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How to Plant and Grow Serrano Peppers Capsicum annuum ‘Serrano’Looking for more heat than jalapenos offer, but you don’t want a pepper so spicy it will melt your tastebuds? Hello, serrano!
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These peppers are popular for a reason. The good amount of heat they offer doesn’t overpower their pleasant grassy flavor, and the juicy flesh is the perfect thing for salsas and sauces.
You can cook with them or eat them raw right off the plant. Either way, you’re in for a treat.
Growing serranos yourself gives a measure of control over the heat level and you can decide whether to harvest them young and green, or wait until they’re mature and red when the spiciness has mellowed a bit.
We’ll cover all the tricks to know when growing this staple of Mexican cuisine. Here’s what to expect:
Serranos are a staple in my kitchen and garden, and I can’t imagine a summer without the opportunity to pluck them straight off the plants. So let’s not wait any longer to start growing!
What Are Serranos?Serrano peppers are part of the Capsicum genus. Botanically, serranos are chilies, not peppers. True peppers are plants in the Piper genus, with black pepper – the one we harvest black pepper seasoning from – being perhaps the most famous.
Why do we call chilies “peppers?” As with many naming errors, this goes back to Christopher Columbus.
When he and his crew arrived in the Americas, they encountered the domesticated plants and likened them to the Piper plants with which they were familiar in Europe.
Despite the misnomer, we’ll refer to peppers and chilies interchangeably as plants in the Capsicum genus in this guide, since that’s how most people
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