[CH] Want a rocoto hot sauce

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Robert

The only rocoto sauces I've found anywhere are in a Central American grocery in a Boston suburb.  As you said, they all have a smooth paste-like consistency.  I've found them to be VERY salty, too.  One is called something like Inca Panca.  The same manufacturer makes a bright yellow sauce made from aji chiles that has the same consitency and salt content as the rocoto sauce.  At this same store, I've found canned rocotos and ajis, as well as pickled chiltepins.  The canned chiles basically taste like the can and are very watery.  To the best of my knowledge, there is no other commercial rocoto sauce.  I tried to grow these chiles but got a few undersize pods ripening and rotting simultaneously indoors in mid-winter (after planting in late May).   If I ever do get a reasonable crop, I'll make a sauce out of 'em.

Jeff
Jeffro's Serious Sauces
http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jeffroz/home.html

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