Culinary Delight with Or Without Other Vegetables, Such As Asparagus
CULINARY round chilies can be cooked, but are most often eaten as pickles Culinary Delight with or without other vegetables, such as asparagus. by Laura Kelley ant to know a secret? Bhutanese cuisine will be About Chili Peppers the next great discovery of the food world. It is inevitable, because the breadth of ingredients, In Bhutan, chili peppers are W eaten as vegetables and also the variety of dishes, and the enduring ritual use of food, is rivaled only in the much better known cuisines of Korea used in large quantities to flavor and Japan. The diversity of its ingredients and dishes is dishes. Bhutanese long peppers made possible by its varied geography and climate, which are spicy, but they are nowhere ranges from sub-tropical to alpine and from lowland near as spicy as some peppers, to highland. This allows for an extraordinary variety of for instance some Habeneros. foods to be cultivated or gathered and eaten. Bananas They look like robust, finger and oranges thrive in the South while the highlands yield hot peppers but their heat falls the delicious and characteristic yak dairy products used somewhere between a finger in many Bhutanese dishes. hot (which is around 30,000 on the Scoville scale) and a Thai Although many people keep vegetarian, a selection of chili pepper (which can pack meat abounds from the commonly enjoyed pork and over 100,000 Scovilles of heat). chicken, to beef, water buffalo, and yak. The many The long peppers come in three lakes and streams of Bhutan also provide a bounty of colors, green, red, and white fish that range from the familiar river trout to the less and also have a range of heat familiar fresh water shellfish.
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