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Nov 24, 2010

Cooking black chili.

'Black chili', which my wife's aunt gave us , is a vegetable which we had never seen till now. It's exciting to cook and eat vegetables which we have never seen and eaten isn't it?



The appearance of black chili is more round shaped and fleshier than usual
green chili. And it's interesting to see the black color changing to green when the chili are grilled ! You can see the color change easily on a dish made by my wife.



My wife grilled the chili with sliced pork. The taste is not spicy but milder than usual green chili and delicious!

-- from iPad

11 comments:

Hazel said...

Interesting. Not hot?

p3chandan said...

Ive never seen this black chilli too and its like magic when they turn green when its grilled! Are you going to plant this type of chilli in your garden?

One said...

I have many varieties of chillies but have never come across this one.

Mark Willis said...

How odd that black chillis should turn green when cooked! It normally works the other way round - green ones (and red ones) turn black.
I have never grown black chillis myself, but I have seen them (or at least ones that are very dark purple) advertised in catalogues. I will see if I can find the name of the one I am thinking of...

takaeko said...

>Hazel
Not hot and not spicy. So even my kids ate them up! The taste is much closer to that of bell pepper, I think.

>p3chandan and One
I'm surprised with the fact that nobody visiting my blog has never seen that black chili. It's too late to seed black chili so I will try it next spring.

>Mark
I think the mechanism of changing color is the same with that of green or red ones which you mention.
Now I am also seeking the name of that black chili on the internet and some books.

Mark Willis said...

Hi Takaeko; In one of my seed catalogues (Plants of Distinction)[www.plantsofdistinction.co.uk] I see a chilli variety called "BLack Hungarian" which is described as "mildly hot, with black fruit riepning to red". Could be similar to your one maybe. You should ask your wife's aunt if their black chilli also goes red when it is fully ripe.

takaeko said...

>Mark
Thank you for indentifing the chili! I saw some red ripen chilis on the black chili trees! I asked my wife's aunt about the chili and she said the black chili was bred in Nara pref about 100 years ago. Do you think the black chili you mention is same with mine? Please refer to the homepage of Nara City Hall (only in Japanese) where the chili is introduced as a local product.

http://www.pref.nara.jp/dd_aspx_menuid-8046.htm

Mark Willis said...

Hi Takaeko; I have had a look at the website you mention, but I can't read Japanese, so it didn't mean much to me -- but the picture is nice! I suspect that Black Chillis were just a "freak" that occurred in one or two places (like Japan and Hungary?)and people have bred from them to produce a new variety.

takaeko said...

>Mark
Freak means mutation? If so, I also think your theory of 'freak' is convincible. And the production of the black chili in Japan is much less than normal red chili so just limited amount of black chili can be distributed to shops according to my wife's aunt.
Anyway, I'm happy to be able to introduce a rare kind of vegetable to you.
I'll seed black chili next spring.

fer said...

They look very yummy!
Is nice to see some different varieties here in japan.
I have only seed those back at my country, but I dont remember the name.

takaeko said...

>fer
Even in Japan black chilis are so rare that you can not see that in a seed shop around you due to less distribution to shops in Japan.
I'll get seeds or sprouts of the black chili from my wife's aunt and transplant them onto my garden next spring.