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
Cortez Farmers Market 2026
Pueblo Chile and Frijoles Festival 2026
AREA STORES
Our jars of medium flame-roasted green and red chile sauces, made with local organic chile and garlic, are available at Zuma Natural Foods (Mancos), Dolores Food Market (Dolores), and Pueblo Seed & Food Company (Cortez). Take home the flavors of the Four Corners for your juevos rancheros, enchiladas, or tortilla burgers!
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
AMAZING, BEST-EVER FLAME ROASTED GREEN CHILI!
I was fortunate enough to get to try Canyon Chili’s FLAME ROASTED GIADONE GREEN CHILI SAUCE (Hot) during a visit to Telluride. My friend bought some at the farmer’s market and we all gobbled it up over breakfast with eggs. Back home, I woke up the next day craving it, so I texted my friend who bought it and asked her to send me a photo of the label– then I searched for this website to learn how to buy it. THAT’s how good it is: I CRAVED it the next day and RESEARCHED where to find it! I see on the website that it will soon be shippable. Sign me up. I will be a loyal, regular customer. Can’t wait!
Gluten Free
I bake gluten free casseroles for the freezer as well as breads. Canyon Chile sauce is a great addition not only as a topping sauce but as an ingredient in most GF dishes to liven them up. The latest success was a Mexican Cornbread including whole corn, cheeses and mild green chili sauce. Celiac disease is not always easy. This is a help in keeping foods tasty and healthy.
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.
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