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- This allows peppers to be dried, ground and preserved
- Dry method for thick-meaty and thin-meated peppers:
- Thin-meated types of peppers for air drying
- Thick-meated peppers for oven, drying cupboard or dehydrator
- Dry peppers in the air
- Dry the paprika in the dehydrator
- Grind paprika into powder
- Tips & Tricks
This allows peppers to be dried, ground and preserved
Peppers, hot peppers and chilies every day in the garden? Too many to use fresh. Where to go with the pods? What could be better than drying, grinding and preserving them?
Dry method for thick-meaty and thin-meated peppers:
Thick-meated peppers can only be dried in the oven, drying ovens or dehydrators. Thin-fleshed chillies like Cayenne are also suitable for air drying. Each drying method extracts a lot of water from the pods and reduces bacteria and microorganisms. Paprika are conserved and prepared for grinding into chili powder or crushing into a coarse pizza tapper.
Thin-meated types of peppers for air drying
Thick-meated peppers for oven, drying cupboard or dehydrator
Dry peppers in the air
Pull chili pods on a stick with a needle on a string, and hang like a clothesline. Then leave to dry in warm shade at 15 ° C at the open roof window.
In chili countries such as Hungary or Mexico, peppers still dry traditionally with braided chains - Ristra tas - hanging on the wall of the house. Drying takes 3 to 6 weeks.
Dry the paprika in the dehydrator
Thick meatier types of pepper dry best in an electric dehydrator. From below, hot air blows upwards through the sieve trays. This water is removed from the chilies. It smells all over the house and with hotter paprika tears sometimes the eyes. Depending on the device and the type of chili, drying can take eight hours. If the dried pods are chilled, immediately place in an airtight tin.
Grind paprika into powder
For milder paprika or chilli powder before harvesting, remove stems, goblets and seed kernels from the pods. Then remove. Then grind the pods into powder in an electric coffee grinder. Or pound with a mortar to coarse pizza patty.
Tips & Tricks
To conserve peppers, you can put them in vinegar or oil. Or dry, grind and use as a spice. Pickled peppers are an accompaniment to meat at a barbecue party or as an appetizer.