• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

CooksInfo

  • Home
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Recipes
  • Food Calendar
menu icon
go to homepage
search icon
Homepage link
  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar
×
Home » Vegetables » Peppers » Chile Peppers » Serrano Chile Peppers

Serrano Chile Peppers

Serrano PeppersSerrano Peppers
© Denzil Green
Contents hide
  • 1 Cooking Tips
  • 2 Substitutes
  • 3 Equivalents
  • 4 Literature & Lore

Serrano Chile Peppers can be red or green. They are hotter than jalapeno, fresno or guero chiles.

Serrano chile plants can grow up to 1.5 metres (5 feet) tall. The peppers can be between 2 to 10 cm (1 to 4 inches) long, and are about 1 cm (½ inch) wide.

Most serranos are grown in Mexico; varieties include “Altamira”, “Hidalgo”, “Panuco”, and “Tampiqueño.”

Chile heat: Medium. Between 10,000 and 20,000 Scoville Units.

Cooking Tips

The most prevalent uses of serranos are as pickled peppers in a type of “antipasto” snack mix, or chopped and incorporated into fresh salsas.

Serrano Chile Peppers have thin, tender skins, so they don’t need to be peeled before using.

If you can’t find them fresh, look for them dried, pickled or just tinned.

Substitutes

Jalapeno, with some added hot sauce.

Equivalents

1 whole serrano with seeds and stem weighs approx 10 g

Literature & Lore

Serrano in Spanish means “from the mountains”.

Other names

French: Piment Serrano

This page first published: Sep 2, 2002 · Updated: Jun 3, 2018.

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · Information on this site is Copyright © 2023· Feel free to cite correctly, but copying whole pages for your website is content theft and will be DCMA'd.

Tagged With: Chile Peppers

Primary Sidebar

Search

    Today is

  • Lemon Chiffon Cake Day
    Lemon chiffon cake

Footer

↑ back to top

About

  • About this site
  • Privacy Policy
  • Copyright enforced!
  • Terms & Conditions

Newsletter

  • Sign Up! for emails and updates

Site

  • Recipes
  • Encyclopaedia
  • Kitchenware
  • Food Calendar

This web site generates income from affiliated links and ads at no cost to you to fund continued research · The text on this site is © Copyright.