Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cultivar of the tropical pepper Capsicum annuum, having a mild or fairly pungent dark green, thick-skinned fruit used in cooking.
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- noun A mild green
chile pepper originating inMexico
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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While passing the rows of restaurants surrounding downtown Puebla's Parian crafts market, one cannot help but notice that every one of the many display bowls of mole poblano is adorned with a liberal sprinkling of sesame seeds.
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While passing the rows of restaurants surrounding downtown Puebla's Parian crafts market, one cannot help but notice that every one of the many display bowls of mole poblano is adorned with a liberal sprinkling of sesame seeds.
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It's important to remove the skin because the cooked skin of the chile poblano is usually quite tough, unpleasant to eat and hard to digest.
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Or in the Oak Park Whole Foods, which carries ancho peppers helpfully labeled "Ancho Pasilla Peppers," because somebody or other also calls poblano peppers "pasillas."
Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008
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Nate "poblano" Silver nailed it in his LAT article
Flashback: McCain Said We're Better Off Than We Were Eight Years Ago 2009
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On the road to becoming an authentic "poblano": Mexico Travel
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On the road to becoming an authentic "poblano": Mexico Travel
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I'd revise Papirex's statement to this: if it doesn't contain chocolate, it isn't mole poblano.
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Mole poblano -- arguably the best known mole -- contains chocolate, but, as Anónimo pointed out, many moles don't.
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Looks like I might have a few mariachi and fresno peppers after all, and possibly some ancho poblano.
john commented on the word poblano
"When the results finally rolled in—1 in Indiana, 15 in North Carolina—Poblano had outperformed every established pollster. Clinton never recovered, but with the National Journal, the Guardian and the New York Post suddenly dissecting or demanding the secrets of his success, Poblano became an Internet sensation."
The New York Times, Making His Pitches, by Andrew Romano, June 16, 2008
September 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word poblano
I'm surprised nobody's listed this. No list of chili peppers?
September 9, 2008
yarb commented on the word poblano
Hang on - poblano pepper was listed by rduke on their chili pepper list.
September 9, 2008