I recently stumbled upon a recipe that asked for pepper leaves. I thought they meant curry leaves but they certainly were referring to leaves from pepper plants. This is the first time I have ever heard of people cooking with pepper plant leaves. Am I ignorant, and this is commonplace? I'm kinda excited to try this, especially as I seem to be more adept at growing leaves than peppers! Has anyone here cooked with pepper leaves?
Cooking with pepper leaves
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I've found these two recipes:
https://www.thaitable.com/thai/recipe/green-curry-paste
https://vegeyum.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/chilli-leaves-with-peas/
What put me onto this was a recipe I saw that put pepper leaves in a ferment. I'll be damned if I can find that now!
https://www.thaitable.com/thai/recipe/green-curry-paste
https://vegeyum.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/chilli-leaves-with-peas/
What put me onto this was a recipe I saw that put pepper leaves in a ferment. I'll be damned if I can find that now!
It's the first time I see this... I thought perhaps they meant leaves of a plant of the genus Piper, but they explicitly state chile.
We sometimes use chipilín (Crotalaria longirostrata) to add a green colour (especially tortilla), but it is not without taste.
We sometimes use chipilín (Crotalaria longirostrata) to add a green colour (especially tortilla), but it is not without taste.
They are used in green curry mostly.