Fresh
- Product
- Sweet peppers of three local types
Senise Pepper
Peperoni di Senise PGI are sweet, thin-fleshed peppers from a defined area of Basilicata, sold fresh, dried or ground.
- Protection
- PGI
- Region
- Basilicata
- Characteristics
- Sweet, thin-fleshed peppers
Forms and local types
Dried
- Product
- Whole peppers, loose or in strings
Ground
- Product
- Ground dried peppers
Strings and drying racks
Peppers for drying are picked as their color turns from green to red through full purple-red ripeness. They may be strung through the stalks or laid on racks, then dried with indirect sunlight or in ventilated rooms. The dried peppers may also be ground.
Try it in the kitchen
Use fresh peppers as a vegetable side dish, or let the ground dried form season a dish of potatoes. The specification recognizes pointed, hook-tipped and blunt-tipped local types.
Recognize the protected name
For a purchase tied to this origin, look for the full name “Peperoni di Senise” with the PGI indication. A similar name or variety alone does not establish this protected origin.
