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The Fresh Chile Company

Hatch Chile Recipe Cookbook - 2021

4.4/5 (43)
$14.95USD
In Stock

The Hatch Chile Recipe Cookbook - 2021 is a customer-curated recipe book published by The Fresh Chile Company, compiling dishes that feature Hatch chiles. It includes recipes shared by over 20,000 members of the Fresh Chile Cookin' Facebook group, with an introduction telling the company's family history, and is offered in physical and ebook formats. The cookbook holds a 4.4 out of 5-star rating from 43 verified reviews, which describe the recipes as clear, easy to follow, and highly recommended.

Category
Media > Books > Print Books
MPN
fcc-cookbook

Specifications

Fresh Chile's first cookbook, featuring Hatch chile recipes shared by the Fresh Chile Cookin' Facebook community. Dedicated to the customers who contributed their creations and inspired by the family's traditional recipes.

Includes recipes from members of the Fresh Chile Cookin' Facebook group, a community of over 20,000 Hatch chile enthusiasts. Available in physical and ebook formats.

Gender
unisex
Condition
new
Weight
6 oz
Category
Media > Books > Print Books

Additional Attributes

  • 2021 edition
  • physical book
  • ebook
  • first cookbook from Fresh Chile
  • recipes from Fresh Chile Cookin' Facebook community
  • dedicated to Fresh Chile customers
  • featured in Cowboy Kent Rollins' cooking video

Product Insights

This cookbook packages 52 Hatch chile recipes, all direct submissions from a 20,000-member Facebook group run by a fifth-generation Las Cruces farming family, into a $14.95 print edition that sits well below the $29.95 UNM Press reference. The chiles themselves are medium-heat (1,000–8,000 SHU) with a sweeter, earthier, more mineral taste than generic Anaheims, and the book treats green and red as ripeness stages of the same pod, covering enchiladas, posole, smothered dishes, and more. Recipes assume Hatch Valley chiles (fresh late July through early October), but frozen roasted chiles, jarred sauces, or Anaheims keep them usable year-round, and homemade chile puree can stand in for prepared sauces. The community-submitted recipes are not test-kitchen verified, yet buyers find them easy to follow and repeat-worthy, making the compact, gift-ready volume a hit with Hatch-chile lovers—though it lacks a spiral binding, is smaller than expected, and its 52 recipes are far fewer than the 300+ in rival books.

Verified claims

Recipe origins
All 52 recipes are customer submissions from the Fresh Chile Cookin' Facebook group.
Recipe testing
Recipes were not professionally tested before publication; home-cook results can vary across kitchens.
Ingredient requirements
Several recipes call for a prepared Fresh Chile sauce or salsa; homemade chile puree works as a swap.
Value
Priced at $14.95, about half the $29.95 UNM Press Hatch reference.
Founding story
The brand was launched by a fifth-generation Las Cruces farmer's 800-jar Christmas shipment.
Recipe origin
Signature salsa began with an accidental red-pod roast about 35 years ago.
Recipe sourcing
Recipes are community-submitted from a 20,000-member Facebook group, not test-kitchen tested.
Hatch terroir
Hatch Valley chiles taste sweeter, earthier and more mineral than generic Anaheims
Heat
Hatch chiles run a medium 1,000–8,000 SHU heat, prioritizing flavor over fire
Seasonal sourcing
Fresh Hatch peaks July–October; frozen, jarred or dried chile keeps this book usable year-round
Provenance
Recipes come from a fifth-generation Las Cruces chile-farming family's 20,000-member home-cook group
Red vs green
Green and red Hatch are the same chile; green is bright and vegetal, red is sweet and earthy.
Seasonality
Fresh-chile recipes follow the Hatch harvest, late July through early October.
Substitutions
Off-season, recipes adapt with Anaheim peppers, frozen roasted Hatch, or jarred Hatch sauces.
Flavor authenticity
Recipes assume Hatch Valley chiles; generic canned chiles cook up flatter.
Harvest window
Fresh green Hatch chiles run late July to early October; red runs September to October.
Year-round options
Frozen roasted chiles hold 12+ months and jarred sauces let some recipes skip the harvest calendar.
Recipe lineup
52 customer-submitted Hatch chile recipes, from tacos to salsas, in Hatch's 1,000–8,000 SHU band.
Ease of use
Buyers report recipes are easy to understand and put together.
Ingredient access
Recipes work with fresh, frozen, or jarred chiles; Anaheims substitute out of season.
Print format
Only the print edition can sit by the stove; digital is an e-book; a $19.95 spiral-bound edition lays flat.
Usability
Recipes come from a New Mexico family's 20,000-member community and buyers call them easy to follow.
Ingredient availability
Fresh Hatch season is late July–early October; frozen roasted chile keeps recipes usable year-round.
Authority
Recipes are direct community submissions from a 20,000-member group, not test-kitchen tested.
New Mexico identity
Fifth-generation Las Cruces farming family behind recipes that began as Sunday chile sauce dinners.
Recipe community
All 52 recipes are direct submissions from the 20,000-member Fresh Chile Cookin' Facebook group.
Chile character
Hatch green and red are ripeness stages of one chile in the 1,000–8,000 SHU heat range.
Cultivar
Hatch's Big Jim and Sandía are large and meaty; the Lumbre is hotter
Recipe flexibility
Community-submitted recipes let you swap in your own chile puree
Gift fit
Buyers report Hatch-chile and Mexican-food lovers delight in this book and find recipes easy to follow.
Gift price
$14.95 — $15 below the UNM Press Big Book and $5 below the spiral classic.
Ingredient flexibility
Recipes work with fresh or roasted Hatch chiles, and a homemade chile puree stands in for the prepared sauces.

