Drying habaneros to use as meat seasoning.
My grandma just gave me three 1-quart size freezer bags full of habanero peppers straight from her garden. I have always wanted to try to make my own meat seasoning with a base of dried habanero to use for grilling and jerky making. This is my first time trying to dry peppers but the method below seems to work realy good.
1-Put peppers on a baking sheet.
2-turn oven on lowest setting. (i think mine is around 150 or 200)
3-place peppers in the oven and leave the oven door slightly cracked
4-turn every hour or so.
5-continue untill crisp
the peppers i had dried out in about 4 hours this way. I also want to try sun drying and im about to make a screen to go over my peppers to keep flys and bugs off of em when i set em out to dry...ill let you folks know how that one goes and ill also post my recipe for meat/jerkey seasoning if it turns out alright.
