Jalapeños, | Imamother

Maryann

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 3:34 pm

Hi
I made a fish recipe with jalapeños for fri night and I forgot to fry the jalapeños with the onions and garlic

So I just added them on top after adding the fish [ before it. Cooked]

The fish was not spicy at all!!! This is my first time cooking with fresh jalapeños

Does anyone know why it wasn't spicy? Do they have to be fried to bring out the flavor? What did u do wrong??

Cheiny

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 3:43 pm

Maryann wrote:

Did you remove the inside seeds? That’s where the spiciness comes
From.

ra_mom

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 3:45 pm

Were the Jalapeño slices spicy and just the fish wasn't spicy?

egam

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 3:45 pm

Jalapeños are not always have the same spicyness. It’s very well possible that yours weren’t.

MiriFr

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 3:52 pm

Capsaicin is what makes jalapeños hot. Once you cook a jalapeño, the capsaicin gets cooked out, so it’s not spicy anymore. Frying it first wouldn’t make a difference.

Maryann

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:18 pm

Yes I removed the seeds was I supposed to keep tjem.in?

Can it be that I happened to have bought a pk that wasn't hot?

Maryann

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:18 pm

MiriFr wrote:

Capsaicin is what makes jalapeños hot. Once you cook a jalapeño, the capsaicin gets cooked out, so it’s not spicy anymore. Frying it first wouldn’t make a difference.

So why wasn't my fish spicy?

Maryann

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:19 pm

ra_mom wrote:

Were the Jalapeño slices spicy and just the fish wasn't spicy?

Nothing was spicy

ra_mom

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:20 pm

Maryann wrote:

Nothing was spicy

It was the Jalapeños. They just weren't spicy. You can taste them before you start using them in a recipe.

Maryann

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:21 pm

ra_mom wrote:

It was the Jalapeños. They just weren't spicy. You can taste them before you start using them in a recipe.

Ok.thanks everyone !! I cam always rely on you!!!

MiriFr

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:41 pm

Maryann wrote:

So why wasn't my fish spicy?

Wait. You cooked the jalapeños or you didn’t cook them?
If you did, then the capsaicin cooked out.
If you didn’t, then your jalapeños didn’t have enough capsaicin in them to begin with LOL

Jalapeño

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:41 pm

Just saying hi!

(Also I've found what everyone else said about sometimes just not being spicy to be true.)

Maryann

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 4:56 pm

Yes I did add the jalapeños
But last instead of frying them with onions and garlic
I cleaned out the seeds

And my fish was not spicy at all!

bobeli

Sat, Dec 05 2020, 5:00 pm

The spicy doesn’t cook out, if the jalapeño is spicy and you put it in a dish the dish will be spicy.
The seeds and veins are spicier than the green part so you can take out as much as you need if the jalapeño is too spicy.