Today I made chili powder. I used 18 Red Anaheim peppers & 2 Red Jalapeno peppers dried in the hot sun about 7 hrs on the dash of my truck parked in the sun. I put all the sliced peppers on 3 pans. After peppers were dry I put all the peppers on 1 pan stir them around and most of the seed fall on the pan. Curly peppers are easy to pick up in 1 big wad to dump away the seeds. I hand crunched dry peppers several times a few more seeds fell off. Food processor is too slow to make fine powder but it did a nice job of making smaller pieces. High speed kitchen blender made fine powder very easy in 60 seconds. This made 3/4 cup of chili powder. Next we need to cook with chili power to test the hotness. It was interesting to see Jalapeno peppers dehydrated to almost nothing compared to Anaheim, it will be interesting to learn how much hotness comes from the 2 Jalapeno peppers. Top left corner of the rectangle pan is were sliced Jalapeno peppers were, pan looks almost empty in that location. Look at the same rectangle pan in the truck window round slices are Jalapeno top left corner. Dry Jalapeno peppers look like tiny pieces of red Styrofoam. I plan to make another 4 lbs of chili powder again this year, it is good in, chili, Mexican, stir fly, pizza sauce, etc. You can also make paprika. Red or Green chili powder. I have 4 Anaheim plants and 1 Jalapeno plant in full sun they get water every day & 6-12-12 fertilizer plus lime once a week.
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