Lovely fresh hot flavour

The beauty of growing your own peppers is that at harvest time you will end up with lots and lots of peppers.

Making your own hot pepper paste is a great way of storing them and then using them in your cooking.

Much better than buying dried spices

But the key advantage is that making your own hot pepper paste is a much more flavourful alternative than using dried spices. In addition to the added heat it will also give you a much more fresher flavour.

How to make hot pepper paste

You will need the following:

Ingredients

• 1 kg Habanero peppers Or Jalapeno
• 60 g Sea salt
• 1 tbsp Vinegar

Equipment

• Kitchen gloves – Very important !!!!!!
• Chef’s knife
• Food mill
• Resealable Storage Jars
• Saucepan and lid

Instructions

• Cut the peppers length-ways and remove the seeds (Make sure you wear gloves)
• Add the peppers to saucepan
• Add water so that the peppers float, bring to the boil add the saucepans lid
• Simmer for 10 minutes and then remove the lid
• Bring back to the boil, and boil for 1 minute
• Replace lid and let cool for 30 minutes
• Scoop the peppers into a blender – optionally adding other ingredients (see notes below)
• Blend to a paste
• Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar and stir
• 3 Ways to Store the Paste – see the notes below

Video

I haven’t come round to making my own video yet showing how to make hot pepper paste – and will be adding it soon.

The video below uses slightly different ingredients but the process is the same.

3 Ways to Store Hot Pepper Paste

Option 1 – Ambient

• This way it can be stored at ambient temperature, in a dark cupboard.
• You will need small resealable glass jars, which need to be sterilised.
• Preheat the oven to 160 to 180°C
• Wash the jars and lids in hot soapy water. Rinse the jars but do not dry them
• Put the jars on a baking tray and put in the oven for 10 minutes
• At the same time soak the lids in boiling water for a few minutes. Take the jars from the oven and let cool on a kitchen towel.
• Spoon the paste into the jars and cover with olive oil
• Leave to stand for 2 months before using

Option 2 – Chilled in a Fridge

• Get a clear jar and then fill it with the pepper paste using a spoon.
• Level the paste at top of the jar with the spoon and cover with olive oil.
• Put on the lid and leave in the fridge. Should last about 3 weeks.

Option 3 – Frozen (My preferred option)

• Using a spoon fill an ice cube tray.
• Put in the freezer and when frozen take out and
• Put the pepper paste ice cubes in freezer bags.

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Hot habanero pepper paste recipe

How to make hot pepper paste. This recipe is ideal for Habanero or Jalapeno peppers, but will work with most peppers.

Course ingredient

Cuisine American, Mexican

Keyword hot pepper paste

Prep Time 15 minutes minutes

Cook Time 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes

Total Time 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes

Servings 4 jars

Author Minze Vries

Cost £1

Equipment

• Kitchen gloves – Very important !!!!!!
• Chef Knife
• Rotary Food mill
• Resealable Storage Jars
• Saucepan and lid

Ingredients

• 1 kg Habanero peppers Or Jalapeno
• 60 g Sea salt
• 1 tbsp Vinegar

Instructions

• Cut the peppers length-ways and remove the seeds (Make sure you wear gloves)
• Add the peppers to saucepan
• Add water so that the peppers float, bring to the boil add the saucepans lid
• Simmer for 10 minutes and then remove the lid
• Bring back to the boil, and boil for 1 minute
• Replace lid and let cool for 30 minutes
• Scoop the peppers into a blender – optionally adding other ingredients (see notes below)
• Blend to a paste
• Add 1 tablespoon of vinegar and stir
• 3 Ways to Store the Paste – see the notes below

Video

Notes

Optional Ingredients

The above recipe is great for a simple hot pepper paste. But you can always experiments and add other ingredients when blending it to a paste.

The most popular ones to add are

• Caraway seeds
• Cumin seeds
• Or coriander

3 Ways to Store the Paste

Option 1 – Ambient

• This way it can be stored at ambient temperature, in a dark cupboard.
• You will need small resealable glass jars, which need to be sterilised.
• Preheat the oven to 160 to 180°C
• Wash the jars and lids in hot soapy water. Rinse the jars but do not dry them
• Put the jars on a baking tray and put in the oven for 10 minutes
• At the same time soak the lids in boiling water for a few minutes. Take the jars from the oven and let cool on a kitchen towel.
• Spoon the paste into the jars and cover with olive oil
• Leave to stand for 2 months before using

Option 2 – Chilled in a Fridge

• Get a clear jar and then fill it with the pepper paste using a spoon.
• Level the paste at top of the jar with the spoon and cover with olive oil.
• Put on the lid and leave in the fridge. Should last about 3 weeks.

Option 3 – Frozen (My preferred option)

• Using a spoon fill an ice cube tray.
• Put in the freezer and when frozen take out and
• Put the pepper paste ice cubes in freezer bags.

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More information on how to make hot pepper paste

Hopefully the how to make hot pepper paste advice might inspire you to grow your own fresh hot peppers at home.

To grow your own peppers

They are really easy to grow at home (And look great) – even indoors (in your kitchen, spare bedroom, garage, etc. All you will need are seeds, growing system and some growing lights. There is detailed description of the – indoor pepper growing system

Don’t forget to wear gloves !!!

To make the hot pepper paste is not very difficult, and you will probably already have most of the equipment. The one item I find that made a real difference is the rotatory food mill – Available from Amazon

However, please don’t forget to wear gloves – the peppers can be very deceptive. They look great but are very hot on your hands afterwards, kitchen gloves make all the difference.