Senin, 08 November 2010

Spicy Hot Food Series: Heating Up Europe

Portuguese Piri piri chicken and tomato salad, recipes below


Historically there has been a race and class dimension to the custom of eating spicy hot food. With some exceptions, Europeans used salt and showed disdain for spicy hot flavors until more recent times. For example, before the establishment of colonies in the Far East, in the Netherlands cooks seasoned their food with salt and few other non-spicy flavors. The French used salt plus lots of butter, chives, onions, thyme, and garlic. British seasoning traditions called for salt and mustards, ketchups, Worcester sauce, and marmalades. The Spanish and the Portuguese represented the first European nation states to indulge in spicy hot flavors thanks to the Moorish colonization of the Iberian Peninsula in 718. The Moors introduced peppers from Asia Iberian Kitchens as well as nutmeg, cloves, and cinnamon. By the 1470s, a newly independent Portugal established trading strong holds on the West coast of Africa and began importing African peppers to Europe through its principal port at Lisbon. Hot spices slowly made their way across Europe where they became symbols of wealth among elites in Venice, Italy. Here are Jamie Oliver piri piri chicken, dressed potatoes, rocket salad, and Portuguese tart recipes. There is a also a vegetarian piri piri dish recipe Click the links below they all look spectacular.


Piri piri chicken recipe: http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/chicken-recipes/piri-piri-chicken-dressed-potatoes-rocke


Vegetarian potato patties with a salad and piri piri sauce recipe: http://www.foodista.com/recipe/M5ZBHLZ5/vegetarian-potato-patties-with-a-salad-piri-piri-sauce


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