Red Thai Bird Chili
Bird s eye chiles are small thin pointy peppers that are red when mature.
Red thai bird chili. Now that s a cool name if there ever was one. Thai chilis are about 1 inch long and either red or green. Drying the chile gives it the hook shape similar to a bird s beak. The pods range in length from 2 to 7 centimeters and the skin is smooth taut and waxy ripening from green to bright red when mature.
Bird s eye chili bird eye chili bird s chili or thai chili is a chili pepper a variety from the species capsicum annuum commonly found in ethiopia and across southeast asia it is used extensively in many asian cuisines it may be mistaken for a similar looking chili derived from the species capsicum frutescens the cultivar siling labuyo. A thin skinned chile typically found in red and green popular in numerous asian dishes. They are green when unripe but can still be eaten and are sometimes orange or purple depending on maturity. Thai curry pastes typically incorporate these chilis including their spicy seeds to create hot curries.
Thai peppers are spicy chili peppers with a wide range of heat and despite common belief there is no single type of thai pepper with at least 79 separate varieties. The chilis also are commonplace in the soup tom yum and in the popular condiment nahm prik. In the case of thai cuisine green peppers are typically used in green curries while hotter mature red peppers are used in red curries. Bird chile is the name of the dried form.
These chilies have some fire they are red when ripened like dragon s breath and their shape an inch or two in length thin and curved even look like the claws of a dragon. Red thai chile peppers vary in size and shape depending on the specific variety and are generally small conical and slender tapering to a point on the non stem end. Capsicum frutescens fruits are generally smaller. 50 000 100 000 shu capsicum annuum despite what is commonly believed there is no single thai pepper though most peppers referred to as thai are small in size and high in heat or pungency.