Bhut Jolokia aka chilli from hell

Also known as Ghost Pepper, Naga Morich. Legendary variety, one of the world’s hottest peppers, if not the hottest, with readings in excess of 1,000,000 Scoville units. I only use 1/8 part of this pepper for cooking. with that amount it is still HOT!
 Yesterday my father use one of this pepper and a handful of purple pepper to make" sambal belacan". I warned him that this hot pepper is really hot but he just brushed off my warning. He becomes very quiet after he taste his "sambal " . Today he tells me that it was so hot he can hardly breathe, his  lips were swollen and his tongue was on fire. He nicknamed it " the chili from hell"

Purple hot pepper

I used to have 3 species of purple hot pepper, one already extinct from my garden. One is totally dark purple and has round fruit. The other one has green leaves with a purple vein, has a tinge of purple flower and purple long tapering fruit. Both are red when ripe.

pepper plant: all purple

round fruit and beautiful purple flower

 scarlet round fruit

flower with tinge of purple

green leaf with purple vein

Today harvest

I harvest shallot shoot and amaranth today. I forgot to take the photo of the amaranth, i only realise about it after it was cooked.   So i take the photo of the plant instead.

after the cut

 In the afternoon i pulled out the young shallot shoot.

 
 This is what happened to it

in fried rice vermicelli

But i don't have a heart  to eat this one: it is too beautiful .

good contrast, red round chili surrounded by purple leaves

Hot pepper

Asian dishes wouldn't be complete without piping hot pepper  in it. I have a few varieties grown in a pot for daily use. These are various hot pepper species that i grow. It is free, easily available( pick it when i want to use it in my cooking) and it is way healthier ( no pesticide, organic and gardening is a form of exercise too).

This bird eye hot pepper is only 2 cm in length

locally known as" chili cendol" because of its long slender tapering shape

purple chili

 

round purple chili

                                         

pearly shape chili, unknown cultivar

self seeded chili from seed thrown by my mum

I have a few unknown variety in various stage of growth, will update when the fruit is ripe