100g - Fresh Produce
Product Code: SP07
Price: £1.85
Note: The cut off date for placing your fresh products order will be Wednesday, with delivery scheduled for the following Wednesday. This is because all our fresh food in flown in directly from Thailand on a weekly basis to ensure you get the freshest possible products.
Dried Chillies/Peppers (100g)
Thai Name: พริกไทแห้ง
A term that is used to refer to a group of spices used for seasonings or a group of vegetables that may be sweet, bland or spicy. In this case they refer to chilli peppers, that are long and narrow-shaped. The chilli peppers are often used fresh for seasoning various food dishes, condiments and sauces, but are also a very common ingredient for use as a spice in a dried form, such as pepper flakes, ground chilli pepper, or dried whole peppers.
The chilli is such a hallmark of regional cuisines that it is surprising to reflect that it was unknown in tropical Asia until it was introduced by the Portuguese in the 16th and early 17th centuries. Prior to its availability, pepper was used to provide the pungency or ‘heat’ of regional food.
The chilli is found in a bewildering variety of colours, sizes and flavours in different parts of the world. There are two dozen varieties encountered in South-east Asia, including finger length chillies in red and green; medium-length plump chillies which can be yellow, pale creamy white, orange, green or red; tiny bird’s-eye or, as the Thais call them in an accurate description of their size, 'rat droppings' chillies.
The most common chilli is perhaps the finger-length chilli of medium intensity on the ‘heat’ scale. This is sold green (unripe), red (ripe) and dried. The flavour and fragrance of green and red chillies differs slightly, and where one particular type is specified in a recipe, this should be used.
Botanical name: Capsicum SPP.
Fresh produce of Thailand.
