🌶️ Golden Greek Pepperoncini – The famous pepper in kebabs and Mediterranean dishes!

The Golden Greek Pepperoncini (Capsicum annuum) is a delicious, mildly spicy chili pepper that is especially known for its use in Greek and Mediterranean cuisine.

Do you know those delicious, slightly sour peppers that you often get with a kebab, döner or a Greek dish? Then the chances are that you have already eaten a Pepperoncini!

These peppers are usually harvested green to yellow-green and then pickled in vinegar or brine. This gives them their well-known fresh, slightly acidic flavor and pleasant spiciness. Although they are often eaten green, the fruits turn a beautiful red color when fully ripe.

The Golden Greek Pepperoncini forms beautiful, elongated, slightly wrinkled fruits that are usually somewhat curved. The plants are also particularly prolific and can produce a large amount of peppers throughout the season.

The rich fruit yield was also evident in our own cultivation. The plants bear both green and fully ripe red peppers, making them particularly attractive in the garden or on the terrace.

Thanks to their mild spiciness, these peppers are ideal for those who like to add a bit of extra flavor to their dishes without it becoming extremely hot right away.

🌶️ Characteristics

• Type: Capsicum annuum
• Provenance: Greek pepperoncini-type
• Pithiness: about 100–1,000 SHU (mild)
• Fruit length: usually about 5–10 cm
• Color: green/yellow-green → red
• Shape: elongated, slightly wrinkled and sometimes curved
• Flavor: mild, fresh and slightly sweet, with a gentle spiciness
• Plant size: usually about 60–90 cm, depending on the growing conditions
• Productivity: highly productive
• Usage: Meats, salads, kebabs, döner, pizza, antipasti and Mediterranean dishes

🌱 Cultivation information

• Seeding: February–March indoors
• Root temperature: 22–26 °C
• Expensive: usually 7–21 days
• Planting out: after the ice saints, when there is no longer any chance of frost at night
• Pitch: sunny, warm and sheltered
• Harvest: usually July–October, depending on weather conditions
• Cultivation: Suitable for greenhouses, open ground and large pots on the terrace
• Seeds: Open Pollinated

The Golden Greek Pepperoncini is a relatively easy-to-grow chili pepper that is also interesting to beginners in the chili world.

By regularly harvesting fruits, you stimulate the plant to develop new flowers and peppers.

🍴 Culinary applications – The ideal seasoning pepper!

The Golden Greek Pepperoncini is especially popular as a seasoning pepper.

For the typical peperoncini that you get with kebabs or Greek dishes, the fruits are usually harvested when they are still green to light yellow-green.

They are then soaked in a mixture of vinegar, water, salt and, if desired, herbs. This gives them their characteristic fresh, slightly acidic flavor.

They are delicious with:

• 🥙 Kebabs, döner and pita dishes
• 🥗 Greek salads and cold dishes
• 🍕 Pizza and Mediterranean dishes
• 🫒 Antipasti and tapas
• 🥪 Sandwiches and sandwiches
• 🍽️ As a spicy pepper in meat and grill dishes

Also fully ripe, when the fruits have turned red, they can be eaten fresh or processed.

🌶️ DG Seeds & Plants – Special chili peppers, directly from our own cultivation!