Chili peppers are similar to garlic. Either you like it or you don't like it. There is rarely an in-between. Anyone who grows chilies in the garden not only uses them for decorative purposes, but often also wants to use them in the kitchen. You can use the fresh chillies right away or you can dry the chillies and conjure up a powder from them. This is especially useful if you have a surplus of chilies. Depending on the amount, you can have some of the hot spice for a whole year.
But how do you make chili powder yourself? Thats is quite easy. To ensure that nothing goes wrong, be sure to watch Anna Teresa's video. Here she shows step by step how a new spice for the kitchen shelf is made from whole chillies.
In the video, the powder is relatively coarse, if you prefer it finer, you can then grind the chillies through an electric coffee grinder to get a really fine powder.
Did you know?The spiciness of the chili is not in the pod itself, but much more in the seeds and the white parts inside the pod. So you can have a say in how sharp the powder is in the end.