Chili powder
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Chilli powder, chile powder or chili powder (American English) is a powder consisting purely or mainly of powdered hot chilli pepper, most commonly either red peppers or cayenne peppers, which are both of the species Capsicum annuum.
It can be made from virtually any hot pepper including ancho, Cayenne, Jalapeño, New Mexico, and pasilla chillis.
It is often pure powdered chilli, but if made as a spice mix, other ingredients may include cumin, oregano, garlic powder, and salt. [1][2] Some mixes may even include black pepper, cinnamon, cloves, coriander, mace, nutmeg, or turmeric.[citation needed] As a result of the various different potential additives, the spiciness of any given chilli powder is variable.
Chilli powder is widely used in traditional Indian cuisine.
Chilli powder spice mix is especially popular in American cuisine, where it is the primary flavor ingredient in chilli con carne. The first commercial blends of chilli powder in the U.S. were created in the 1890s by D.C. Pendery and William Gebhardt for precisely this dish.[3]
[edit] References
- ^ Brown, Alton (2004-08-18), "The Big Chilli", Good Eats (Food Network), http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_28230,00.html, retrieved 2007-09-11
- ^ Bradshaw, Eleanor (June 1997), How to Make Your Own Chilli Powder; or, Some Like it Hot, Texas Cooking Online, Inc., http://www.texascooking.com/features/jun97chilepowder.htm, retrieved 2007-09-11
- ^ DeWitt, Dave; Gerlach, Nancy (2003), "Chili Conquers the U.S.A.", The Great Chili con Carne Project (Fiery-Foods.com), http://www.fiery-foods.com/dave/chiliconcarne2.asp, retrieved 2007-09-11
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