in Spain, Mexico, the United States and many other countries like hot spices.There are grown jalapenos.What it is?This hot pepper chili, which was named after the city of Xalapa.It is located in Mexico, in the state of Veracruz, and is a major producer of acute vegetable.
Description
vegetable has a miniature size - from 5 to 9 cm. The smaller the length of the fruit, the more valuable it is considered.Weight pepper averages fifty grams, color - green.The pods are beginning to blush when ripe, but collect them green.The period of growing crops - and eighty days after the end of flowering.The plant does not grow more than a meter in height, but even with a small jalapeno can get up to thirty-five fruits per cycle of growth.
There is no one kind of jalapeno.Photos show that they can be long pods, pointed and oblong.In our latitudes occurs usually the last kind.All varieties differ not only in appearance, but also the region and the growth temperature of pungency.In the treatment of the most severe kinds of fruit pickers wear gloves, because vegetables can cause skin irritation.
in southern countries and in Europe this vegetable Dear fans of sharp little, in our country it is not very common, but no less popular.
Jalapeno - that is: burning seasoning or a separate dish?
pods are used for making salsa and pickled.Red fruits are less valuable, but they keep their taste and quality of consumer.Therefore, overripe vegetables are dried and ground into a seasoning.They are also introduced into the soil as fertilizer.
Jalapeno Peppers can be a separate dish or ingredient compound.Their fried grilled or baked, added to salads and meat, vegetables and fish dishes.In Mexico, for example, popular vegetable stew with the addition of smoked peppers burning.In Europe, the chef added to the dishes often pickled vegetables.
In Russia, the stores can be found in hot pepper seasoning or frozen jalapeno.What is it - a delicacy or a traditional meal?The answer to this question can not be unique: in one state can not live without burning peppers, and the other to him wary and consider them a delicacy.
Jalapeno is a mandatory addition to the traditional Mexican drink SANGRITA, which washed down with tequila.To make it, take the orange, tomato and lemon juice, add pepper.The drink became so acute that the effect is comparable with the tequila.
taste
Nifty Index or the sharpness of pepper pungency can range from medium to high."The degree of taste" measured temperature sensations.Connoisseurs say that the taste of peppers at the beginning can have a warm temperature sensations that replaced the hot.
If any Mexican ask "Jalapeno - what is it?" - He replied that it sredneostry pepper with a slight taste of nuts and unforgettable sour.The inhabitants of this country are so fond of burning vegetable that they prepare it for future use.And not only pickled pods, but also make jam from them!
Acuity jalapeno depends on the conditions of cultivation and processing method.The most burning tissue are holding the seeds in a pod.Pepper, from which the tissue was removed to soften the taste, called "castrated."
In Mexico, burning peppers occupy huge plantations.In the US, they are so fond of that honored vegetable space flight, he became one of the first spices, that the astronauts took with them.
