PEPPADEW® is not just famous for its piquanté pepper. It’s a whole lot more – encompassing a range of products that are always world-class quality, delicious, and ideal additions to a vast array of meal options. The fame of the fabulous PEPPADEW® piquanté pepper that has delighted consumer palates around the world since 1995 has contributed to the conviction that the PEPPADEW® is the piquanté pepper. But PEPPADEW® is the brand – and the PEPPADEW® product range extends way beyond the first sweet and very zesty, little red piquanté pepper.
We recently had the opportunity to paint the town red with PEPPADEW® at NCW restaurant in Melville. Each course included something from the PEPPADEW® range.
The evening started off with fantastic canapes that included sardines with noodles and PEPPADEW® Hot Piquante Pepper chilli mayo, nachos with cheese and beer dip and PEPPADEW® Hot Jalapeno dip, and mouth-watering macarons with a guacamole and white chocolate ganache and PEPPADEW® Milk Piquante Peppers.
The bread course was just as delicious – PEPPADEW® Atchar cornbread.
For starters, we enjoyed a grilled sweetcorn soup with PEPPADEW® Brown Pickled Onion and PEPPADEW® Piquante Pepper ice cream. This was followed with squid ink gnocchi with clams, rouille with PEPPADEW® Hot Piquante Peppers, saffron veloute, brussels sprouts and asparagus.
Mains was a feast for the senses – a mouth-watering lamb tagine served with PEPPADEW® Hot Mango Atchar, PEPPADEW® Milk Piquante Peppers and cous cous.
Dessert (our favourite course) was a fantastic combination of sponge cake, with PEPPADEW® Mild Piquante Pepper infused roast pears, PEPPADEW® Mild Piquante Pepper and pear puree and salted caramel ice cream.
Bellies filled with all things delicious, we were treated to one final course, the cheese! Matured asiago served with fresh asiago, PEPPADEW® Hot Piquante Pear macerated peached and toasted almonds.
Every course was paired with a wonderful wine, rounding off the menu perfectly.
The PEPPADEW® range incorporates 27 mouth-watering products such as jalapeño variants – hot or mild, slices, cones or halves; mango and vegetable atchars – hot or mild; pickled onions – hot or mild, light or dark; a selection of pasta sauces that includes green pepper and garlic, piquanté pepper and garlic, piquanté pepper and olive, tomato and jalapeño, and tomato and basil; relishes – hot and mild piquanté pepper, jalapeño and ginger, and hamburger; and hot and mild piquanté pepper splash-on™ sauces.
The flagship products in the PEPPADEW® offering remain the much-loved range of sweet piquanté pepper products, known for their fresh and crunchy texture, sweet taste, vibrant red colour, excellent quality, and amazing versatility, and include mild and hot, whole, chopped, and slices, and the ‘stand at the open fridge and fill your mouth’ sweet piquanté peppers filled with cream cheese.
There is no day that doesn’t deserve a PEPPADEW® zing – breakfast, lunch, or dinner, and any in-between snack. From sandwiches, pastas and pizzas, to stews and soups, grilled, fried, or roasted chicken, fish, beef, lamb, pork, or game, salads and vegetables, and braais and potjies, the options are endless.
Imka Webb is a freelance digital marketing expert and the digital editor of Food & Home Entertaining magazine. www.imkawebb.com
