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Sichuan pepper

Also called Chinese coriander

Sichuan pepper is a spice made from fruit. Cooks dry toast it, use it to season dishes, and pair it with chili pepper.

Part used
Fruit
Family
Rutaceae
Cooked most in
Asia
Top country
China
Sichuan pepper, whole

Photo: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use Sichuan pepper

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Dry toast
  • Season

Preparing it

After drying, discard the black seeds and stems; use the husks. Use the peppercorns whole or grind them finely.

Goes well with

Cooked together

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

What Sichuan pepper is called

Names in 40 languages, from Wikidata.

  • Spanish

    pimienta de Sichuan

  • French

    poivre du Sichuan · poivre de Sichuan

  • Italian

    pepe di Sichuan

  • Portuguese

    Pimenta-de-sichuan

  • German

    Szechuanpfeffer

  • Dutch

    Szechuanpeper · Zsechuanpeper

  • Turkish

    Sichuan biberi

  • Russian

    Сычуаньский перец

  • Polish

    pieprz syczuański · Pieprz z Syczuanu

  • Arabic

    فلفل سشوان

  • Persian

    فلفل سیچوآن

  • Hebrew

    פלפל סצ'ואן

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  • Bulgarian

    Сечуански пипер

  • Cantonese

    花椒 · 川椒 · 山椒

  • Catalan

    pebre de Sichuan

  • Chinese

    四川花椒

  • Czech

    pepř sečuánský · fagara

  • Egyptian Arabic

    فلفل سيشوان

  • Esperanto

    Siĉuan-pipro

  • Estonian

    Sichuani pipar

  • Finnish

    Setsuaninpippuri · Sichuaninpippuri

  • Gujarati

    ચીરફળ

  • Hungarian

    szecsuani bors

  • Icelandic

    Sichuanpipar

  • Indonesian

    Lada sichuan

  • Japanese

    花椒 · 華北山椒 · 四川山椒

  • Javanese

    Mrica Sichuan

  • Korean

    화자오 · 사천후추 · 쓰촨후추

  • Latin

    Zanthoxyli fructus

  • Macedonian

    сечуански бибер

  • Madurese

    Sa'ang sichuan

  • Malay

    lada Sichuan

  • Malayalam

    സിഷ്വാൻ മുളക്

  • Nepali

    टिमुर

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    Sichuanpepper · Szechuanpepper

  • Romansh

    paiver da Sichuan

  • Simplified Chinese

    花椒 · 秦椒 · 川椒 · 山椒

  • Swedish

    Sichuanpeppar · Szechuanpeppar

  • Traditional Chinese

    花椒 · 秦椒 · 川椒 · 山椒

  • Ukrainian

    Сичуанський перець

  • Uzbek

    Sichuan qalampiri

  • Vietnamese

    Tiêu Tứ Xuyên

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q756800

Photos

Photo: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons