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vegetablesweet · roasted · jammy · smoky · fruity

Red pepper

A green pepper that stayed on the plant long enough to stop complaining.

on its own
1.0sour
3.0sweet
1.0savoury
0.0bitter
2.0umami
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2 of these 16 are wild — theory says yes, nobody has cooked them. why →

16 pairings for Red pepper.

It is the same fruit, dried and smoked. You are stacking one flavour.

Garlic

common

Raw sulfur against roasted sugar; the sweetness needs the bite.

Roast concentrates the sugar. Acid is the only way back.

Olive oil

common

Store the peeled strips under oil; they get better for a week.

Egg

common

Sweet strips folded into a soft omelette need no other seasoning.

Chorizo

common

Roasted pepper sweetness meets the dried pepper already in the cure.

Anchovy

common

Sugar plus salt on toast. The oldest tapa going.

Feta

uncommon

Brine curd against jammy flesh; roast the pepper whole first.

Cumin

uncommon

Earth under fruit. It stops the pepper reading like jam.

Hazelnut

uncommon

Roast pyrazines in both; the nut adds body the pepper has none of.

Mole logic: bitter cocoa gives the sweet pepper a floor to stand on.

Shared furaneol. Roast the pepper, macerate the fruit, dress with vinegar.

Oyster

wild

Sweet-mineral against saline; the pepper juice works as the mignonette.