Description

Taste this delicious Azorean Hot Chili Pepper, "Pimenta da Terra, Dona Pimentinha" sauce and you will no longer stop using it in your kitchen.

"Dona Pimentinha Picante" is a spicier version of this hot chili pepper, for demanding connoisseurs. It has a relentless heat, this sauce is for those that crave for a exquisite fire in some special dishes.

The pepper sauce manufacturing techniques relies on cutting the chili pepper, taking its seeds and smashing it until it gets soft. Several days in a terracotta container with salt, among other secret technics, will do the final taste.
It can be use in barbecue cooking (vegetables, meat and fish), roasted fish or pork meat, stews, soups, cottage or fresh cheese, in our national piripiri chicken and party finger food as well.

In the last few years, consumption of all peppers has increased in general. Hot chili pepper contain vitamin C and A and is also an excellent source of fiber.

D. Pimentinha is a product of a small company that produces and distributes a wide variety of products, many of them from old tradicional ancient recipes from the Azores island of S.Miguel. Their production comes from a 15 hectare field cultivation without any kind of preservatives. They participate in local fairs and gastronomical events, sell their products in Portugal (mainland and islands) and exports to several countries, having been awarded with some prizes in the last years.

1 bottle of Azorean extra hot chili pepper sauce, "Dona Pimentinha Picante": 370g

Suggestions using Azorean chilli pepper "Pimenta da Terra"

Origin
Azores has a wide variety of hot chili pepper production. The Azorean typical red pepper is very close to a variety of red pepper of Guinea and Benin coasts, where it seems to have come at the time of Portuguese spice trade routes. Besides the red pepper (sometimes called Piripiri), the main varieties are the Horn-of-Pepper Goat (Corno-de-Cabra) and the Earth Pepper (or Grada - Pimenta da Terra).

History
Dona Pimentinha (or Miss Pepper) is a product of a small family business operating since 1997 producing unique taste moments with this red pepper sauce based on homemade recipes and popular traditions.

Started with the commitment with nature, Azorean roots and its genuine quality products in witch this sauce has a notorious place and demand.

The use of this condiment on Azorean popular recipes widespread from the sixteenth century.

Piripiri means "pepper-pepper" in Swahili language (East African coast language). In Portugal it specifically refers to a small-fruited variety that resembles a piquin. It is a small member of the Capsicum genus.
It's a curious story though how it came to Portugal and conquer this half of the world.

After Columbus brought back chili seeds to the Iberian Peninsula on his second voyage to the New World, Portuguese traders carried the seeds to their African colonies of Angola, Mozambique, and Goa, and latter on introduced in Azores where it is called "Pimenta da Terra".
Piripiri grows in Uganda, Malawi, South Africa, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, the tropical forests of South Sudan & the highlands of Ethiopia.
Chilli peppers originated in the Americas and nowadays India is the world's largest producer, consumer and exporter of chilli peppers.

There is a verifiable correlation between the chili pepper geographical dissemination and consumption in Asia and the presence of Portuguese traders, with India and southeast Asia being obvious "chilies examples" brought to Asia by Portuguese navigators during the 16th century.

Initially grown as botanical curiosities in the gardens of Spanish and Portuguese monasteries red or green ones, monks soon discovered and experimented its chili culinary potential.
Nowadays Portuguese households keep a stack of fresh red chili at hand to flavour most typical portuguese dishes.
Piripiri sauce (used as a seasoning or marinade) is Portuguese in origin and locally used in Angola, Namibia, Mozambique and South Africa. In some of this places we even can find the best knowned and delicious flame-grilled piripiri chicken take-way, as in Portugal.
A little red fire capsule that influenced the Portuguese cuisine flavours forever.

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