Smoked Paprika

Paprika

Paprika is a spice made from dried and ground red peppers, Capsicum annuum. It is traditionally made from Capsicum annuum varietals in the Longum group, and while it can have varying levels of heat, the peppers used tend to be milder and have thinner flesh than those used to produce chili powder. The milder, sweet paprika is mainly composed of the fruit of the pepper with most of the seeds removed; whereas some seeds and stalks are retained in the peppers used for hotter paprika.

Smoking (cooking)

Smoking is the process of flavoring, browning, cooking, or preserving food, particularly meat, fish and tea, by exposing it to smoke from burning or smoldering material, most often wood.

smoked

Adjective

1. Of food, treated with smoke, often for flavor or as a method of preservation.
2. Of glass, tinted.

Verb

1. simple past and past participle of smoke

paprika

Noun

1. Powdered spice made from dried and ground fruits of sweet pepper (bell pepper) or chili pepper (cultivars of Capsicum annuum), or mixtures of these (used especially in Hungarian cooking).
2. A variety of the spice.

Adjective

1. Of a bright reddish orange colour, like that of the dried paprika.