Product record

Title
Hatch Chile Recipe Cookbook - 2021
Brand
The Fresh Chile Company
Price
$14.95 USD
Availability
In stock
Rating
4.4 stars, 43 reviews, scale 5

Buying Guide

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Uses

Find and cook Hatch chile recipes

Find and make Hatch chile dishes at home. Use the cookbook for weeknight Mexican cooking, familiar New Mexico-style recipes, and favorites to make again and again.[1]

Gift for a Hatch chile or Mexican food fan

Give it as a gift to a Hatch chile or Mexican food lover.[1]

Image Analysis

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Front cover of a cookbook showing a distressed red panel with a circular logo at the top, a large yellow title, and a centered food photograph of a plate with tacos and sides.

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A book cover shown face-on with a distressed solid-color background, a central circular photo cutout of two people inside a decorative yellow frame, and multiple white text lines arranged vertically.

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Single interior cookbook page photographed flat; white page with red headline, a multi-paragraph dedication block of black body text, a photo of hands holding green chiles near the lower third, and a red footer bar with site name and page number.

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  • Dedication text blockThis cookbook is dedicated to the Fresh Chile customers who have created and shared a world of delicious foods with Hatch chiles. Thank you all! Fresh Chile started out when my father began making his fresh red chile sauce and “special salsa” every Sunday for dinner with whatever was being served. We all couldn’t get enough of it. In time, he shared his recipes and Carol and I began to make them and make extra for special friends and clients for the holidays. They began to ask us to make some for them to give as gifts, too. Before long the demand was so great that we started The Fresh Chile and began making a wide variety of chile products using the wonderful chiles grown in the Hatch Valley just north of Las Cruces. We created a private group called Fresh Chile Cookin’ on Facebook and began to post pictures and descriptions of what our customers were doing with our products. We now over 20,000 members in that private group who love Hatch chile and Fresh Chile products and happily share their creations! We know you love Hatch chile as much as we do and you’ll have as much chile fun as we have with this first cookbook. Thank you all y muchas gracias!
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Customer Reviews

43 total
4.4

43 reviews · out of 5

Penny

Book has exciting recipes. I don’t know which one i want to try first.

Great book with some really good recipes

Gregory L Wheeler

Great book with some really good recipes.

Carolyn

Haven’t been able to use this yet but cant wait to make all these recipes.

Carol

I loved it! If you love Mexican, you need this cookbook! Unique recipes!

Hatch Chile Recipe Cookbook

George Dunn

Excellent recipes, easy to understand and put together. Highly recommended.

Cookbook

David Finney

My wife loved it and saw several tesipes that she wants to try. Also great customer service as always.

Hatch Chile Recipe Cookbook

Cheri Haberle

I have been looking for a good recipe cookbook that has my favorites in it. I can't wait to make so many things in here.

Wonderful Recipes

Lisa (Bella) Dillon

Having family from New Mexico i really enjoyed having some familiar recipes. Easy to follow

Sherrie

Thought it would be a bit bigger for the money but it looks like it has some great recipes.

Home cook

Jeffrey Orr

Very good cook book with use it over and over

Greg

Easy to use

Umm, umm.

Vern DeRosier

Found so many ways to enjoy the great taste I and my family never thought of. Highly recommend. Most recipes are so easy to follow.

