Dehydrated Hot Fermented Pepper Powder


powdered fermented hot pepper in a small bowl

Everyone who likes hot food has a stash of their favorite ground hot pepper powder.  Whether it is cayenne, chillies or serrano it is used to add a little heat to anything and everything.  Well here is another one to try.  You can use any type of pepper, lacto-ferment it, dehydrate them until they are crispy and then process them into a powder using a blender, or coffee grinder.  

Equipment:

  • Silicone pad
  • Food dehydrator
  • Blender or coffee grinder
  • Spice jar

Ingredients:

  • Fermented hot peppers of your choice

Instructions:

Spread the fermented peppers onto the silicone pad

Place the silicone pad on top of the dehydrator rack and put it into the dehydrator

 Dehydrate at 150℉ (65℃) until they are very dry (24-48 hours)

Dehydrated Jalapinos on a silicone pad

Remove them from the dehydrator and powder them in the blender or coffee grinder

Dehydrated hot pepper powder in a small bowl

Spoon into the spice jar and keep it handy for your next spicy recipe

Michael Grant

Mike has been an enthusiast of fermentation for over ten years. With humble beginnings of making kombucha for himself to the intricacies of making miso, vinegar and kefir. He makes a wide variety of fermented foods and drinks for his own consumption and family and friends. Being a serial learner he began experimenting with a wide variety of fermented products and learning widely from books, online from content and scientific studies about fermentation, its health benefits, how to use fermented food products in everyday life and the various techniques used to produce them both traditionally and commercially. With a focus on producing his own fermented products in an urban environment with little access to garden space he began Urban Fermentation to help others who want to get the benefits of fermentation in their lives. He provides a wide variety of content covering fermented drinks like kombucha and water kefir, milk kefir and yogurt, vinegar production and lacto-fermentation such as pickles, sauerkraut for those who have to rely on others for food production. With an insatiable hunger to know more about fermentation from all nations and cultures he also has learned to make natto, miso and soy sauce, with more to come as the body of knowledge about fermentation is constantly expanding and becoming more popular as time passes.

Recent Posts