Serious Eats: Recipes
Pasilla Raisin Salsa
Pasilla means “raisin” in Spanish, so we thought it only natural to combine these crinkly, black, mildly hot dried chiles with some of the dried grapes that share their name. The resulting salsa has a rich, almost ketchup-like quality—and we mean that as a compliment. Its sweet-hot-tart flavor goes well with salty foods like quesadillas, though we’ve been known to slather it on a burger too.
In developing this salsa, we were influenced by the fantastic Ersatz Papalote Salsa by Max La Rivière-Hedrick from Chow.