Piri Piri (also Peri Peri, Bird’s Eye) is African pepper essential in Portuguese-African cuisine. Rating 50,000-175,000 SHU offers very hot heat. These small peppers pack intense punch. Essential for making piri piri sauce. The heat is sharp and immediate. C. frutescens species gives unique flavor. Very important in Mozambican and Angolan cuisines. Popular in Portuguese cooking. The name means ‘pepper pepper’ in Swahili. Spread by Portuguese traders. Now famous worldwide.

Very hot, sharp

African cuisine, piri piri sauce