About Us
The Road to Sagrado Chile
Here in New Mexico the late summer and fall is alive with the amazing aroma of roasting New Mexico Hatch Chiles. Traditionally, New Mexicans
buy a 25 pound burlap sack of freshly picked chile peppers and have them roasted over a blast of flames in a tumbling bin. Then we take the steaming hot beauties home to remove the skins and seeds, portion them, then load up the freezer.
We savor the crackling of the chile skins, the pops and hissing mixed with the roar of the flame jets – and the aroma! It’s so wonderful that the State
of New Mexico has designated the “smell of roasting New Mexico chiles” as the Official State Aroma!
In September, 2019 we were about to do our annual chile roast, prep and freeze drill. And I got lazy. I didn’t want to do the work and didn’t want to fill up our freezer for several months with frozen chile. So, I went online looking for freeze dried Hatch Chile.
I looked…and looked. Nothing. I called the New Mexico Dept of Agriculture. They said nobody was freeze drying Hatch Chile to their knowledge. I
called an author who had written several books about chiles. He had never heard of freeze drying Hatch chiles..
And so, I thought “somebody should be doing this”. And now, nearly 7 years and an international gold award recognition later, Sagrado Chile is
bringing freeze dried Hatch chile, tamales and other freeze dried foods to the world. Our products have been enjoyed from British Columbia Canada to Cape Town South Africa, Taiwan to Mexico and Italy to Columbia South America – 5 continents!
Our Focus
Nearly all companies that make freeze dried foods and meals are focused on either backpackers or emergency preparation supplies and rations.
We are focused on our friends who prefer to experience the outdoors and road trips with RVs and car camping. Our offerings are focused on convenience, quick and easy prep, and of course, tasty foods.
We take popular national brand foods that everyone is familiar with and combine them with our freeze dried ingredients to help you create meal kits that fit your style.
RVs and campers are always limited in storage space, have very little refrigeration facilities and are always thinking about water availability and use.
We provide foods that keep these important things in mind, with low water requirements, no refrigeration needed and portioned so that you don’t have lots of leftovers to deal with. Most of our meals and combo kits come together in 15 minutes or less and require only water.
We appreciate you visiting Sagrado Chile today and hope that you will help spread the word about our family-owned company.
