What to do with a lot dried habaneros? [closed]

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I have grown a lot of habanero chillis last year in my garden. It turns out that they are too hot for most meals I cook. Not knowing what to do with them, I dried them.

Since then, I still do not know what to cook. Do you have any ideas what to cook with the dried habaneros? I don't want to throw them away...

(I usually like chillies, and the heat)

Thank you!



Best Answer

As they're too hot, your options are reduced to dilution or donation. By the latter I simply mean giving them to a friendly chilli head who doesn't grow their own.

To dilute dried chillies, first crush them or put them through a food processor to get flakes. Then use the flakes sparingly. If you add them to oil just after frying onions etc. for a dish, the oil will absorb some of the heat and distribute it throughout the dish. This works in a wide range of dishes (pasta sauces, stir fries, chilli, curry...). Of course they'll last a long time this way, but that's OK. Store them in a glass jar with a tight lid and they'll keep for years with only a little loss of flavour.




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