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Scotch bonnet (also known as Bonney peppers, or Caribbean red peppers) [1] is a variety of chili pepper named for its supposed resemblance to a Scottish tam o' shanter bonnet. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is native to the Americas —a cultivar of Capsicum chinense , which originated in the Amazon Basin , Central and South America .
It is one of the hottest forms of curry regularly available, even hotter than the vindaloo, using many ground standard chilli peppers, or a hotter type of chilli such as scotch bonnet, habanero, or Carolina Reaper. Typically, the dish is a tomato-based thick curry and includes ginger and optionally fennel seeds. [2]
The habanero is named after the Cuban city of La Habana, known in English as Havana, because it used to feature heavily in trading there.(Despite the name, habaneros and other spicy-hot ingredients are rarely used in traditional Cuban cooking.) [2] [3] In English, it is sometimes incorrectly spelled habañero and pronounced / ˌ (h) ɑː b ə ˈ n j ɛər oʊ /, the tilde being added as a ...
The scientific species name C. chinense or C. sinensis ("Chinese capsicum") is a misnomer. All Capsicum species originated in the New World. [7] Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817), a Dutch botanist, erroneously named the species in 1776, because he believed it originated in China due to their prevalence in Chinese cuisine; it however was later found to be introduced by earlier European ...
Before the early 1990s, there were only two peppers which had been measured above 350,000 SHU, the Scotch bonnet and the habanero. [2] California farmer Frank Garcia used a sport of a habanero to develop a new cultivar, the Red Savina ( C. chinense ), [ 3 ] which was measured at 570,000 in 1994.
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Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Scotch cap may refer to: Tam o' Shanter (cap), a hat; Rubus occidentalis ...
Jerk is a style of cooking native to Jamaica, in which meat is dry-rubbed or wet-marinated with a hot spice mixture called Jamaican jerk spice.. The technique of jerking (or cooking with jerk spice) originated from Jamaica's indigenous peoples, the Arawak and Taíno tribes, and was adopted by the descendants of 17th-century Jamaican Maroons who intermingled with them.