What salsa is made from smoked, dried jalapeño peppers?

The salsa made from smoked, dried jalapeño peppers is salsa chipotle.

Its defining ingredient is the chipotle: a ripe red jalapeño that has been smoke-dried, traditionally over wood. The process concentrates the pepper’s flavor and adds a distinctive smoky, slightly sweet character. Salsa chipotle commonly combines these peppers with tomatoes, onions, garlic, vinegar, or other seasonings.

Chipotle is often confused with a separate pepper species, but it is actually a preparation of jalapeño. It is also frequently sold canned in adobo sauce, which is a packaged form of chipotle rather than the salsa itself. Salsa roja and salsa verde are broader sauce categories generally identified by red tomatoes or tomatillos, not by chipotle’s smoking process.

Two common Mexican chipotle varieties are morita, usually darker and more common in the United States, and meco, which is larger, paler, and more heavily smoked.