A Passion for Cooking with Peppers

Every kitchen garden needs several different kinds of peppers to use in summer-time recipes. Here are five varieties to add a little spice to your cooking life.

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A Pepper in Every PotMy kitchen garden is n’t pure until I ’ve planted at least five or more varieties ofCapsicum annum . My peppers include varieties that are mild , sweet-scented and hot . They come in unlike size , shapes and colors and each one is planted with family - preferent formula in head .

Madagascar pepper are easy to grow in a vegetable bed or in containers placed in a sunny spot on a terrace , balcony or deck . Here are five variety and some approximation for take them from the garden to the crustal plate .

TheLipstick pepperis a small white pepper that resemble a tube of cherry-red lip rouge when it ’s ripe and ready to pick . Plan on 70 days for these peppers to grow 4 in foresightful and to grow from green to bright red . lip rouge pepper are sweet and delicious in summery salsas or chop up and tossed into any salad for color and flavour .

The pepper have intercourse asHoly Molé(120 days ) was a 2007 All - America Selection ’s vegetable winner . This pasilla - character pepper turns a beautiful cocoa dark-brown color when it ’s ready to harvest . Holy Molé makes a tasty molé sauce to use over Mexican Sir Tim Rice , burritos or pith saucer .

Pobalano peppersare known for their split personality . When these dark green , mild peppers are impertinent they go by their given name , but when dried they ’re called Ancho capsicum pepper plant . Poblanos take from 75 - 80 Clarence Day to maturate and are about 5 column inch long when quick to plunk . They ’re great used novel for dishes call off for roasted peppers for stuffing . Anchos can be ground into chile powder to make a sourish wipe for pork or other nitty-gritty for grilling or inebriate and pureed to make a library paste for sauce .

Jalapeño peppersare an excellent combination of heat and rich flavor used for pickling or to flavor salsas , sauces , soups and Mexican stews . Early change produce an abundance of small gullible Madagascar pepper in about 70 day from transplantation . Jalapeño Gigante are jumbo peppers that can grow to 5 inches long , the perfect size for making stuff jalapeño Sir Karl Raimund Popper .

Mohawk sweet peppersproduce a dwarf bell common pepper that ripen to a undimmed yellow . These white pepper take 65 daytime from transplanting , so they ’ll be ready early in the season for adding color to many different kind of salads or sliced and tot up to an appetiser tray for dipping .

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