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Chili powder

Also called chilli powder, powdered chili and chile powder

Chili powder is a spice made from dried, ground chili pepper fruit. Cooks use it to season food.

  • Plant-based
  • Gluten-free
  • No listed allergens

About the plain ingredient, not packaged products; general information, not medical advice. Details

Made from
Chili pepper
Part used
Fruit
Cooked most in
Asia, The Americas
Top country
Indonesia
Chili powder, whole

Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use chili powder

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Season

Nutrition

What 100 g of chili powder holds

Per 100 g. Averages from USDA; real values vary by variety, season and growing conditions.

Protein 17%Fat 18%Carbohydrate 64%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of chili powder
Energy282 kcal · 1,179 kJ
Protein13 g
Fat14 g
of which saturated2.5 g
Carbohydrate50 g
of which sugars7.2 g
Fibre35 g
Sodium2,867 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of chili powder: minerals and vitamins
Potassium1,950 mg
Calcium330 mg
Iron17 mg
Magnesium149 mg
Zinc4.3 mg
Vitamin C0.7 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)1,483 µg
Folate28 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171319), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where chili powder is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use chili powder. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list chili powder among their ingredients.

Origins

  1. 1894 · United States

    Gebhardt made the first commercial chili powder using imported ancho peppers.

On the table

Dishes made with chili powder

4 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Dengke Mas Naniura

    Indonesia

  • Efó

    Brazil

  • Sie reuboh

    Indonesia

  • Cimol

    Indonesia

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chili powder.

Good to know

Diet and allergens: chili powder in detail

These notes describe the plain ingredient. Packaged and prepared products vary, so read the label; for allergies and medical diets ask a doctor or dietitian.
Allergens
None of the 15 listed allergens foundChecked and not found: soy, eggs, fish, milk, lupin, wheat, celery, sesame, mustard, peanuts, molluscs, sulphites, tree nuts, crustaceans, gluten cereals.
Animal origin
No animal ingredients foundChecked and not found: egg, fish, meat, dairy, honey, insect, gelatin, poultry, bone char, shellfish, other animal, animal fining, animal rennet.
Gluten
None
Alcohol
None
Caffeine
None
Pork
None

Family

Related forms

Made from
chili pepper (dried, ground)

Cooked together

Ingredients that go into the same catalogued dishes.
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Around the world

What chili powder is called

Names in 38 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    chile en polvo

  • French

    Chili · Chili (Mélange D'épices) · Chili (melange d'epices) · Chili (mélange d'épices)

  • Italian

    peperoncino in polvere · chili · polvere di chili · chili in polvere

  • German

    Chilipulver · Chilipfeffer · Chili-Pulver · Chili Powder

  • Dutch

    chilipoeder

  • Russian

    молотый перец чили · перец чили молотый · молотый чили

  • Arabic

    مسحوق الفلفل

  • Persian

    پودر چیلی

  • Hebrew

    פלפל חריף טחון

  • Bangla

    লঙ্কাগুঁড়া

  • Tamil

    மிளகாய்ப் பொடி

  • Chinese

    辣椒粉

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  • Albanian

    pluhur djegës

  • Cantonese

    辣粉

  • Central Kurdish

    تۆزی چیلی

  • Czech

    mleté chilli

  • Danish

    chilipulver

  • Esperanto

    ĉilia pulvoro

  • Estonian

    tšillipulber

  • Finnish

    chilijauhe

  • Hausa

    Chili foda

  • Hungarian

    csilipor · chilipor · porított csili · porított chili

  • Indonesian

    Cabai bubuk

  • Irish

    púdar chili

  • Japanese

    チリパウダー

  • Javanese

    Bubuk lombok

  • Korean

    고춧가루

  • Latin

    Pulvis capsici

  • Latvian

    čili pulveris · malti čili pipari

  • Malay

    Serbuk cili

  • Malayalam

    മുളക് പൊടി

  • Marathi

    तिखट

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    chilipulver

  • Punjabi

    ਮਿਰਚ ਪਾਊਡਰ

  • Slovenian

    čili v prahu · čilijev prah

  • Swedish

    chilipulver

  • Telugu

    కారం పొడి · కారం గుండ

  • Vietnamese

    Bột ớt

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q1072946

Photos

Photo: Ajay Suresh from New York, NY, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons