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Red chile sauce

Red chile sauce is a smooth or textured sauce made from red chiles and used with meats, vegetables, grains, or tortillas.

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About Red chile sauce

Red chile salsa is a chile-based sauce or relish whose colour comes mainly from ripe red chiles, dried red chiles, or both. It may also include tomato, tomatillo, onion, garlic, herbs, spices, acid, or salt. It is served with tortillas, tacos, eggs, meats, vegetables, beans, grains, and other savoury foods.

Its texture ranges from coarse and spoonable to blended and pourable. Flavour may be fresh and vegetal, roasted and smoky, or deep and earthy, with heat balanced by acidity, sweetness, or savoury ingredients. Dried chiles often give a rounder, more concentrated flavour, while fresh chiles provide brighter notes.

Red chile salsa may be raw, boiled, roasted, fried, strained, or bottled. Chiles and other ingredients can be chopped for a rustic texture or blended into a smooth sauce. Toasting deepens aroma, boiling softens ingredients, and straining removes seeds and skins, producing a more even consistency.

Ingredient type
sauce

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Local names for red chile sauce

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English

Red chile salsa

English

red chile sauce

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Red chile sauce nutrition & diet

Red chile sauce nutritional value

Sauce, peppers, hot, chili, mature red, canned

Per 100 g of the edible portion in the recorded food form.

Calories
21kcal
Protein
0.9g
Carbs
3.9g
Fat
0.6g

Reference values for the specific food form shown. Other varieties, brands and preparations can differ.

Portions & preparation

Use the specific red chiles, vegetables, herbs, and preparation represented by the salsa. Fresh, roasted, cooked, fermented, strained, and bottled versions differ, as do added salt, oil, sugar, or broth. Assess the salsa separately from chips, tacos, meat, or other foods served with it.

Compare the right form: Match references to the exact red chile salsa recipe or brand and its fresh, cooked, fermented, or bottled form; accompaniments are separate.

Diet considerations

Red chile salsa is usually a plant-based sauce, but the category alone does not establish its recipe. Check for animal stock, lard, dairy, seafood, or other additions. Compatibility also changes with chips, tortillas, bread, or battered foods, and a salsa served with meat or cheese is not equivalent to plain salsa.

AI-authored reading notes · Awaiting editorial review. Measured values, where available, have a separate source above.

Dietary compatibility

  • Vegan
    Not established
  • Vegetarian
    Not established
  • Pescatarian
    Not established
  • Keto
    Not established
  • Paleo
    Not established
  • Low-carb
    Not established
  • Halal
    Not established
  • Kosher
    Not established
What these diet assessments mean
Vegan · Not established
The recorded ingredients may fit this pattern. This is not a complete recipe or manufacturing specification; check additions and preparation.
Vegetarian · Not established
The recorded ingredients may fit this pattern. This is not a complete recipe or manufacturing specification; check additions and preparation.
Pescatarian · Not established
The recorded ingredients may fit this pattern. This is not a complete recipe or manufacturing specification; check additions and preparation.
Keto · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Paleo · Not established
The ingredient form and processing have not been assessed against this dietary pattern.
Low-carb · Not established
A defined serving and sourced carbohydrate data are needed before assessing this dietary pattern.
Halal · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish halal status.
Kosher · Not established
Sourcing, processing and any applicable certification have not been verified. A food name alone does not establish kosher status.

For the plain ingredient · Awaiting review. Diet compatibility is not allergy suitability or halal/kosher certification. Keto and low-carb depend on the portion.

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Sources & review

Nutrition reference: USDA FoodData Central — Sauce, peppers, hot, chili, mature red, canned ↗. Values are scaled from 100 g of the recorded edible form. Individual portions have no assumed fixed weight.

Expanded overview, name examples and nutrition notes are database drafts awaiting editorial review. Numeric nutrition values, where shown, have their own source and food-form reference.

The ingredient description and dish connections come from the draft catalogue and may change after review.

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