Thursday, February 14, 2008

King Of Spices-Pepper!!

Peppercorn/Pepper/Menasu(Kannada)/Molag(Tamil)/Kalimirchi(Hindi) - Head of all Spices!!





Black pepper (Piper nigrum) is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit, which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The same fruit is also used to produce white pepper, red/pink pepper, and green pepper. Black pepper is native to South India and is extensively cultivated there and elsewhere in tropical regions. The fruit, known as a peppercorn when dried, is a small drupe five millimeters in diameter, dark red when fully mature, containing a single seed.
Pepper corns are very strong in odour and taste, used in canned foods as a flavouring agent. It is commonly used in all dishes as a very popular spice.
Medicinal value of Pepper is to cure irritation in the throat, cold and cough.It has to be prepared and used in the right proportion for appropriate effect!!



2 comments:

opinion...and a half said...

add black pepper to tea in its boiling stage for relief from sour throat during cold. or have it with tea just for the aroma!

Sujyothi said...

Hey!!Thats a great tip!!Thanks a bunch for visiting,do visit again!
Thanks
Suj