Difference in Color, Taste, and Usage

Pepper powder and chili powder are made by grinding pepper and chili pepper into powdered substance respectively.

The difference is as follows

1, color. Pepper is divided into black pepper and white pepper, the color is black or white; chili powder is usually red.

2, flavor. Pepper flavor is spicy, paste flavor; chili pepper flavor is mainly manifested as spicy.

3, use. Pepper is usually used as stir-fried vegetables or soup, can make the rice or soup taste stronger, and generally added when cooking; chili pepper used as a seasoning to add spice, generally used to do a good job after the seasoning, but also can be added to stir-fried vegetables.

Note: Eating chili peppers is easy to fire, consumption should be careful.

Pepper appearance

Pepper's appearance is relatively easy to recognize, the berry is spherical, sessile, 3-4 mm in diameter, red when ripe, immature dry black. The outer shell of the pepper is inedible, and the edible part is only the inner berry. White pepper seeds are the ripe pepper fruits peeled and dried, while black pepper seeds are obtained by picking the immature fruits and drying them.

Taste of Pepper

Pepper has a fragrant, spicy odor and is a good flavoring agent used in a wide variety of cooking. A common use is to make pepper powder, which is used in cooking to remove fishy and enhance the flavor. White pepper has a more pungent flavor than black pepper, and black pepper has a stronger flavor than white pepper.

Functions of Pepper

Pepper's ability to enhance flavor is due to the presence of plant bases and amines in its composition. Pepper is mainly used to flavor soups in Chinese cuisine, such as adding pepper when making chicken soup for a more flavorful taste. Black pepper is often used for flavoring. Black pepper is almost indispensable in Western cuisine, such as black pepper spaghetti and black pepper steak.

Chili powder

Chili powder is a red or reddish-yellow, oily and uniform powder, a mixture of red chili peppers, yellow chili peppers, chili peppers, chili peppers and some chili peppers milled into a mixture of poles, with the intrinsic spicy flavor of chili peppers, smelling stinging nose sneezing. Authentic ones should be pounded out with a stone mortar, or you can just use dried chili peppers and put them in the sun or roast them in a pot over a moderate fire and then pound them into powder form.

Powdered chili pepper

Powdered chili pepper is very simple to make, we need to dry the chili peppers, and then pound them with something, and then in the sun for a period of time, and in the pounding of chili peppers it is best to add some salt, so that the taste will be more flavorful. After thoroughly drying, you can store it.