Sichuan peppercorns
About the ingredient sichuan peppercorns. Including 24 recipes with sichuan peppercorns, and photos.
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What are sichuan peppercorns?
Sichuan pepper is also know as anise pepper, prickly ash or simply Chinese pepper is a hot, slightly peppery dried berry from the prickly ash family. In large amounts is causing a numbing effect on the palate.
Inside the berries are tiny black seeds that are bitter and are removed from split berries to create the best quality spice.
Originating in Sichuan province china it is a very popular flavoring that characterizes dishes from the Sichuan region and throughout China.
If you cannot find Sichuan peppers you may substitute black pepper instead, although for an authentic flavor make efforts to find the real thing.
| In Chinese: | 花椒 | |
| British (UK) term: | ||
| en français: | poivre sichuan | |
| en español: | granos de pimienta de Sichuan |
Recipes using sichuan peppercorns
There are 24 recipes that contain this ingredient.
Chinese Broad Bean & Potato Stir-Fry with Noodles
This is a classic dish in Northern China, it's usually made with broad beans, potatoes, pork or beef chunks as you wish, and freshly made noodles. This is an easier version by using spaghetti, I also omit the meat to make it a meatless but still very tasty.
Sichuan Stir-Fry Eggplant with Bell Peppers
A classic Chinese sichuan stir-fry. There are lots of notes in this dish, spicy, sweet, fermented taste from soy bean paste, and Asian symbol flavor from garlic, ginger and scallions. In China, the eggplant is usually fried in a good amount of oil under a high temperature, and sometimes people add some minced pork to add flavor. It's a delicious and popular dish that you can find at every Chinese restaurant in China.
Sichuan Stir-Fried Bok Choy with Red Chilis
Sichuan peppers is the key ingredient in this recipe, ginger, garlic, scallions and fresh red chili peppers stir-fried with bok choy. Very juicy and tasty, great with some rice or noodles.
Sichuan Messy Corn Stir-Fry
This quick corn stir-fry is packed with flavors, sichuan hot chili oil and peppercorns give the sweet corn lots of yumminess. If you don't like the corn on the cob, simply scape the kernels off, or frozen corn can be used as well.
Chinese Beef Stew
Chunks of beef slowly braised in an authentic Chinese manner. Nearly any tough cut of beef can be made magically tender and flavorful with this technique.
Salmon in Pesto Sauce
The pesto sauce is good on any steamed, baked, broiled, or grilled firm-fleshed fish fillet.
The most simple yet Great tasting Pumpkin Soup
There are many variety of recipes for pumpkin soup, but this one is special tasting and quick to prepare so that you could enjoy the light music, play Bingo free or Online Bingo or with someone special. It sounds great it even better ! ! ! ! !
Mapo Tofu (Main)
Popular Chinese dish from the Sichuan region containing bean curd cooked in a spicy pepper and black bean sauce. Fermented black beans have long been used to boost digestion and support immune function. The process of fermentation also increases the vitamin B and omega-3 fatty acid content of the beans. Adding fermented foods to one’s diet is one of the best ways of creating a protective environment in the gut against harmful pathogenic bacteria and other organisms.
Sichuan Dry-Fried Green Beans (Sides)
Dry your beans well before cooking. To get the traditional ‘blistered’ look of the beans you will need to shallow-fry them for 5-6 minutes and stir constantly to avoid burning.
Ginger-Garlic Chili Oil
Make your own chili oil by using a few simple ingredients, which is great for stir-fry or mixed with noodles.
