These feisty peppers can deliver heat that can range from 30,000 Scoville Heat Units (SHUs) on the Scoville Scale up to 100,000 SHUs. This puts the charapita chile at about the same spice level as ...

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Aji amarillo (“yellow chile pepper”) is native to the Andes region of Peru and Bolivia. It’s one of a group of peppers that include aji rocoto, aji limo, aji panca and aji charapita, all of ...