Chilli Powder
Fresh chillies blended with a splash of water, smeared onto parchment, dried in the dehydrator and then blitzed to a powder. Nothing added, just pure chilli, and the colour is far brighter than anything you will find in a shop-bought jar.
Yields: 16 small jars
Ingredients
- Fresh chillies, as many as you like (any variety or a mix)A small splash of water, just enough to help the blenderParchment paperA dehydratorSmall jars or shakers to store it in
Directions
- Wash the chillies and remove the stalks. Wear gloves, chilli oils linger on your fingers long after you think you’ve washed them off.Blend the chillies in a blender with a small amount of water to make a thick paste.Smear the paste thinly and evenly onto sheets of parchment paper, the thinner it is the faster and more evenly it dries.Dry in the dehydrator until the paste is completely dry and brittle, it should snap and crack off the parchment like chilli leather.Break the dried sheets up and blend again until you have a fine powder. Open the blender slowly and stand back, the chilli dust will make you cough!Pour into clean, dry jars or shakers and keep somewhere cool and dark.
Gallery
Dried chilli "leather", brittle and ready to blend. Three batches, three colours. 
Bottled up in shakers and little corked jars. 
The finished powder, up close.
Category: Spice