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title: "Hot pepper jam produced in Orhei: traditional recipe, health benefits and product price"
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published: 2025-11-30T09:06:00Z
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# Hot pepper jam produced in Orhei: traditional recipe, health benefits and product price

> Farmer Dumitru Lungu from the town of Orhei produces a uniquely flavored chili pepper jam, made through a traditional long-boiling process that preserves local flavors and provides health benefits during the cold season.

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Farmer Dumitru Lungu from the town of Orhei produces a uniquely flavored chili pepper jam, made through a traditional long-boiling process that preserves local flavors and provides health benefits during the cold season.

Dumitru Lungu makes jam using hot peppers grown in the Republic of Moldova, creating a *"dense, creamy, and sweet"* mixture. He explains that he only uses old cast-iron pots, having tried making it in a stainless-steel saucepan but finding that *"the taste is still not the same."*

To prepare the jam, the peppers are cleaned of seeds and boiled for between two and a half to four and a half hours, during which time *"they lose around 30% of their original mass."* Afterward, he adds a little sugar followed by *"a little bee honey."*

The farmer notes that the product has an initial sweet taste, followed by *"a spicy aftertaste,"* making it suitable for a variety of dishes. *"It combines with absolutely all kinds of meat, starting from chicken to pork, lamb, beef, cheeses, and red fish,"* says Dumitru Lungu.

He recommends consuming the jam during the cold season: *"A teaspoon of jam (...) when it enters the body, it takes away the cold."*

Approximately 15-20 kilograms of peppers yield a small amount of the final product, and a jar of hot pepper jam costs 100 lei.

The topic was discussed on the "Zi de Zi" show on Radio Moldova.

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