Pimiento

 ( Capsicum Cultivars ) 

A pimiento or pimento or cherry pepper is a variety of large, red, heart-shaped chili pepper ( Capsicum annuum) that measures long and wide (medium, elongate).

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Description and habitat Pimientos can have various colors including yellow, green, red, and maroon. Like most peppers, immature pods are green and develop other colors as they reach maturity.

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The flesh of the pimiento is sweet, succulent, and more aromatic than that of the red bell pepper. Some varieties of the pimiento type are hot, including the Floral Gem and Santa Fe Grande varieties.

Peppers grow in Hardiness zone 4 through 12.

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Name Spanish language and Portuguese both come from Latin ("pigment; coloring") and came to be used for . The English borrowed "pimiento" and "pimento" as for what is distinguished in Spanish as and in Portuguese as pimentão.

Note that in Jamaican English pimento usually refers to allspice ( Pimenta dioica).

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Uses "Sweet" (i.e., neither sour nor savory) pimiento peppers are the familiar red stuffing found in prepared Spanish or Greek green . Originally, the pimiento was hand-cut into tiny pieces, then hand-stuffed into each olive to balance out the olive's otherwise strong, salty flavor. Despite the popularity of the combination, this production method was very costly and time-intensive.

More recently, for ease of production, pimientos are often puréed, then formed into tiny strips with the help of a natural gum (such as sodium alginate or guar gum). This allows olive stuffing to be mechanized, speeding the process and lowering production costs. Patent description of stuffing manufacturing.

The fruits are typically used fresh as a salad ingredient, cooked, or pickled.

Pimientos are commonly used for making pimento cheese. It is also used for making pimento loaf, a type of processed sandwich meat.

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See also

• List of Capsicum cultivars

• Webster's Dictionary of the English Language – Unabridged Encyclopedic Edition, Publishers International Press, New York, 1977.

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