Preserving chili peppers to enhance its flavor

Is there a simple yet quickest way to preserving chili peppers? There are number of methods and few are quite effective.

Depending on where you come from, everybody has its own way of preserving them, and for some people in different parts of the world it is a delicacy.

Who doesn’t like eating chili peppers? I love them eating both fresh mix them with salt, pepper, garlic, and lime, eat them while you are having grilled fish, fantastic! What about dried chili? Even better!

I think the hot and spicy feeling is just amazing, because when you are having dried chili pepper you will get more intense flavor and unique fragrance.

I think will gives you another sensation when eating them.

When you have grilled chicken wings, try to add some dry peppers as seasoning and feel the differences, nothing can beat the taste.

The downside of having chili peppers in your dish is that they tend to get spoil quickly, and it is a bad thing to eat. I got stomach ache from eating spoiled chili peppers, but it never stops me to keep eating them, because I grew up with it and cannot imagine living without them.

One way to preserving chili peppers is by canning, but this requires a lot more work to do. There is a much simpler way to do it.

By simply remove the stem and seed before sun drying them outside or using oven. By doing so you can remove any excess liquids and keeping those from getting spoil much longer. When preserving Serrano pepper for instance, you need to wait till they turn red.

When it completely dry you can place them inside a jar, try to fit them as many as you can so there will be almost no air in between. Store the jar in a dry and cool space. If you doing it properly it can last for up to one year, nice isn’t it?

You can also make chili powder out of dried chili peppers, just put them in the food processor and done. Use them as a spice in your dish, almost any dish you could possibly imagine, and get the new unique flavors.

Ancho chili powder

Chili powder are most suitable in almost every dish, from grilled meats, stew, soups, or mix them with dipping sauces. This is my version of cook to perfection, no chili; something is missing as simple as that.

If you are looking for chili flavor but cannot stand the heat then ancho chili powder is the one for you.

It is still a member of capsicum family, and I think best using them on barbeque.

They are quite popular in Mexico, and found in almost every traditional Mexican dishes such as tamales.

You can easily create ancho chili powder by grinding dried ancho chili peppers. It has rather mild hotness or heat, but at the same time providing all those great chili flavors.

What is the hottest chili pepper in the world?

When eating chili peppers most people would look for different spiciness and hot levels, I guess. But for some folks it is quite a challenge to taste one of the hottest chili on earth.

Ladies and gentlemen, beware the naga jolokia, it is from India, some believe it could be the hottest chili pepper in the world, I wonder how it taste like?

Perhaps at certain point I still can eat them providing there is a bottle of cold water ready nearby. But problem is would my stomach stand the heat?

I don’t know, but there are people in this planet are used to eat this monster, wonder how they feel? Another name of this naga jolokia is the ghost pepper also known as the bhut jolokia. See how scary it is by just saying its name? It makes me more curious to taste them. Have you?

In year 2007 the guinnes book of records have listed in their database that this naga jolokia was confirmed to be the hottest chili pepper on earth, can you imagine that?

Habanero chili pepper

Now enough with the scary thing let’s go back to probably all time favorite, the habanero chili pepper. For people who ever ate habanero they would agree that its has the most spicy taste of all its relatives.

They come in various colors and variety, but perhaps the most common ones are red and orange, it has rather smooth skin surface and it will turns green before it get ripe. Their origin and are popularly used in Cuban dishes, because it is widely available in Havana, Cuba.

Chili pepper recipes

Here are the list of interesting sites that shares the best chili pepper recipe in the world. There are tons of them out there, you might want to take a look and try to cook them. If you have a recipe of your own please share with us.