Question for Chili heads

[DATsBBQ]

Just got 2 dozen habenaro peppers fresh from my sisters garden in Kalifornia.

How do I keep these things around? I have a food dehydrater, also have Einstein and there's the freezer. Suggestions?

 

[bigwheel]

Dehydrating sounds like a good plan to me. If you was wanting to freeze em they would need to be blanched or roasted in order to kill the enzymes or otherwise they would lose flavor and color.

bigwheel

 

[ScottyDaQ]

Yep, best stored dried.

 

[Shawn White]

I'd slice em in half and throw em on the smoker at the tail end of a cook and add some smoke wood. Pecan is supposedly the wood for chipotles but I don't think you could go wrong with any other type. I've done mine with hickory.

finish in the dehydrator if necessary