Eating in China
AI-generated ingredient illustration: three whole red chilies preserved in brine.

Pickled chili

泡椒Pàojiāo

Chilies preserved in wet salt brine, used whole, cut up or minced into a red pepper paste.

Type
Sauces and seasonings

A CLOSER LOOK

How to recognize it

Chilies preserved in wet salt brine, used whole, cut up or minced into a red pepper paste.

In the kitchen

Seasoning for Qianjiang chicken offal.

Thin-skinned erjingtiao peppers are one option, including dried peppers that plump up in brine; this is not necessarily the cultivar used in the Qianjiang dish.

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这道菜里有泡椒吗?

Does this dish contain Pickled chili?

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