Homemade Ghost Pepper Powder - Recipe
Make your own spicy, homemade ghost pepper powder in your own kitchen with this recipe. All you need are ghost peppers and a dehydrator. Use it to spice up anything or make your own seasoning blends.
Servings: 3 tablespoons
Calories: 7kcal
Ingredients
- 4 ounces ghost peppers
Instructions
- Clean and dry the ghost peppers. Wearing gloves, remove the stems and slice in half lengthwise.
- Set the sliced ghost peppers onto dehydrator sheets and dehydrate at 135 degrees F (or at your dehydrator's recommended temperature) for 8 hours, or until they are completely dried through.
- Crush the dried ghost peppers in a mortar and pestle, or add them to a spice grinder and grind them to a powder.
- Sift the powder and process the remaining chunks until only a fine powder remains.
- Store in airtight containers.
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Notes
Heat Factor: HOT. These are ghost peppers, my friends! They measure in at over 1 Million Scoville Heat Units. That's quite hot! These are the original superhots.
Enjoy the powder!
Nutrition
Calories: 7kcal | Carbohydrates: 1g | Sodium: 1mg | Potassium: 66mg | Vitamin A: 140IU | Vitamin C: 30.4mg | Calcium: 4mg | Iron: 0.1mg