Salsa de Chile Pasado

Name: Salsa de Chile Pasado
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about 5 cups (1200 ml)
Cuisine: Latin
Ingredients: about 4½ tomatoes (650 g) Tomato; 300 g Tomatillo; about 2½ onions (300 g) Onion; 1.5 cloves garlic Garlic; about 30 chiles (60 g) Dried Chile; about 30 chiles (60 g) Dried Chile; about 1 tsp (3 g) Cumin; about ¼ bunch (1.5 g) Oregano

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Jorge Vallejo recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Jorge Vallejo.

TABLE SALSA · ROAST DUCK & GRILLED MEATS

In the published recipe, this is the table salsa for pato laqueado.

Vallejo's chile pasado salsa for roast duck.

On the jar

SALSA

Method: stove
Yield: about 5 cups
Ingredients: 8

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ingredients

Tomatoabout 4½ tomatoes (650 g)
Tomatillo300 g
Onionabout 2½ onions (300 g)
Garlic1.5 cloves garlic
Dried Chileabout 30 chiles (60 g)
Dried Chileabout 30 chiles (60 g)
Cuminabout 1 tsp (3 g)
Oreganoabout ¼ bunch (1.5 g)

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Jorge Vallejo — published sauce recipes in the PantryFlex catalog. Michelin 2* (Quintonil, CDMX); Latin America's 50 Best #7 (2025).

Adapted from a Jorge Vallejo recipe (Jorge Vallejo / Gastrolab (pato laqueado; Quintonil)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Jorge Vallejo / Gastrolab (pato laqueado; Quintonil) (published as “Salsa de Chile Pasado”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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