{"id":2238,"date":"2014-06-15T23:53:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-15T23:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2014-06-15T23:53:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T23:53:47","slug":"aji-chanca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/aji-chanca\/","title":{"rendered":"Aji Chanca"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aji Chanca is a mid heat range cultivar\u00a0of Capsicum baccatum var. Pendulum. It is\u00a0very similar to Aji Amarillo but has a more shortened bulbous form and slightly less heat. The flavour of this cultivar, like Amarillo and other versions of baccatum cultivars, is complex and\u00a0very fruity with a touch of citrus.<\/p>\n

The plants grow quite large – about 1.5m high and bear a lot of fruit through out the year in batches. The plants seem quite long lived and will keep growing and bearing if happy for quite a few years. The ones in this photo come from a plant that has been bearing profusely for at least 3 years. They generally ripen up from green to a vivid yellow in late summer into autumn.<\/p>\n

This an excellent chill for use fresh and added to dishes like salads at the last moment for the extra bite and fresh flavour.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of discussion out there about the exact identity and naming of these baccatum cultivars\u00a0and obviously a lot of localised interbreeding takes place that ends up producing a huge variation in shape, size, flavour and heat.<\/p>\n

And this is confused further by the many wild and domesticated varieties.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.thechilliman.biz\/Baccatuum%20Species.htm<\/a><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.chiliwiki.fi\/index.php?title=Capsicum_baccatum<\/a><\/p>\n

The flowers of the baccatum species group are a distinct white with green\/gold trim and at least make it easy to differentiate from other species when in flower.<\/p>\n

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Aji Chanca is a mid heat range cultivar\u00a0of Capsicum baccatum var. Pendulum. It is\u00a0very similar to Aji Amarillo but has a more shortened bulbous form and slightly less heat. The flavour of this cultivar, like […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2239,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-notes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-content\/media\/chili_aji_chanca.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2ccXI-A6","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chickenfish.cc\/bio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}