1. So many recipes specify dried chillies. Why not fresh?? Thinking of Harissa.
2. And, for other things, one sees red + green, or dried red + fresh green etc. Are our taste buds really that refined, recognising that they are going to be burnt off anyway??
Nothing to do with Fresh or Dried
Fresh is Better
Dried lasts longer
Chillies.......normally how smaller the chillies how Hotter
also a diffference betwen Red type and Green
Hope that helps Tim !!       Mike ;)
Yes - so why do they bother to specify??
Tim ;)
Have´nt gotta clue mate
Ask the Manufactorers ???
Tim Just maybe its Marketing Stratagy!! What do you think!!
Thanks for trying!
Yes Good Try Ah ;D
Tim, are the flavours more intense in the dried? ???
Doris_ Pinks :)
REf: Chillies Drying and crushing Chillies will produce Cayenne pepper.....not the powder you buy in the shops Hope thats a help ???
                 Mike
EXtract: Best Vegetables and Herbs ;)
Doris - yes - because no water - but then use more fresh??
If they were roasted, I could see the difference.
Sorry - I have a bee in my bonnet about unfounded recipes!! Can anyone really identify the difference?? If you have a tastebud left!
Whatever, I shall be using up our frozen fresh (Jalapeno) reds in tomorrow's Harissa.
Tim, the trouble lies in wanting to follow a recipe to the letter - surely all recipies are is a guideline.
NattyEm :)
I think your absolutely right a Recipe is what[ you will make from it ] its not hard and fast....like us it has to be a little flexible. ;)
Mike
I'm the last one to follow a recipe blind - that's why I spend a lot of time asking WHY?? I use them as a 'spark'.
But I do like to know why any recipe writer can recommend something that appears to have no logical explanation.
fair enough tim, it does make sense more knowledge leading to better result from understading what you're doing rather than just doing it.