Hell Fire Detroit Manzana Hot Sauce

The Manzana chile pepper, also known as Rocoto, Manzano and Peron, is a rare type of chile pepper. In Spanish, Manzana translates to mean apple, a nod to the pepper’s apple like shape. Unlike most chiles cultivated in Mexico, the Manzana chile is not a part of the common botanical family of Capsicum annuum but rather a part of Capsicum pubescens, a species of pepper from the Andes region. This species of peppers is unique in the fact that the leaves of the pepper plant are covered in fine hairs and the seeds of the peppers are black in color.