Dried yellow chilli

Good day!

While working on some larger projects and preparing a description and pattern for the crochet shawl I’ve been working on for a while I wanted to share a fun little project with you.

I loooove these useful and tasty homegrown, dried yellow chilli peppers.

You might already have seen my canned yellow chilli peppers …

you’ll find it HERE http://www.gudruns.blog/2018/07/canned-yellow-hot-chilli-peppers-💥/

I also saved some of the chillis from my friends garden to hang dry in my kitchen.

I love making my own chilli powder or chilli flakes to use in my cooking.

Drying whole chilli peppers are easy peasy.

You just pick whole chilli grab a needle and thread and use the needle to “sew” the chilli peppers on to the thread.

I actually start by adding a small bead at the end of the string, then I add one chilli pepper at the time. I tie a loop at the end of the string and hang it in the roof of my kitchen.

I let it hang for a couple of weeks until the chilli peppers are dry.

I cut them off the string and remove the ends.

Now, if you don’t like your chilli powder too hot, cut the chilli in half lengthwise and remove most of the seeds.

Option 1:

Cut the rest of the chilli peppers in slices and add them to your blender.

Blend for a few seconds until you have desired chilli flakes.

Store in airtight glass jar.

Option 2:

Cut the dried chilli peppers in small pieces. Add it to an old fashioned coffee grinder and grind the chilli to a fine powder.

If you ever want to use your coffee grinder for coffee again please grind a couple of handfuls of coffee beans to clean out the grinder before using it to brew coffee.