What Serrano means
Serrano is a Mexican ingredient name of Spanish origin meaning "of the mountains". It is built from Spanish sierra (mountain range) and -ano (belonging to). It is pronounced seh-RAH-noh, and it is most associated with Puebla.
Named for the sierras of Puebla and Hidalgo where it was first grown, not for any quality of the chile itself.
This is a site about what Mexican words mean, so there is no recipe here. For the name itself: The words that appear inside dish names: the chiles (ancho, guajillo, pasilla, chipotle), the corn words (nixtamal, masa, tortilla, elote), and the tools (comal, molcajete, metate). Learn these and most menu items decode themselves.
