Hot pepper sauce is a kind of sauce made of chilli, which is a common condiment on the table. Hunan is the main area, with oil and water systems. Oil is made of sesame oil and chili pepper, bright red color, floating on top of a layer of sesame oil, easy to preserve.
Water is made of water and pepper, bright red color, add garlic, ginger, sugar, salt, can be preserved for a long time, taste more delicious.
Every region has different local flavors of chili sauce. Generally at home to make chili sauce, put chili pepper in the pot, fry (without oil), grind into powder (knife cut can also be broken as well as the better, pepper powder (also cooked with non-greasy pot, fragrant, and then made into powder), garlic (according to the number of chili peppers and personal preferences). The above condiments, garlic and vinegar are finally put into the pot with oil (the amount of oil depends on how much chili pepper, no more than chili pepper). It's also OK to put fragrant oil directly. After heating, cool the oil and add it to chili pepper. Then mix it with garlic and vinegar, and put it in a glass bottle to eat, pickle, noodles, fried vegetables.
Main efficacy of Hot pepper Sauce
1.Antipyretic and analgesic: hot pepper can reduce body temperature through sweating and alleviate muscle pain, so it has a strong antipyretic and analgesic effect.
2. Preventing canceration: Capsaicin, an effective ingredient of capsicum, is an antioxidant, which can prevent the metabolism of cells concerned, thus terminating the canceration process of cell tissues and reducing the incidence of cancer cells.
3. Increase appetite and help digestion: The strong spicy taste of pepper can stimulate the secretion of saliva and gastric juice, increase appetite, promote intestinal peristalsis and help digestion.
4. Lipid-lowering and weight-losing: Capsaicin contained in capsicum pepper can promote fat metabolism and prevent fat accumulation in the body, which is conducive to lipid-lowering and weight-losing and disease prevention.
Main Species of Chinese hot pepper
1. Pod pepper
Pod pepper originated in Thailand, then introduced pepper seeds to China, and cultivated many varieties of Pod pepper. Pod pepper fruit are small, so it is also called small pepper. Pod pepper is characterized by small fruit, high spicy and easy to dry. It is mainly used with Fujian Capsicum King and other dry pepper varieties. The cultivation area of Pod pepper in China has leaped to the top.
2. Bell Pepper or Lantern Pepper
Lantern pepper is widely cultivated in most parts of China. Lantern pepper is generally flat spherical, round or cylindrical, with irregular concave and convex fruits around, prominent as papillary in the middle, weighing 3.5-6 grams per fruit, green young fruit, dark red after ripening, just like an inverted golden bell, very beautiful.
3. Alstonia Pepper
Alstonia Pepper is a type of sweet pepper, shaped like horn. Its characteristics are: thin skin, thick flesh, bright color, fragrance and moderate spicy, capsaicin and vitamin C rank first in the country's hot products.