How To Make Homemade Jalapeño Seasoning

After visiting the @sufficientliving homestead about a week ago, I managed to bring home two plastic grocery bags full of habaneros and jalapeños.  My wife doesn't like spicy food so I have to season mine after it's cooked.  That is where learning how to make homemade jalapeño seasoning has come in really handy for me.  Now I can make my food as hot, spicy and delicious as I want it.  Some people just don't know what they are missing out on....

The first step in the process of making homemade jalapeño seasoning is to clean and cut the jalapeños into small pieces and place them on a baking sheet (I line my baking sheets with parchment paper).

While cutting the pieces I preheat the oven to 150 degrees.  I would use a lower temperature in the range of 120 - 140 degrees, but our oven will not go below 150.  The jalapeños can also be dried using a dehydrator.  I can fit four pans into the oven at a time so I take full advantage of the available space.

Because it is extremely important to make sure that the jalapeños are completely dehydrated, I will leave them in the oven for anywhere from eight to twelve hours depending on the batch. Once they are completely dried out, I take them out of the oven and allow them to cool.  

After cooling to the touch, I place them in the blender as shown in the photo below.

Next I run the blender through varying cycles until all of the peppers are chopped into a fine powder.

Once this step is completed, I place the powder into a spice container and store it until I'm ready to heat up some food.  I use this powder on almost everything I eat.  You can separate the peppers or blend them all together and have a powder made from a mix of all types of jalapeños.  The photo below is a container of powder that was made from nothing but habaneros.

A couple of precautions I will give are as follows:

1 - Wear gloves when you are handling and cutting up your hot peppers.  You do not want to end up with hot pepper hands....this is painful and can last twelve hours or more.  While you are picking out your gloves, don't skimp on them pick up some good quality gloves that will protect your skin from the capsaicin in the jalapeños.

2 - Wear a dust mask while using the blender to turn your dried out spicy peppers into powder.  This will protect you from breathing in any fine particles that make their way into the air.

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