Homemade chile powder from fresh chiles recipe. How to dehydrate chile peppers and grind them into chile powder and custom spice blends. Preserve an abundance of homegrown chiles, or buy and dry store-bought fresh chiles when they show up at the market.
Save jars of single-variety powders or mix them into custom blends. Some varieties of chiles can be expensive and/or hard to find, so don’t let a treasure trove of chiles go to waste using a dehydrator and a coffee grinder dedicated to spices. Watch the how-to video below.
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Servings: 20
How to dry fresh chiles and grind then into chile powders. Dry and mill fresh chiles into chili powder using a coffee grinder for grinding chiles.
Ingredients
- Fresh chiles of your choice
Instructions
- Wash chiles and cut into ¼-inch slices. (Small chiles like chiltepin can be left whole.)
- Layer them in the dehydrator. Set it to low. It will take about 12 hours for the chiles to dry thoroughly.
- Put the dried chiles in the coffee grinder and blend to a fine powder.
- Save in an airtight container for up to six months.
Video
Notes
Be sure to watch my how-to video!
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