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- From: sdg@wag.caltech.edu (Siddharth Dasgupta)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,rec.food.cooking
- Subject: Capsaicin and hotness of chiles
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 16:29:26 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
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- Would anyone know why the afterburn from eating really hot chile
- or food occurs? I do not mean the endorphin high that follows
- immediately, but the slower more painful one the next morning
- on the opposite end. Sorry for picking a topic that may not
- be entirely palatable to all...
-
- Here is a recipe for Chile Chicken from Bengal:
-
- 4 split chicken breasts, skinned, boned and cut into
- bite sized pieces
-
- 1 medium onion - pureed
- 1" piece of ginger, peeled and pureed with the onion
- 4 Thai chiles, cut into rings (and seeded if less heat
- is desired)
- splash of vinegar
- 1/4 cup oil for frying
- 1/4 tsp turmeric
- salt to taste
-
- 1. Prick the chicken pieces with a fork. Marinate them in the
- onion ginger paste with the splash of vinegar, overnight or at
- least for 8 hours.
- 2. Heat oil in wok. Shake excess marinade from chicken pieces
- and fry in hot oil till lightly brown. Set aside on a paper
- towel.
- 3. After all chicken pieces are done, put marinade in the oil
- and add turmeric and salt. Cook until the oil separates from
- the paste. Put the chicken back into the wok, stir to coat,
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- Siddharth Dasgupta (sdg@wag.caltech.edu) (818) 397-2725
- Materials & Molecular Simulation Center, Beckman Institute, CALTECH,Pasadena
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