Several years ago the guy I was dating at the time made me this delicious spaghetti sauce. He learned how to make it in Italy and it had this skinny, red, dried pepper about 1 to 1 1/2 inches long. It was a pretty hot pepper (his friends dared me to eat one whole) but not too hot. It made the sauce just spicy enough to clear your sinuses out a bit. I really want to make this sauce for my family but I can't remember what the pepper is called. Does anyone know?
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Take a look at some of the photos of peppers on this link, B'sgirl Google Image Result for http://www.tradewindsfruit.com/hot_pepper_japanese.jpg
I've grown Thai hots before, which are small, long, skinny red peppers and have dried them. They are pretty hot, though.
See if anything jogs your memory.
Lee
I've grown Thai hots before, which are small, long, skinny red peppers and have dried them. They are pretty hot, though.
See if anything jogs your memory.
Lee
GotGarlic
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It sounds like a serrano pepper that was allowed to mature to red. Here's a visual guide to peppers: Visual guide to peppers
And here's a recipe for the sauce: Recipes : Arrabbiata Sauce : Food Network
HTH.
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Ooh, thanks! Especially for the recipe! It could be one of the capsicum peppers (one of those is used in the Kung Pao so you must be right, Caine). I swear the name was something like Perichino, but they guy was fluent in Italian, he may not know an English term for it. But I think I'll see if I can find a capsicum and give it a try and I'll post how it goes.
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