It’s starting to get into the mid to low 30’s at night here in 9B. I decided to pull all the pepper plants to put in my cold weather plant seedlings. I now have 3 pounds of unripe peppers: apocalypse scorpion, Carolina reaper, death spiral, 7-pot chocolate, habanero, red ghost, chocolate Trinidad scorpion, goronong, Brazilian starfish, and one other mystery pepper.
What to do with all these? My fridge is already full of hot sauce. My thought was to smoke some, dehydrate them all, and turn them into a spicy powder. I already do this with left over ripe peppers. Or just freeze them for later.
Got any good ideas?
by Jobobzig
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I dehydrate everything I can’t process/eat in a reasonable amount of time due to surplus. There will always be a use for the powder later. Always.
Do you de-seed these before you process them?
Salsa verde
I dehydrated my last ones and crushed them up. Some were ripe and some still green. Still spicy and good mix. I didn’t bother to blend it to a fine powder like my other batches but you can. It was still really yummy. In my other batches i would add other things there like lime peel, onion, garlic, sweet peppers or herbs. I also have made sauce out of less ripe peppers and it was good.
Pepper pesto! Pass it as basil pesto and see the reactions 😉
Eat them ?
Weaponize them?
Make hot sauce, bottle it and give it away as gifts.
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Pickle them. Have fun with it. Experiment with different brines, etc.
Could make a green Sambal by chopping them up finely or blending them with salt, garlic, ginger, glutamate or shrimp paste and vinegar. If kept in the fridge and enough salt and/or vinegar is added, should last long enough