Re: [CH] hontaca pepper?

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Terry Pogue wrote:
> This was posted in my Mexican group. Can anyone here help with this 
> question?
> terry
>
> Does anyone know what a hontaca pepper is? I have a couple of recipes 
> that
> I love (from a restaurant) that call for this pepper both chopped and 
> ground.
>
> I cannot find anything that tells me what this is. 
I know it's one of the peppers that was used a lot by the Texas Chili 
professional Franklin X. Tolbert.  I do know that it's very close to the 
Santaka pepper.  Santaka's also known as a Japones pepper.  Hontakas are 
an Asian cultivar.

http://tinyseeds.com/0120.html

This has a little bit of information on it...

http://www.foodsubs.com/Chilefre.html

You can order hontaka chilis here...

http://www.spicyglobe.com/c48994p16235033.2.html

and you can see what they look like on this website.... fourth one down 
on the left.

I find them not very hot but they have a nice flavor.

http://www.yongfa-chili.com/English/cpzs.htm

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