Recipe for homemade chile powder made from fresh chiles. Learn how to dehydrate chile peppers and grind them into chile powder and custom spice blends using a dehydrator and a coffee grinder dedicated to spices.
Preserve an abundance of homegrown chiles, or buy and dry store-bought fresh chiles when they show up at the market. Some varieties of chiles can be expensive and/or hard to find, so don’t let a treasure trove of chiles go to waste.
Drying and milling chiles into chile powder is a fun and rewarding endeavor. Save jars of single-variety powders or mix them into custom blends. Get the recipe for my Homemade Taco Seasoning custom spice blend. Watch the how-to video below. This recipe was first published in my Taste of Tucson cookbook.
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.
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