pasilla
Noun
Meaning
pasilla (plural pasillas)
A variety of chili (a dried chilaca), used especially in sauces.
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Examples
I was also communing with the house special, the gooey cheesesteak (oh jeez, what is up with all the cheesesteaks in my life this week?) with pasilla peppers in a homemade flatbread, with onion and cheese ($6.50).
Stone Xocoveza is a mocha stout that is every bit as delicious as the drink it’s modeled after thanks to its blend of cocoa, coffee, pasilla peppers, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
That is 18 ounces of prime rib eye steak given a dry rub of coffee, brown sugar, salt, garlic, cumin and chipotle and pasilla chilies, seared in a cast iron skillet and served with black beans and rice and crispy Vidalia onions.
There are also several frozen shortbread flavors -- cocoa nib and sweet pasilla (dried chilaca pepper), vanilla lavender, salty walnut or Tahitian vanilla -- for $12 a pop (makes about 30-35 cookies).
I checked on the Internet and real pasilla peppers are skinny.
Not a pasilla in sight, actually.