Chilli |
Malagueta |
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Scientific Classification |
Species: | Capsicum frutescens |
Variety: | Capsicum frutescens var. malagueta |
Heirloom
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Hybrid
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Open pol
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Synonyms |
Malagueta (Portugal)
Malagueta chilli
Malagueta pepper
Malaguetão (Brazil)
Malaguetinha (Brazil)
PI 497984
Piri-piri (Portugal & Mozambique)
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Malagueta pepper is a type of chilli used in Brazil, Portugal and Mozambique. It is heavily used in the Bahia state of Brazil. It apparently gets its name from the unrelated melegueta pepper from West Africa (Zingiberaceae).
It is a small, tapered, green pepper that turns red as it matures. It is about 5cm (2in) in length at maturity. It is a very hot pepper, with a range of 60,000 to 100,000 Scoville units (about the same as Tabasco peppers). There are two sizes seen in markets, which will sometimes have different names: the smaller ones are called malaguetinha in Brazil and piri-piri in Portugal and Mozambique, and the larger ones are called malaguetão in Brazil and malagueta in Portugal. They are not different varieties, just peppers of different maturities from the same plant.
The malagueta chile (spelled “mala”), used in Brazilian cooking, is often confused with melegueta pepper (spelled “mele”), also known as "Grains of Paradise," a cardamom-like West African spice (Aframomum melegueta, from the Zingiberaceae [ginger] family). Botanical and culinary writers have made the error of referring to the chilli as the African spice, thinking it to be one and the same. One way to avoid confusion is to refer to the former as the malagueta chilli and the latter as "melegueta pepper."
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C. frutescens | Ají caballero · Bangalore torpedo · Bird's eye chilli · Cabai burong · Kurnool · Malagueta · Megh · Piri piri · Tabasco · Thai bangkok upright · Zimbabwe bird |
C. praetermissum | Cumari |
C. pubescens | Rocoto · Rocoto canario |
Peppers by Scoville rating: · (1) 0-100 · (2) 101-500 · (3) 501-2,500 · (4) 2,501-10,000 · (5) 10,001-30,000 · (6) 30,001-50,000 · (7) 50,001-100,000 · (8) 100,001-350,000 · (9) 350,001-2,000,000 |