative.
Scotch Bonnet Peppers (Capsicum chinense) are quite small but extremely hot similar to the
habanero / habañero and close
relative of rocoto / rocotillo chilli peppers.