Chilli Varieties

Chilli Variety – Guizhou Longhorn Chilli

by Hot Juan on December 20, 2011 · 0 comments

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Another unusual Chilli variety from ChilliPepperPete, this one is another of their collection of Chinese Chillies. The Guizhou Longhorn is one of the longest chillies we have seen and could rival the Joe’s Long as the world longest chilli. It’s I mild chilli with a thin skin and deep red colour, once rehydrated it has a good flavour reminding me of a mild cayenne/paprika cross.

ChilliPepperPete - Guizhou Longhorn Chilli

ChilliPepperPete - Guizhou Longhorn Chilli

This chilli comes from the province of Guizhou which is one of China’s poorest areas, it is adjacent to  the better know Sichuan Province  in the eastern part of Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau in southwest China, an area that has yet to make it self know in culinary terms to the west.

Here is a simple but excellent recipe I saw demonstrated by Jenny/John Coupland at the Brighton Chilli Festival, I do recommend you look out their Sichuan , they make the rubbish we get in the supermarkets look very poor in comparison.

Smoky Cabbage Recipe

Heat oil in a wok, until smoking hot, through in the pepers until almost black. Remove the peppers (you have flavoured the oil). Get the oil hot again and break dried chiles into the wok, including the seeds, fry for a while, but do not burn the chiles, toss in the cabbage, add salt straight away and fry for a few minutes. That’s it simple and delicious.

Chilli Pepper Pete does not yet have Guizhou Longhorn Chilli on the web site (December 2011) , but we believe they will have in the new year, but in the meantime you can pick some up if you visit their shop in Brighton.

Update: This now on the ChilliPepperPete Web site click here to jump straight to it.

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Chilli Variety – Chinese White Chilli from ChilliPepperPete

by Hot Juan on December 2, 2011 · 0 comments

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We have heard a few tales in our time….  But at the end of the summer Pete of ChilliPepperPete fame was telling us about a White Chilli he had coming in a container with some other products from China.. Well it was the end of the day and I asked him to send us some when they arrived.

ChillipepperPete - Chinese White Chilli

ChillipepperPete - Chinese White Chilli

Well here they are, and I don’t think I have ever seen a chilli like it. There is no strong distinctive smell, but when I first opened the bag, it was a little like opening a bag of currents. Heat wise this is defiantly not hot one, There is however an interesting light fragrant taste that reminds me of green tea, they can be easily eaten straight from the bag, almost as a snack.

I am going to steep a couple in warm water and see how they rehydrate (will report back the results)

They are not yet on the ChilliPepperPete web site so if you are interested in getting your hands on some, you may have to email in for more information.

While I am on the subject of web sites, the  ChilliPepperPete web site has been growing and now includes lots more products from some of the best UK artisan chilli sauce makers including:-  Bims Kitchen, Burning Desire Foods, Cambridge Chilli Farm, The Chilli Jam Man, The Chilli Pepper Co, Chilliqueen, Chinthe, Dartmoor Chilli Farm, Grim Reaper Foods, Hot Headz, Karimix, Lilys Chillies, Manjira, Mr Singh’s, Mr Vikkis, Rico Picante, Sinful Sauces, Smokey Joe Sauce Co and The Wiltshire Chilli Farm.

They have not left out some of the colony’s with products from Blairs, Cajohns, Marie Sharps, Original Australian and Pain is Good.

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Chilli Variety – The Confusing Birds Eye Chilli

by Hot Juan on May 11, 2011 · 1 comment

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Is this a "Bird Eye" Chilli

Is this a "Bird Eye" Chilli

This is one of the most common chillies available in the UK supermarkets and specialist shops, you can find it both fresh and dried, they are relatively hot at between 100,000 – 225,000 Scovile Units (SHU), but are we all taking about the same chilli, as there seems to be a lot of confusion about what they are!

In general they seem to be  about 1 – 3 cm in length and 0.5cm to 1cm in diameter, they are thin walled, packed with seeds and conical in shape, starting green and maturing to red.

Birds Eye chillies are found all over Africa and Asia, and is know by many local names such as Piri-Piri or Bird’s eye chili, Bird, African Devil, Boonie pepper, Cabe rawit (Indonesian), Cengek (Sundanese), Cengis (Banyumasan language), Cili padi (Malay), Kanthari mulagu (Malayalam), Kochchi (Sinhalese), Ladâ, Lombok rawit (Javanese), Phrik khi nu (Thai), Siling labuyo (Tagalog/Filipino), Thai dragon, Thai hot, Congo chiles, Mombassa chiles, Pequin chiles, Uganda chiles and Zanzibar chiles.

It seem that we are all confused where this chilli is a C.annuum or A.frutescens with different seed providers being evenly balanced on the subject, but we have even seen it listed at C.chinense.

For what is one of the most commonly available chillies, we are confused, it is probably lots of different variates, that look similar, a common name Piri-Piri translates in some languages to Hot-Hot while it others it has become the term for chillies.

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Chilli Variety – Facing Heaven Chillies

by Hot Juan on March 31, 2011 · 1 comment

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The Facing Heaven chilli is so named as it grows with the pods pointing towards to sky. It originated from the Sichuan province in southwest China.

The Facing Heaven Chilli

The Facing Heaven Chilli

The pods are cone shaped and grown to between 3 and 6 cm in length, and 1-2cm in diameter, they are very thin skinned and when dried they produce a nice rattle sound when shaken.

Facing Heaven Chilles are a big part of Szechuan cuisine is unlike any other Chinese cuisine we are use to it he highly flavour with Garlic and Chillies, with the Szechuan peppercorn also playing a signification part.

The pods have a bit of a citrus zing to them and are mild to medium heat so can be used in most cooking, In the UK you may find them in specialist retailers, but they are generally hard to find.

These pods where kindley provided by ChilliPepperPete and can be found on his web site, which also have stock of Szechuan peppercorns. we have a great recipe from ChillipepperPete for a Szechuan Hot Pot coming very soon.

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