chili powder and Paprika powder?
Just got a bottle of paprika chili powder bottle from America .What is the different between chili powder and Paprika powder
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Just got a bottle of paprika chili powder bottle from America .What is the different between chili powder and Paprika powder
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Paprika is a style of pepper powder of which there are four sub types: sweet, hot (picante), smoked and not smoked. Most of what is sold here is sweet Hungarian. If it's fresh, it has a lot of flavor. If it's old, it tastes like red dust. The Spanish Pimentón de la Vera (paprika from the Vera region), is dried over smoke. If the paprika was actually grown in the U.S., it's likely a dark red, very sweet variety.
Chile powders here are either sold by the name of a specific chile (chipotle, cayenne, etc.) or, if the label reads simply "Chili Powder", it's a mixture of ancho and maybe other chiles, cumin, garlic, oregano and other spices. Most of these mixtures are very mild for American tastes.
Basically, they both have distinct flavors and most often cannot be interchanged in recipes. even the different types of paprika are distinct from one another, as are different types of chili powder. i would experiment with a few to see what I am talking about.