Description
Product: Smoked Paprika
Latin Name: Capsicum annuum
Plant Family: Solanaceae
Other Names: Smoked Pimento, Pimentón Ahumado, Piment
Doux Fumé, Geräucherte Paprika, Fumou
Páprica & Affumicato Paprika.
Description: Smoked paprika comes from an annual plant native to
South America, which is now cultivated worldwide and in can become
perennial where no frost occurs that reaches a height of 1 metre.
The leaves are alternate, simple, ovate, and glossy, mid to deep
green in colour and ***2cm in length. The **6 petaled flowers are
white to pale purple in colour, 8–*5mm in diameter and
solitary. The fruits look like berries and are **2cm in diameter,
bright green turning to red as the fruit ripens.
Interesting Fact: To make smoked paprika, first the peppers are
dried and then put into a wood smoker, usually oak wood is used as
it imparts a unique flavour, the peppers are then smoked slowly for
days to give them the flavour we all know and love, the smoked
peppers are then ground into fine powder.
