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In 2010, Renfro Foods debuted Ghost Pepper salsa , [2] its hottest salsa to date. It is made with the Bhut Jolokia pepper, also known as the ghost pepper. Ghost Pepper became the company’s fastest-growing new product, and is also a 2011 Scovie Award winner. [citation needed]
The ghost pepper, [2] [3] also known as bhüt jolokia (lit. ' Bhutanese pepper ' or 'Ghost pepper' in Assamese [ 4 ] ), is an interspecific hybrid chili pepper cultivated in Northeast India . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] It is a hybrid of Capsicum chinense and Capsicum frutescens .
Naga Bhut Jolokia - The pepper is also known as Bhut Jolokia, ghost pepper, ghost chili pepper, red naga chilli, and ghost chilli. [20] In 2007, Guinness World Records certified that the Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) was the world's hottest chili pepper, 400 times hotter than Tabasco sauce; however, in 2011 it has since been superseded by the ...
Like many varieties of the Chinense species, the Naga Morich is a small-medium shrub with large leaves, small, five-petaled flowers, and blisteringly hot fruit. It differs from the Bhut Jolokia and Bih Jolokia in that it is slightly smaller with a pimply ribbed texture as opposed to the smoother flesh of the other two varieties.
Hot sauces proper, however, were not common until recent decades, as varieties such as bhut jolokia and naga morich attained global fame. In Nepal, Nun-khursani is a popular condiment made with salt and chilli peppers like Akabare on a grinding stone called a silauto.
Bhut Jolokia (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, and Nagaland). Kashmiri Mirch (Kashmir). Guntur Sannam (Andhra Pradesh). Jwala Chilli (Gujarat).
Bhut jolokia: Capsicum chinense 'Naga Jolokia' কেপছিকাম, Kepsikam Bell pepper: Capsicum annuum: Piyaaj Onion: Allium cepa: Beans and pulses. Assamese name
In 2001, Paul Bosland, a researcher at the Chile Pepper Institute at New Mexico State University, visited India to collect specimens of ghost pepper, also called the Bhut Jolokia or Naga king chili, [4] traditionally grown near Assam, India, which was being studied by the Indian army for weaponization.