Chilli & heat · Dried
Chilhuacle negro chillies
Also called chilhuacle negro, chilhuacle chilli, black chilhuacle
A dark, wide, almost prune-black dried chilli grown in Oaxaca and the signature chilli of mole negro; buy it dried online or in Mexican grocers.
- A kind of Dried chillies
What can replace it
- T1 · Great swapMulato chillies
- T2 · GoodAncho chillies
You lose some of the leathery bitterness and fruit; add a few extra mulato seeds to compensate.
- T2 · GoodPasilla chillies
Milder and more raisiny, with less of the dark, brooding quality that defines a mole negro.
Cook with Chilhuacle negro chillies