Mora chile

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About Mora chile
Chiles are green and red vegetables characterized by a hot taste and used as a spice or as a vegetable. The chiles have, besides numerous uses in the culinary preparations, some important medical benefits, as they are toners, stimulants, benefic in muscular cramps, chronic alcoholism and various pains. Mora chile basically represents the smoked and then dried jalapeno - but only the red ones. The mora chile is wrinkled in appearance and has a brownish-red color, as it means blackberry. The size of this chile is medium, as the chile gets to grow till 4 cm in length. As opposite to the serano chile, the morita pepper is made of a younger and rarer specie of jalapeno in an intense red color. The name of this chile is also known as rojo mora, meaning red blackberry.

Among the most famous recipes that include the mora chile are spicy tortilla roll-ups, made with green chilies and hot pepper sauce, made of fresh mora peppers and the grilled chicken quesadillas (with morita chili peppers, olives, cheese and adobo seasoning and cut in bite sized pieces).