Pili-Pili Zucchini--Oww Hot!
"I love hot food and this has caused me to become addicted to zucchini. Here in France, while rummaging around my cupboard, I found a bottle of spice marked "Piments de langue d'oiseau--Pili-Pili). I said hmm, looks like paprika, and threw a whole bunch on my zucchini. Turns out pili pili is sorta hot. But, boyyyyy, is it good! I have no idea what this would be in America or if you can even get it, so you could probably sub a mix of hot paprika and cayenne. But pili pili, which is from Africa and just means "pepper pepper" is the best. *NOTE* I do not measure when I cook. So this is just guesstimated for the 'Zaar computer. I go 1 zucchini per person (small zucchini, not the baseball bats!) and however hot you want it."
photo by Bergy
- Ready In:
- 8mins
- Ingredients:
- 4
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 4 zucchini, sliced thinly
- 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper (OK, not cayenne, but the computer doesn't recognize pili-pili)
- pepper
directions
- Heat olive oil in non-stick pan.
- Dump in zucchini.
- Sprinkle with pili-pili and pepper. Toss.
- Run and get a kleenex to wipe your nose and eyes from the wildly hot fumes given off by the cooking zucchini.
- You can even open a window.
- When zucchini are tender/goldeny, remove and enjoy with just about anything.
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Reviews
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It is hot but we loved it. I can't get Pili-Pili so I used Peri-Peri same thing very very hot spice. I only lightly sprayed the pan and cooked the zucchini for minutes so they were still heated through but firm Easy recipe and Mmm Hot
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I am a graduate student living, teaching, and studying in France for a year. I love cooking, especially baking, but I don't agree with all that jazz about how you need to be SOOOO careful with your ingredients and measuring and all that when baking. If I were making a millefeuille, yeah, I'd be freaked, but cookies and cakes and muffins are no biggie. Who cares if you don't beat it exactly two minutes? Argh, renegade cook!
I have a very beaten, battered copy of Jane Garmey's fab Great British Cooking, although I just cannot bring myself to do the lard recipes (like half the book!). It really rocks, though.
I love languages and I hate it when people think they are hot stuff in another language (I'm talking to YOU, Alex Trebeck!!!) but aren't. Actually I just dislike pretentious people altogether. That includes YOU, yes YOU, the American Tourist who bumps into me (American Incognita) on the streets of Paris (which is in FRANCE, remember) and says "Sorry." Sorry? Couldn't we just say Pardon with a French accent? geesh. Also, yelling in English at people does not comprehension make.
I also have a major celeb crush on Anthony Bourdain. I think it's that whole bad-boy good-girl thing. Plus he's half-French. And majorly witty. Am on the lookout for him, but he's probably reclining in a palm frond beach chair in Tahiti filming an episode. Sigh.
