Pepper or peppercorns are vines grown for their fruit. Fruit pepperfresh and ripe, about 5 mm in diameter. It is dark red in color and has one seed. The fruit is used as a spice. From fruitpepper the same can produce different colors pepper with different flavors.
Pepper It has been used since time immemorial, both as a spice and as a traditional medicine. Pepper It is one of the most common spices added to cuisines around the world. Pepper It is also the most traded spice in the world. Pepper It has a spicy, warm, and slightly bitter sensation.
Spicy on pepperdifferent from spicy in chili. Spicy onpepperderived from piperine . While the spicy in chili comes from capsaicin . We know two kinds pepper, that is pepper white and pepper black. Turns out, kind of pepperit’s not two kinds. But more diverse, more colorful.
Black pepper
Black pepper is black pepper with wrinkled skin. Black pepper is usually used whole round. For example in sticks with black pepper sauce seasoning. Black pepper is produced from peppers that are still green and unripe.
The grains of pepper are boiled briefly. The purpose, in addition to cleaning, is also to break the cell walls in pepper. The pepper grains are then dried for several days in the sun or by machine. Pepper grains that have dried, the skin shrinks into wrinkles. The color turns dark.
In some plantations, to make black pepper, the fruit that has been separated from the stem is dried in the sun without being boiled first.
White pepper
White pepper comes from ripe peppers. The peppers are soaked in water for about a week. The goal is that the pepper flesh becomes soft and easily decomposed. Then the pepper is rubbed, so that the pepper seeds are clean from the flesh. The fleshless baiji is then dried in the sun to dry, white and smooth.
White pepper is usually used in soups, stews, stir-fries, and other dishes. White pepper is used in powder form.
Pepper Green
Same as pepper black, pepper green is pepperthe green ones, the unripe ones. The difference is fruitpepper it is not dried, but rather left fresh. To keep it fresh pepperfrozen green. Or preserved by soaking in salt water or vinegar. Like pickles. Many people don’t know pepper green. Pepper Green is widely used in cooking, especially in Thailand. Let’s try Sichuan peppercorns.