In our daily life, spices enrich the taste of our lives, in our kitchen, common seasonings are soy sauce, sour vinegar, sugar, oil and salt, monosodium glutamate, chicken powder and other basic seasonings, if you usually like to cook, the pursuit of rich and diverse dishes, the kitchen will also be equipped with thirteen spices, such as star anise, guiping, pepper, pepper, grass fruit, lemongrass and so on. Rich seasonings can make the same dish make different tastes, meals are not repetitive, and life is colorful.
Different seasonings will have different tastes, use the right, the taste is very good, use the wrong, the taste of the boiled out is very strange. Pepper is like this, if you don't use it correctly, you can't achieve the purpose of seasoning. Pepper is divided into black pepper and white pepper, although only one word difference, but the use is very different, not right, the taste difference of 108,000 miles, and even spoil a pot of dishes.
Pepper is one of the most popular condiments in the world, once the most precious seasoning in ancient Europe, the previous seafaring trade, mainly trafficked pepper, so in the past the price was expensive, only the nobles can afford to eat, previously mainly used for food preservation.
In fact, black and white pepper is the fruit of the same plant, but due to the different processing process, the color is different. Picked before the pepper is ripe, boiled in hot water, the skin becomes black after drying, and the white pepper is picked after the pepper is ripe, the shell is removed, and the fruit inside is white after drying.
The main difference between black pepper and white pepper is the color and smell, the color needless to say, divided into black and white, the smell of the two is completely different, black pepper taste is more intense, black pepper shell has volatile substances, smells irritating smell. The aroma of white pepper is not so strong and light.
Black pepper and white pepper taste different, so the uses and methods are different. Black pepper aroma is more volatile, so it is not suitable for cooking for a long time, otherwise the taste will become lighter, high temperature can stimulate the aroma of black pepper, usually we eat black pepper steak, black pepper beef fillet, sometimes barbecue also use black pepper, after a short period of baking at high temperature, can stimulate the aroma of black pepper, make the meat more fragrant, but also more appetite.
White pepper flavor is relatively light, mainly stored in the fruit, the aroma is relatively mild and stable, sometimes boiled soup, but also the white pepper grinded and then used, is to make white pepper more easy to taste. Usually white pepper is mainly used to remove fishy, fresh and fragrant, usually boil fish soup, boil pork belly chicken pot, cook meat porridge, put a little white pepper to enhance the taste, especially in winter, white pepper is a little spicy, drink a bowl of soup, warm, quite comfortable.
The aroma characteristics of black pepper and white pepper are not the same, the production process is relatively different, so the usage is completely different, according to the cooking needs to use pepper, barbecue, iron plate is suitable for the use of black pepper, soup, stew suitable for the use of white pepper, completely different. Of course, sometimes it can also be mixed, and now there are some mixed grinding devices on the market, mixing 2 kinds of pepper, when using, twist the lid, grind now, very convenient.