Chile cookbook

Jamie Wilson

Delicious

FCC COOKBOOK

Ken Ricci

Very well laid out and one of the best parts, well besides the great pictures, is the fact that the customer submitted recipes are there in all their glory. Very easy to follow along but keep a drool rag handy!

The best

Shelly Sides

The best ever

Hot hot hot

Carlene Crnkovich

Lots of new and tasty recipes

Cannot make a review did not receive the cookbook

Rosa Teran

I did not receive the cookbook with my order. Maybe I thought it would come separately. Cannot make a review.

Recipe book

mark emmert

Can't wait to try some of these outstanding recipes.

Fresh Chile Cookbook

Carlene Henderson

What a great little cookbook! It's time for a volume 2.

Cook Book 📖

Mildred Edmonds

Great 👍

Great book

Dale Bateman

Very nice recipes and very good tastings

Awesone

Pamela Glynn

I really like it. Going to try all sorts of recipes.

Chile Cookbook

Dee Jovanelly

I sent one to myself and my mom. We love it, I just wish zi could’ve added a note for hers, because it didn’t say who it was from. She knew, but……..

Great Book

Michael Saydah

Concise, easy to read and already in use at my neighborhood Cul-de-sac weekly dinners.

Great title of book!

Laura Simpson

I really like this little cookbook but the problem it is it is a very small cookbook for the price. I was expecting some thing larger. I will definitely make some of the recipes for sure! I’m hoping your products are going to be stocked again at Natural Grocers as it looks like they were out of all your products this weekend when I was shopping there.

Cookbook

Brenda Brown

Very nicely done, and my recipe is in there!

great recipes

Jody Peters

Great recipes to use great products.

I was expecting variety of new recipes. Most of these have been covered before.

Dennis Hilligoss

I really appreciate your company’s honesty and great products. I would not recommend the cookbook. All your other products get a 👍👍👍!

Very disappointed

Del Zimmerman

First of all, I was expecting more recipes. Secondly, I assumed for the price I was paying it was going to be a hardback. That was my fault, I guess I didn't research it as I should have. All in all, again, taking into account the price, I was disappointed.

Fresh Chili Cookbook

Judy Gebhart

Excellent recipes. Outstanding presentation. Love it!

Cook book

Tammy Lee

I wasn’t impressed with the cook book wish there was more main course dishes and maybe some ideas using crock pot or air fryer or like 1 dish meals. Just more basic ideas is all

Experience was great

Tami Creese

Like all te recipes in the cookbook. Are already deciding on what ones to make first.

Cookbook

Anthony Alvey

Browsed through it. Will try recipes when I get the chance. Some look really really good.

Excellent

suzanne durrant

I will be trying several of the recipes.

Nothing really exciting

Patrick Russell

We have tried several recipes. Not much new or exciting. Most are traditional NM recipes

Great food

Sabine E Swallow

I have been waiting for this cookbook for a LONG time. I probably have all the sauces and spices needed and then some. Will cook something soon. It looks great. ❤️

Perfect ! !

gary robinson

Nice cookbook, make use of many of your products. If it wasn't for shipping cost I would have one of everything you sell ! !

Never received

Edward Ramsey

I would love to evaluate this cookbook, but I have still not received it! I received all the rest of the order, but no cookbook. I also received the email giving the cookbook discount code and have in fact used it on a subsequent order but still have not received the cookbook itself. Please send me the darn cookbook!

BEST PRODUCTS

Patty Ralph

I purchased a salsa pack of 3 jars. I shared with our neighbors and all of us loved them. I’m originally from New Mexico and the salsa brought back great memories.

Cookbook

Shawna Ruff

Recipes are amazing ! Good job in putting this together. Very well done.

I still have not received the hard copy of the cookbook I paid for.

Jeff Riha

Placed my order for the cookbook along with some jars of chiles in late February. Upon opening the book, I noticed the physical copy of the cookbook was not included. Note: There was nothing in the shipment to indicate the book was missing/forthcoming. I contacted them and they promptly responded that the cookbook would be coming. I have not received any updates since. It has been another couple of weeks since I inquired. Very poor approach to updating the customer on the status.

The Fresh Chile Company

Randy Faulkner Faulkner

Good service

Still waiting

John Hawkins

I received the spices and mustard, but not the cookbook.......So, the review is for the spices and mustard , once I see the book it will probably be much higher

Provenance

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https://freshchileco.com/products/fresh-chile-cookin-recipe-cookbook-physical
Platform
shopify
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