La Chinata Sweet Smoked Paprika Spain DOP

Sweet Smoked Paprika  Powder, PicantePDO Product (Geographical Indication Products) 100% Natural ingredients

Spanish ‘Pimenton de la Vera’ (Paprika from La Vera) is made from fresh ripe red peppers. The peppers are dried and smoked with oak wood for two weeks, which is where it gets its incomparable aroma and taste from. The paprika is then ground several times, until its unique fine texture is obtained.

Paprika from ‘La Vera’ is like no other in the world, hence its Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) ‘Pimenton de la Vera’, which guarantees its origin, as well as the highest levels of quality. Its aroma, flavour and colour are characteristics which can only be reproduced in this area, using the traditional manufacturing process.

The ‘Sweet’ variety has a mild, yet intense flavour. Specially suited to those who are not particularly fond of hot spices. Recommended for use in fish, homemade sausages, marinades and marinades for meats and sauce, rice and soups, and is also guaranteed to add a special touch to your favourite dish. Its ZIP closure system allows optimal preservation of the organoleptic characteristics of product.

Origin: Spain

The first references to the cultivation of La Vera paprika date from the sixteenth-century, when it was cultivated in the Monastery of Yuste (Cuacos de Yuste, La Vera district) by the Hieronymite friars. Cultivation gradually spread from La Vera to neighbouring areas, the Campo Arañuelo, Valle del Ambroz and Valle del Alagón, becoming steadily more valued by farmers because of its profitability.

The industrial process for obtaining paprika began at the end of the seventeenth-century and expanded substantially in the mid-eighteenth-century. At that time the chillies were ground in water-powered flour mills located by streams. The coming of electricity to La Vera meant that electric mills could be used, leading to substantial improvements in the industry, which began to concentrate on producing paprika.

The varieties of chilli used for producing paprika are native ones belonging to the botanical species Capsicum annum L. and Capsicum longum L., the former being slightly oblate and the latter longer. The first group includes the Bola varieties-population and the second the Ocales varieties-population, also known as Agridulce de la Vera. These are very hardy varieties and very well adapted to the soil and climate of the area. Their splendid acclimatisation is the reason why they have not been replaced by varieties from elsewhere. Another important factor justifying the use of local vegetative material is that it is completely adapted to the system of drying by smoke, used in La Vera from the seventeenth-century to the present day.

The use of indigenous varieties, smoke-drying and the use of stone mills in La Vera since the seventeenth-century differentiates the paprika produced there from that produced elsewhere in the world. It has its own personality, so that the paprika produced in the north of Cáceres using the system described above is known as La Vera paprika.

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