This Roasted Hatch Chile Peach Salsa Recipe is sweet, spicy, delicious and refreshing all at once. And it’s an ideal beautiful summer appetizer. Just add chips!
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Winter, spring, summer, hatch, and fall.
Some consider Hatch Chile season as important as any other season — and they fit it in so snugly between summer and fall. Don’t you think? Well, it happens to be one of my favorite food seasons — I look forward to it every summer.
What are Hatch Chiles?
- Hatch chiles are a prized New Mexican chile.
- These Southwestern chiles are grown in the Mesilla Valley, where the sunlight is intense and and the nights are cool. It’s this climate combination that creates wonderful earthy flavored, subtly sweet, delicious mild or hot Hatch chiles.
- Hatch chiles are one of the few chiles where hot and mild an be determined, even though they all look the same. They should be labeled as such in stores — if they’re not, I’d ask the produce department if they know, and if they don’t, ask them to cut into one for you. They can be very, very hot — or not at all.
When is Hatch Chile Season?
This very special season only lasts about six weeks, during August and September. So don’t waste a moment before you get them.
And this year there are more Hatch Chile Roasting dates than ever, where you can get a huge box of the chiles and have them roasted for you on the spot.
Click on the map for all of the dates and locations.
Melissa’s Produce has even created a Hatch Chile Cookbook dedicated to this one beautiful chile, celebrating its glorious season with over 150 recipes.
Oh, and check out the Hatch Chile powder! It comes in mild and hot — I use them both all the time!
All sorts of dishes can be spiced up with the Hatch Chile powder.
Omelets, breads, chili, stews, and so on.
I make this Roasted Hatch Chile Peach Salsa Recipe as many times as possible during Hatch Chile season. I love using white peaches, but yes, any peach variety will be delicious!
You can find more of my Best Hatch Chile Recipes here, and my friend Dorothy at Shockingly Delicious has a fantastic collection here.
Enjoy!
This is not a sponsored post. Melissa’s Produce sent me Hatch Chiles for recipe testing. As always, all opinions are my own.
*Makes about 3 cups.
- 1 cup roasted hatch chiles, (click here for How to Roast Peppers) seeds and stems removed and cut into a small dice
- 1 cup red onion, finely chopped
- 2 cups fresh white peaches, washed and dried, finely chopped
- 1/4 cup cilantro, washed and dried, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- salt and sugar to taste
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Combine the chiles, onion, peaches, cilantro and lime juice in a medium-sized mixing bowl. Stir gently to evenly distribute all of the ingredients.
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Season to taste with salt and (if necessary), sugar. (Here's How to Season to Taste).
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Enjoy!
I love this with the white peaches, but any peach variety would be lovely.
My favorite way to cook with peppers??? How do I pick just one???? In salsas? In eggs? Probably stuffed and grilled!
Tara, I’m with you — what’s not good with a pepper (especially roasted)? 😉
My favorite way to cook hatch chiles is plain and simple. Cook onions, tomato and garlic in pan throw in a bunch of hatch chiles and chunked cheese and Grab a hatch chile tortilla and GRUB!!! YUMMM!! I also like my chile casserole with hatch chiles, and chile verde and enchiladas OH!! AND Your shrimp recipe with hatch chiles it is DELICIOUS!! Lol can you tell Hatch Chiles excite me.
Salsa.
I love salsa on almost anything!
I love Hatch and eggs (green eggs)!
Thanks for linking to the collection of recipes!
Dorothy, I think Hatch are the perfect way to make “green eggs!”
Roasting now. I’m going to do enchilada sauce later.
I bet those will be some delicious enchiladas, Terri!
Ha! Laughing again. I just bought some hatch chiles this weekend for the first time ever. We’ve had them twice this week. Made some salsa with them Monday with fish tacos. And sauted them on Tuesday with carnitas. Yummm!
That’s awesome! So many delicious ways to use them.
I love making chile rellenos and carnitas
My dad makes the best chile rellenos ever! 🙂
If I won, I would make hatch chile cheeseburgers with the fresh chiles, chili and tacos with the dried chile powder, and as many of the recipes in the cookbook as possible!!
Karen, you are making me starving! 😉
Love enchiladas! And lots of other dishes as well.
Me too! Good luck in the giveaway. 🙂
One of my favorite ways to cook with peppers is to add them to jams. The sweetness and the heat complementing each other is so much fun to play with. I also love to do the sweet heat in desserts and to use peppers in unusual ways in dishes you wouldn’t expect. But the best thing to hear is when someone says they ate a whole jar of a type of jam flavor that they normally don’t like, such as peach, that you made but made it with some heat from a pepper like a bit of habanero.
Frances, I would be in love with your jam — I know it. I just adore a sweet and spicy mix.
OK, now I won’t rest until I grab some Hatch chiles — this salsa has my name all over it!
I hope you got some chiles so you can rest. 😉 Otherwise, lots of luck in this giveaway!
I love using peppers most when I’m making fajitas!
There can’t be a fajita without a good pepper. Hatch would be ideal!
I love Hatch chiles in anything – but especially in naturally mild foods like potatoes and eggs where they truly shine and elevate all the flavors! This would be SO fun to win! 🙂
Jane, I love them in mild foods, too — especially these breakfast foods! 🙂
I love my Hatch chile cookbook – <3 thanks!!! Our chile festival is this Sunday and I am so excited!
David, have so much fun at the festival!!
I LOVE fried peppers, including Hatch. Then I just throw them in between two slices of freshly baked homemade bread and lunch is served! YUM!
Christina — I love this idea. I’m trying it asap. xo
I just roasted some hatch chilies this morning. I am creating something with butternut squash. It is still formulating in my mind. Your salsa looks refreshing.
Cathy, I bet the Hatch with the sweet squash is perfect. I love it.
I like to roast those bad boys and make a sauce for carnitas
They are bad boys, aren’t they? 😉
i love making a sort of salsa with them, that i put in all my food!
Salsa is a staple in our house, too. 🙂
I love to make roasted chile soup…
Sounds like the perfect comfort food. 🙂
I brought back some frozen home-roasted Hatch chiles from Santa Fe last Christmas and made some of the best chicken enchiladas with them. Yum!
Sounds delicious, Ann. I love Mexican food during the holidays!
Salsa would be # 1 but Chili Verde would have to be #2
It’s a tie for me. 😉
I love roasting peppers and having them with potatoes
Barbara, I LOVE them with potatoes. A potato-pepper breakfast. Yum!
I like to make chile rellenos; also I use them in chile and enchiladas
Delicious!
Our local Fresh Market was showcasing Hatch Chile’s last weekend, it was great as I had never heard of them before. I love making Pineapple salsa with chile’s, tomato and cilantro.
Sounds delicious, Samantha. I love sweet & spicy.