ABOUT
WHAT WE DO
We handcraft and sell delicious green and red chile sauces to customers looking for convenience, quality, and healthy options when preparing Mexican and Southwestern dishes.
OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS
We make our green chile sauces with flame-roasted, diced chile peppers, chopped onions, garlic, and spices. These sauces are available in mild, medium, and hot heat levels. Colorado heirloom Mirasol Pueblo and Giadone chile peppers flavor the medium and hot sauces. The mild sauce is made with NuMex Joe E. Parker chiles grown in Colorado. Every 16-ounce jar of green chile sauce brings the fragrances and flavors of Colorado and New Mexico to enchiladas, burritos, chile rellenos, roasted pork or chicken, stews, hamburgers, sandwiches, or stir into potato, pasta, and egg dishes.
Our red sauces are made with Mirasol Pueblo or Giadone chile peppers, pureed with onions, garlic, and spices. The red chile sauces have medium and hot heat levels. Every 16-ounce jar of red chile sauce brings a sweet and smokey chile flavor to dishes like carne adovada, enchiladas, burritos, meatloaf, chile con carne, beans, stew, and posole.
WHAT MAKES CANYON CHILE SAUCE UNIQUE
We make our sauces with locally sourced, fresh, and healthy ingredients. We use certified organic chile grown, selected, harvested, and flame-roasted locally by Pueblo Seed & Food Company, Cortez, Colorado. Canyon Chile flash-freezes the chiles on the same day they are picked and roasted to preserve the chile’s natural flavor and nutrients.
Our sauces meet consumers’ gluten-free and vegan dietary preferences, filling a growing market niche where few gluten-free or vegan options exist. Our green and red sauce recipes are water-based and are made with gluten-free or no thickeners.
Our sauces blend the flavors of flame-roasted Colorado chiles with the distinct flavors of the Spanish Colonial and Pueblo Indian traditional cuisines of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico.
Canyon Chile is a woman-owned limited liability company and a member of Colorado Proud.
SHOP
EVENTS/CALENDAR
Telluride Farmers’ Market 2025
Every Friday from May 30 to October 10
10:30 am to 3:30 pm
Look for the Pueblo Seed & Food and Canyon Chile booth
AREA STORES
Canyon Chile is thrilled to announce that we have received a Business Builder grant through the Northwest and Rocky Mountain USDA Regional Food Business Center to create shelf-stable jars of our signature green Pueblo and red Pueblo chile sauces. We are hopeful that starting this fall, you will be able to find these jars with our new labels stocked in Cortez, Mancos, and Dolores stores. Stay tuned for more details!
ONLINE STORE
Our sauces will be available online. Keep checking this page.
NEWS
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
COLORADO CHILES
Pueblo, Colorado, is the home of the Mirasol Mosco chile, better known as Pueblo chile. Unlike many other peppers, the Pueblo chile grows to point up towards the sun instead of hanging down. Mirasol means to look at the sun in Spanish. Colorado’s sunny, hot days, cool nights, dry climate altitude, and abundant water supply are ideal for giving the chile its hot, bold flavor, spice, and thicker skin.
The Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) Scale, named for scientist Wilbur Scoville in 1912, measures the heat level of most Hot Sauce Production industry products. Heat level is the amount of capsaicin (the chemical compound found in peppers that produces a burning sensation when consumed by humans) in a product. The average Pueblo chile measures approximately 5,000 SHUs, and the Giadone chiles measure approximately 10,000 to 12,000 SHUs. To compare, the heat level of an average jalapeño pepper ranges between 2,000 and 8,000 SHUs.
Pueblo, Colorado, is the home of the Mirasol Mosco chile, better known as Pueblo chile. Unlike many other peppers, the Pueblo chile grows to point up towards the sun instead of hanging down. Mirasol means to look at the sun in Spanish. Colorado’s sunny, hot days, cool nights, dry climate altitude, and abundant water supply are ideal for giving the chile its hot, bold flavor, spice, and thicker skin.
The Scoville Heat Unit (SHU) Scale, named for scientist Wilbur Scoville in 1912, measures the heat level of most Hot Sauce Production industry products. Heat level is the amount of capsaicin (the chemical compound found in peppers that produces a burning sensation when consumed by humans) in a product. The average Pueblo chile measures approximately 5,000 SHUs, and the Giadone chiles measure approximately 10,000 to 12,000 SHUs. To compare, the heat level of an average jalapeño pepper ranges between 2,000 and 8,000 SHUs.
Customer Feedback
It reminds me of home
I am from New Mexico, and I have missed my green and red chile. Canyon Chile makes the great flavors of home for me.
Impressive!
I originally used it as a sauce, heating it up to smother EVERYTHING.
But I discovered out of laziness that it’s just as good cold. I use it as a dip.
I’m hooked.
Gluten Free Salsa!
My favorite is the Red Chili salsa. So delicate and delicious. It makes me extra happy because it is gluten free! Being a Celiac makes choices difficult and Sharon has solved that too. Thanks Sharon.
Super, tasty South West flavors
Great on eggs and potatoes especially.
We made the best frijoles I’ve ever had with this sauce.
Flavor and spice is just right.
Most Favorful Time Saver
We generally cook from scratch so when I find a product that has done that for me it seems like a gift. I’m not gluten sensitive but I really like the lack of thickeners. Just makes the flavor even fresher tasting.
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