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Paprika

Capsicum

Paprika is a spice made from fruit, seeds, and stems. Cooks use it as a garnish and in stews, and pair it with onion and meat.

Part used
Fruit, seed, stem
Family
Solanaceae
Cooked most in
Europe, Africa, The Americas
Top country
Hungary
Paprika, prepared

Photo: Gnu-Bricoleur · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use paprika

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Garnish
  • Stew

Goes well with

Nutrition

What 100 g of paprika holds

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

Protein 17%Fat 16%Carbohydrate 67%of the macronutrients by weight

Nutrition per 100 g of paprika
Energy282 kcal · 1,181 kJ
Protein14 g
Fat13 g
of which saturated2.1 g
Carbohydrate54 g
of which sugars10 g
Fibre35 g
Sodium68 mg
Cholesterol0 mg
Nutrition per 100 g of paprika: minerals and vitamins
Potassium2,280 mg
Calcium229 mg
Iron21 mg
Magnesium178 mg
Zinc4.3 mg
Vitamin C0.9 mg
Vitamin A (RAE)2,463 µg
Folate49 µg

Source: USDA FoodData Central (food 171329), public domain. Minerals and vitamins are listed only where USDA measured a non-zero amount.

Around the world

Where paprika is cooked

10 dishes in the catalogue use paprika. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

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

Origins

  1. The 1600s

    Industrial production of paprika began near the end of the 17th century.

  2. The 1920s · Europe

    Until the 1920s, Central European paprika was hot; a breeder then developed plants with sweet fruit.

On the table

Dishes made with paprika

9 of the 10 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

  • Hallaca

    Venezuela

  • Goulash

  • Jallullo

    Spain

  • Düğün çorbası

    Türkiye

  • Paprikash

    Hungary

  • Taktouka

    Morocco

  • Gulyásleves

    Hungary

  • Lomo en adobo

  • Polbo á feira

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

Cooked together

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

What paprika is called

Names in 71 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    pimentón · ají de color · paprika · páprica

  • French

    paprika

  • Italian

    paprica · paprika

  • Portuguese

    páprica · colorau

  • German

    Paprika · Paprikapulver

  • Dutch

    paprikapoeder

  • Greek

    πάπρικα

  • Turkish

    Kırmızı biber

  • Russian

    паприка

  • Polish

    papryka

  • Arabic

    بابريكا · البابريكا · ببريكة · الببريكة

  • Persian

    پاپریکا

Show all 71 languages

  • Afrikaans

    paprika

  • Albanian

    piper i kuq · spec i kuq

  • Aragonese

    pimentón

  • Armenian

    պապրիկա

  • Asturian

    pimentón

  • Azerbaijani

    paprika

  • Bangla

    পাপরিকা · মিষ্টি লাল মরিচ গুঁড়া

  • Basque

    piperrauts

  • Belarusian

    папрыка

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    папрыка

  • Brazilian Portuguese

    páprica

  • Breton

    paprika

  • Bulgarian

    червен пипер

  • Cantonese

    紅甜椒粉

  • Catalan

    pebre roig · piment vermell · pebre vermell · pebre bord

  • Cebuano

    paprika

  • Chinese

    辣椒粉 · 烟熏红椒

  • Czech

    paprika · paprika (koření)

  • Danish

    paprika

  • Egyptian Arabic

    بابريكا

  • Esperanto

    papriko

  • Extremaduran

    pimentón

  • Filipino

    Paprika

  • Finnish

    paprika

  • Galician

    pemento

  • Georgian

    პაპრიკა

  • Hausa

    Paprika

  • Hebrew

    פפריקה

  • Hindi

    पपरिका

  • Hungarian

    fűszerpaprika-őrlemény · fűszerpaprikapor · paprikapor

  • Ido

    papriko

  • Indonesian

    paprika

  • Japanese

    パプリカ · パプリカパウダー

  • Javanese

    Paprika

  • Kannada

    ಪಪ್ರಿಕಾ

  • Korean

    파프리카 가루

  • Kurdish (Latin)

    îsot

  • Ladino

    paprika

  • Latin

    Paprica

  • Latvian

    paprika · paprikas pulveris

  • Macedonian

    црвен пипер

  • Malay

    paprika

  • Malayalam

    പാപ്രിക

  • Min Nan Chinese

    hiam-kiuⁿ-á-hún

  • Nepali

    पेपरिका

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    paprika

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    paprika

  • Pampanga

    paprika

  • Romanian

    boia

  • Scots

    paprika

  • Serbian

    паприка

  • Serbian (Cyrillic)

    паприка · паприка у праху

  • Simplified Chinese

    烟熏红椒

  • Simplified Chinese (China)

    烟熏红椒

  • Slovak

    paprika

  • Slovenian

    paprika

  • Swedish

    paprikapulver

  • Tajik

    паприка

  • Thai

    ปาปริก้า

  • Traditional Chinese

    煙燻紅椒

  • Ukrainian

    паприка

  • Uzbek

    Paprika

  • Vietnamese

    Paprika

  • Waray

    Paprika

  • Welsh

    Paprica

Sources and credits

Data

Wikidata item: Q3127593

Photos

Photo: Gnu-Bricoleur · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons