red Sichuan pepper

Red Szechuan Pepper – Altes Gewürzamt

The red Szechuan pepper from Ingo Holland is the ideal pepper for seasoning Asian dishes. The red Szechuan pepper, also known as Chinese lemon pepper or mountain pepper, is offered by Altes Gewürzamt in its opened version. However, it should still be crushed in a spice grinder or finely chopped with a knife so that the strong, lemony taste spreads better.

Red Szechuan pepper provides the perfect seasoning for Asian cuisine. Wok dishes with beef and poultry, or even baked fish, turn out particularly authentic.

Red Szechuan Pepper – Ingo Holland Recommends

Red Szechuan pepper is a very ripe pepper harvested in China with a rust-red to rust-brown color. Red pepper is very rare because its production carries many risks. Due to the longer vegetation period, the risk of a lower harvest due to weather influences like rain or wind, or due to bird damage, which love the red, ripe, sweet fruits, increases. Even after harvesting, the effort for red pepper is significantly greater, because the drying of the fruits must proceed slowly to preserve the red color. At the same time, it must be prevented that the berries begin to rot. Therefore, the red pepper must be constantly turned during the slow drying process. An effort that many pepper farmers shy away from. If successful, however, the red pepper rewards with its distinct, sweet and spicy aroma. Please do not confuse red pepper with so-called pink pepper or pink berries.

Altes Gewürzamt – Spices without Compromise

Ingo Holland wants to inspire cooking enthusiasts with his particularly intense spices from "Altes Gewürzamt" and stimulate creative ideas. He makes no compromises regarding the quality of his ingredients, spices, peppers, herbs, and salts. His exclusive pepper varieties, such as red Szechuan pepper, should be used in very different ways, "that's why I'm reluctant to give specific application instructions," says Ingo Holland in a conversation with us. If you enjoy cooking and smelling the mixtures, you will certainly feel the same as us, and ideas will come to mind about which dish or which ingredients this mixture might taste particularly good with. The red Szechuan pepper best preserves its spiciness and aromatic flavors in the well-sealed, green Altes Gewürzamt spice jar.

Be brave and try it, but be careful: like all spices from Ingo Holland Altes Gewürzamt, the red Szechuan pepper is intense because it is of particularly good quality.