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Phot.India.South.Seafood.Crab.Pepper.01.100505.0169.jpg
India, Mumbai, Food, Crustaceans, Crab.
South Indian “Pepper Crab Masala” with aromatic crashed Malabar black peppercorns & fried curry leaves.
📍 …Curry leaves are the leaves of the up to 6 m high tropical to sub-tropical tree, a species of plant that belongs to the rue family, which includes citrus, satinwood & is native to Asia.
The curry leaves of these trees are mainly used as a spice in southern Indian & Sri Lankan cuisine. The term "curry leaf" refers to the use of the leaves in curry dishes. There is no direct connection with curry powder, but are often parts of the "curry powder" spice mix, …which is not typically Indian, but was developed by the British during the English colonial era of India. When you talk about curry in India, you mean, regardless the colour the dish & not the spiced powder.
The aroma of the curry leaves is fresh, slightly fruity to smoky. They are popular in South Indian & Sri Lankan cuisine. Since the leaves are thin, not been removed from the finished dish & eaten with them.
Due to their round, at the same time distinct aroma, they are used in many dishes as a spice alongside salt & chili. Mostly they are first fried in hot oil or ghee; clarified butter in a pan before adding the other ingredients.
📌 …Black Pepper, cooked & dried unripe drupe, in South India, Malabar, for high quality aromatic black pepper, the berries are separated from the stem by hand & then sun-dried without boiling.
Pepper oil is also used as ayurvedic massage oil, in certain beauty & herbal treatments. Pepper spirit is used in many medicinal & cosmetic products.
Green Pepper, dried unripe drupe, the peppercorns is treated in a way that retains the green colour, like sulfuretted dioxide, canning or dry-freeze. Pickled green peppercorns are unripe drupes preserved in brine or vinegar.
Red Pepper, generally consists of ripe peppercorn drupes preserved in brine & vinegar, also can be dried using the same colour-preserving techniques used to produce green pepper.
White Pepper, ripe drupes consists solely of the seed of the ripe drupe of the pepper plant, with the thin darker-coloured fleshy skin of the fruit removed accomplished by a process known as retting, where fully ripe red pepper dupes are soaked in water during 7 days, the peppercorn softens & decomposes, by rubbing the fruits the remains are removed, the cleaned seeds are dried.
Other industrial ways to remove the skin is chemical biological or mechanical methods.
White pepper lacks certain compounds present in the outer layer of the drupe, resulting in a different, less aromatic overall flavour.
Pink Peppercorns, are not really pepper, they are berries with a pepper like flavour. They are fruits of the Peruvian or Brazilian pepper tree, also growing in Columbia & Venezuela, plants from a different family as they are members of the cashew family, they may cause allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, for persons with a tree nut allergy!!!
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Phot.India.South.Seafood.Crab.Pepper.01.100505.0169.jpg
India, Mumbai, Food, Crustaceans, Crab.
South Indian “Pepper Crab Masala” with aromatic crashed Malabar black peppercorns & fried curry leaves.
📍 …Curry leaves are the leaves of the up to 6 m high tropical to sub-tropical tree, a species of plant that belongs to the rue family, which includes citrus, satinwood & is native to Asia.
The curry leaves of these trees are mainly used as a spice in southern Indian & Sri Lankan cuisine. The term "curry leaf" refers to the use of the leaves in curry dishes. There is no direct connection with curry powder, but are often parts of the "curry powder" spice mix, …which is not typically Indian, but was developed by the British during the English colonial era of India. When you talk about curry in India, you mean, regardless the colour the dish & not the spiced powder.
The aroma of the curry leaves is fresh, slightly fruity to smoky. They are popular in South Indian & Sri Lankan cuisine. Since the leaves are thin, not been removed from the finished dish & eaten with them.
Due to their round, at the same time distinct aroma, they are used in many dishes as a spice alongside salt & chili. Mostly they are first fried in hot oil or ghee; clarified butter in a pan before adding the other ingredients.
📌 …Black Pepper, cooked & dried unripe drupe, in South India, Malabar, for high quality aromatic black pepper, the berries are separated from the stem by hand & then sun-dried without boiling.
Pepper oil is also used as ayurvedic massage oil, in certain beauty & herbal treatments. Pepper spirit is used in many medicinal & cosmetic products.
Green Pepper, dried unripe drupe, the peppercorns is treated in a way that retains the green colour, like sulfuretted dioxide, canning or dry-freeze. Pickled green peppercorns are unripe drupes preserved in brine or vinegar.
Red Pepper, generally consists of ripe peppercorn drupes preserved in brine & vinegar, also can be dried using the same colour-preserving techniques used to produce green pepper.
White Pepper, ripe drupes consists solely of the seed of the ripe drupe of the pepper plant, with the thin darker-coloured fleshy skin of the fruit removed accomplished by a process known as retting, where fully ripe red pepper dupes are soaked in water during 7 days, the peppercorn softens & decomposes, by rubbing the fruits the remains are removed, the cleaned seeds are dried.
Other industrial ways to remove the skin is chemical biological or mechanical methods.
White pepper lacks certain compounds present in the outer layer of the drupe, resulting in a different, less aromatic overall flavour.
Pink Peppercorns, are not really pepper, they are berries with a pepper like flavour. They are fruits of the Peruvian or Brazilian pepper tree, also growing in Columbia & Venezuela, plants from a different family as they are members of the cashew family, they may cause allergic reactions, including anaphylaxis, for persons with a tree nut allergy!!!
👉 One World one Dream,
🙏...Danke, Xièxie 谢谢, Thanks, Gracias, Merci, Grazie, Obrigado, Arigatô, Dhanyavad, Chokrane to you & over
17 million visits in my photostream with countless motivating comments