Associated with Asian cooking, it can be used to add both flavour and colour to almost any savoury dish. USES: Soak in hot water and puree or simply chop with the other dry ingredients in a recipe to make an authentic curry paste - particularly good for a vindaloo paste. It can be added to curries, vegetable dishes, tomato sauce, soups and stews in whole, crushed and powdered forms as required by the recipe.

Chilli Greeting Cards and postcards Beautiful, chilli-themed postcards and greeting cards (left blank for your own message). Kashmiri Chillies are the dry pods from a species of Capsicum Annuum that India use vast quantities of. In the event of any safety concerns or for any other information about a product please carefully read any instructions provided on the label or packaging and contact the manufacturer.

Content on this site is not intended to substitute for advice given by medical practitioner, pharmacist, or other licensed health-care professional. Culinary Uses • If you want to impart an appealing red colour to the food without making it too hot and spicy, then this is the perfect red chilli variety for you. These 'Kashmiri Red Chillies' will impart a wonderful deep red colour into your Indian/Thai/Oriental without adding too much heat.

The Kashmiri chilli adds a vibrant red colour when used to make curry pastes - it is this colour that poorer-quality restaurants try to recreate with red food colouring! Information and statements about products are not intended to be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease or health condition. You can use Kashmiri Chillies either as they are, chopping them up and adding to the food or by making them into a paste.It is also very useful just for adding warmth and colour to anything else, particularly dishes based on tomatoes – try adding a little to a homemade tomato soup, turning it into the perfect Winter warmer! Please always read the labels, warnings, and directions provided with the product before using or consuming a product. For using in the kitchen, they should be picked when red and dried in a dehydrator, conservatory or warm, sunny spot in the house. Garden Sundries An assortment of useful – and often hard to find – gardening tools that we highly recommend. The plants are sent through the post by first class mail in see-through packaging so the postman knows they need to be handled carefully.

If you are tasting as you go, you can always add a little more if you need to, but taking heat out is difficult if not impossible. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.We recommend that you do not rely solely on the information presented here and that you always read labels, warnings, and directions before using or consuming a product. They are popular both for this gorgeous colour, and also their mild heat, which brings a lovely warmth to dishes rather than the fiery character of hotter chillis. Add an authentic colour to your dishes with these chillies, not a red food colouring – your taste buds will thank you! This powder is especially good in curries such as rogan josh and tikka masala, where the deep red colour is of importance. The heat from chillies is a subjective thing we find; what some may find too hot, others might find tame.

They are sown in January and February, and are ready for potting on when you receive them in April or May. These kashmiri chillies are slightly milder than other dried red chillies but impart a unique fragrance and a slight sweetness to a dish. What makes these chillies distinct is not only its mild hot flavour but can also add a rich red colour to your dishes. Environment Information System, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India. Kashmiri pepper appears wrinkled and rough, often brownish when traditionally dried (long dry), but contains densly concentrated Red pigment material.

Numerous companies sell the powdered form, including MDH, Everest Spices, Sakthi Masala and Badshah Masala. We will start selling chillies again in August/September 2023 (the exact time for each variety depends on the crops). There are government initiatives and incentives in Jammu and Kashmir to support and increase the production of the local variety of the Kashmiri chilli. Seed production • Development of growing techniques • Variety trials Each tour will be around two hours long and will be limited to 20 people.