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Gardening Series: Various Types of Peppers and Their Uses: 8. Piri Piri Pepper

September 25, 2018

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PEPPERS


8. Piri Piri

Alternate Names: Peri peri, African bird's-eye pepper and African red devil pepper

Characteristics: When Portuguese sailors made port of call in what's now South Africa and Mozambique, they brought ashore little chile peppers called bird's eyes, or peri-peri in Swahili. The name also came to refer to the piquant sauce made from these chiles, as well as to the Portuguese-African method of cooking prawns, chicken, or anything else in this sauce. Nando's bottled version is a mainstay for those who don't want to make it from scratch. Though it's a relatively small pepper, growing only one to two inches, it packs quite a punch.


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Scoville Heat Units: 50,000 to 175,000

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