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What type of green chilies is this?   I'm not sure what to buy in the US.  Here in California, peppers are never labeled just green chilies or red chilies.    Is it like Anaheims (mild)?  Or hotter ones like Jalapenos or serranos? 

Hi Rinshin, I'm pretty sure it's the ones in picture 5 here: http://www.goodfood.com....-chillies-20130405-2hczq

Thank you.  I wonder what that is?  Does not look like anaheims or New Mexico Hatch.  The use of green chilies in British recipes have always been puzzling to me since I never knew what to buy.

We get these things in the supermarket labelled "green chillies" of no fixed variety. They are usually quite fleshy and a bit punchier than a jalapeno but still pretty mild.

Would you say jalapenos would be an adequate substitution?  Jalapenos are more fleshier and hotter than anaheims.  Thank you!

Thank you Bellacat!

I am a bit late to this discussion but not sure I agree on jalapeno as sub. The generic green chillis in UK supermarkets tend to be green finger chillis - I have seen milder fleshier ones on sale as 'green chillis' too but they are less common so I'd go with finger chilli if unspecified in a UK recipe.Finger chillis are fairly spicy, certainly hotter than a jalepeno. I checked on a UK supermarket site and it put them at 10,000 schoville units vs 2,500 for a jalepeno.

In the UK it is not common to find a big variety of chillis in anything but specialist stalls/shops or ethnic supermarkets but other common supermarket varieties - birds eye, scotch bonnet etc - are labelled as such.

As bellaCat says you'd use a hotter variety in a Thai recipe, even if type was not specified in the recipe. Birds eye would be a good catch all in the UK for Thai food.

The green ones in the link look like finger chillis to me.

Thank you Frenchfoodie.  I've decided that for most Southeast Asian and Indian style cooking, I'll go buy Thai bird eye chilies sold at my nearby Chinese/Asian market and for Middle eastern, I'll try the Jalapeno/serrano combo.