Pure Hatch chile pods, compressed into pellets for homemade sauce.
Skip the soaking, stemming, and messy cleanup. Add hot water to pure sun-cured Hatch red or green chile pellets, blend for 40 minutes, and pour rich, authentic New Mexican sauce.
From dry pellets to rich sauce in 40 minutes
No roasting, peeling, or seeding. Add boiling water, let the pods steep, and blend to a smooth, authentic New Mexican sauce.
Ready to make real Hatch chile at home?
Choose between signature red chile or flame-roasted green chile packs.
Two distinct harvests, one simple method.
Choose sun-cured red pods for deep, smoky warmth or flame-roasted green pods for a crisp, charred bite.
Hatch Red Chile
Featured chile pellets
Sun-cured whole pods compressed into convenient kitchen pellets. Add hot water, blend for 40 minutes, and enjoy homemade sauce.
Authentic Hatch flavor, none of the prep work
Whole sun-cured Hatch chile pods compressed into pure culinary pellets. Just add hot water and blend for 40 minutes to make silky, homemade sauce.
Whole dried pods
- Tedious hand destemming and deseeding
- Sticky chile oil on cutting boards and hands
- Straining skins and long stovetop reduction
CHILIPEL pellets
- Ready to drop straight into your blender
- Clean countertop with zero seed scatter
- Rich homemade sauce in 40 minutes flat
Whole dried pods
- Unpredictable pod-to-pod heat swings
- Wild batch inconsistencies from bag to bag
- Difficult to balance for family meals
CHILIPEL pellets
- Consistent Scoville level across every pellet
- Exact ratio guides for mild, medium, or hot
- Reliable restaurant-grade depth every time
Commercial canned sauce
- Filled with cornstarch and flour fillers
- Artificial preservatives and high sodium
- Muted flavor from industrial retort cooking
CHILIPEL pellets
- 100% genuine New Mexico chile harvest
- Zero preservatives, binders, or thickeners
- Fresh earthy aroma unlocked with hot water
Real cooks, real Hatch flavor in 40 minutes
See how home cooks and chefs turn pure chile pellets into rich, homemade sauce without the mess.
"Making authentic red chile sauce used to take all Sunday with destemming and soaking dry pods. These pellets dissolved smoothly in hot water and delivered that exact deep, sun-cured Hatch flavor with zero bitterness."
Verified Home Cook • Albuquerque, NM
"The roasted aroma right out of the blender is unmistakable. I tossed them in hot broth, blended for a minute, and had a thick, fiery green chile base ready for slow-cooking pork shoulder."
Weekend Pitmaster • Austin, TX
"I was skeptical of chile in pellet form until I tested the sauce viscosity and heat profile against whole pods. It is 100% pure chile without fillers—clean, rich, and remarkably simple for my students to master."
Culinary Instructor • Santa Fe, NM
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