In a blender, combine the softened chilies and bay leaf, 2 cups of water and cumin.
Tasty dishes include whole roasted branzino (fish), and linguini and clams with pancetta and hot chilies.
Braised lamb shank, spiced with freshly ground herbs and chilies is one of the menu highlights.
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The stew may include Chinese five-spice, curry powder, chilies, carrots, potatoes, daikon, fresh coconut water and beer.
The peppercorns were plentiful at every market I visited, often displayed alongside chilies, their ma la partner.
Here, star anise, cardamom, dried chilies, fennel seed, cumin and Sichuan peppercorns provide sweetness, smoke, heat and striking complexity.
Scientific research --and legend-- have attributed health wonders to chilies over the years.
The Indian pepper is the latest discovery by a fraternity of eaters who relish the sweaty, addictive pleasures of hot chilies.
The prix-fixe menu includes a starter, an entree and dessert and incorporates many New Mexico ingredients, including chilies and local wine.
Locals here in Assam and the neighboring states of Manipur and Nagaland add fresh chopped chilies to the pot when cooking curries.
But the rate of illness had no correlation with the frequency of chilies eaten, leading to speculation that other factors may be at work.
Where would German food be without the potato, Italian food without the tomato, or Thai food without chilies, all originally products of the New World?
In a dry skillet over medium heat, lightly toast the chilies.
Once only a staple of cuisine from far flung regions of the world, chilies can now be found in almost any dish around the globe.
My Sunday roast is massaged with garlic, ginger and red chilies.
Anyone who has seen Indian food being prepared has watched the blending of green and red chilies, black peppercorns and yellow turmeric into a particular curry.
When making the dressing, which takes less than one minute, Mr. Monis suggests adding extra lime juice, chilies, fish sauce or sugar to suit your palate.
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Chilies have formed part of the diet in the Americas since approximately 7, 500 BC and owe most of their fame to their sometimes unbearably spicy flavor.
New Mexico: Grocery stores, restaurants and other vendors are prohibited from claiming that their fresh chili peppers are New Mexico chilies unless they were grown in the state.
It included versions of the national mash-up, emadatse, which combines ingredients like potatoes, cheese, and rice with chilies whose heat levels range from pleasantly sinus-dilating to throat-singeing to turns-your-head-into-a-cartoon-factory-whistle.
In the neighboring states of Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat, you find children producing genetically modified seeds for such vegetables as okra, tomatoes, chilies and eggplant, in the service of Syngenta, says Venkateshwarlu.
It's a brazen, intensely flavorful dish that leaves one giddy with pleasure and reeling from the one-two punch packed by fiery chilies and Sichuan peppercorns, which produce a tingly sensation on the tongue.
Last week an Indian woman wolfed down 51 "ghost chilies, " -- the world's spiciest -- in two minutes and smeared the seeds on her eyes for an entry into the Guinness World Records.
Add to the mix Thai chilies, for heat (if you can't find Thai chilies, the more ubiquitous red chili sauce found in Asian markets makes a fine substitute), and a moderate amount of sugar, for balance, and you have a zippy vinaigrette that dresses a beautiful salad of shallots, mint, cilantro, scallions and toasted rice.
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Paul Rosin, a psychology professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who is one of the world's best-known authorities on the effects of capsaicin, has had no success in persuading rats to eat chilies, and very limited success with dogs and chimpanzees: the handful of cases where these animals did eat chilies seemed to be because of their strong relationships with human handlers.
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