Hot Chili pepper (Capsicum spp.) is one of the very popular spices known for their medicinal and health benefit. Chili Pepper is one of the most important spices used in preparing most local Nigerian food. It's hard to complete meal preparation with an addition of any form of pepper.

We have different types of Hot chili peppers in Nigeria.

Peppers are staple ingredients in the preparation of most Nigerian meals. See the most common peppers that are used in Nigeria.

1. Ata rodo (scotch bonnets)

This is the regular pepper we use in Nigeria. It also consists of yellow pepper. Most Scotch bonnets have a heat rating of 80,000–400,000 Scoville units.

2. Tatashe (red bell peppers)

Bell peppers are less pungent than ata rodo and are used to add colour to food. They come in red, yellow, orange and green. The green bell pepper is popularly known as green pepper.

3. Dry pepper (Piri piri/chili)

Piri piri is used to make the dry pepper that Nigerians grind. Most piri piri have a heat rating of 50,000–175,000 units.