Chipotle Pepper, Tomato Purée, Vinegar, Salt, Sugar, Spices

Puréed canned chipotle in adobo is a complex food ingredient made from smoke-dried jalapeño peppers rehydrated and packed in a tangy tomato-vinegar sauce with aromatics. The chipotle peppers themselves are jalapeños that have been wood-smoked (traditionally over mesquite or pecan), giving this ingredient its distinctive layered character: earthy smoke, moderate capsaicin heat (roughly 5,000–10,000 SHU), and the umami-rich, slightly sweet backbone of the adobo sauce. Formulators working in culinary applications choose this ingredient over liquid smoke or chili powder because it delivers simultaneous smokiness, acidity, heat, and depth in a single component, with commercial-grade purées from suppliers like La Costeña offering consistent pH below 4.0 and batch-to-batch flavor stability.