Description
Product: Sze Chuan Pepper Powder
Sichuan pepper is the dried berry of a type of spiky shrub native to regions of Western China. Unlike its name suggests, it’s neither a pepper nor a chilli. Unique to Chinese cuisine, it has been used as a spice since ancient times. It has a pinkish-red, pimply appearance and delivers a distinctive, mouth-numbing sensation known as Má/麻.
It’s best to describe its taste in two dimensions:
• Flavour-wise, it has a citrus aroma plus an overtone of pine.
• Sense-wise, it creates a tingly, numbing sensation in your mouth that is something like the effect of carbonated drinks or of a mild electric current (touching the terminals of a nine-volt battery to the tongue.
It doesn’t produce heat thus it doesn’t taste hot. Dishes that contain Sichuan pepper often taste spicy simply because it’s often paired with dried chilli pepper.
How to use Si Chuan Pepper?
Suggestion use:
USE AS POWDER
• Sprinkle over hot dishes (eg. Mapo tofu/麻婆豆腐)
• Mix in dressing for cold dishes (eg. Mouth-watering chicken/口水鸡)
• Make seasoning for noodles dishes (eg. Dan Dan Noodles/担担面)
• Add to layered Chinese pastry (eg. Scallion pancake/葱油饼)
• Stir in dumpling fillings (eg. Great dumpling fillings/饺子馅 )
• Marinate meat to reduce its gamey smell
FOR MAKING CONDIMENT
• Chinese five-spice powder / 五香粉
• Chinese salt & pepper spice mix / 椒盐
• Sichuan pepper infused oil / 花椒油
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