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Galbanum and green chile roasting season

Sticky, glossy dark brown lump of galbanum resin on a pale background

It's chile roasting season here and every parking lot smells of charred green peppers. A friend let me smell a strip of galbanum this weekend and it was that same green, raw and bitter, from before the roast. Without the smoke, of course.

Galbanum

4 comments

juniper_jules

Galbanum is my favorite green, sharper then cut grass, almost like turpentine on a rag.

ash.and.ember

Turpentine is right. The galbanum page says it's a gum resin from Ferula plants in Iran, and that it's often cut with pine oil, so a galbanum that smells mostly of pine deserves a second sniff.

lupe.pinon

ash.and.ember wrote:

a galbanum that smells mostly of pine

Mine was all pepper, no pine. I'll take that as good news.

aroha.rain

Never had green chile but its the same green as a snapped capsicum stalk to me.