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🌶 Chipotle Peppers

Chipotle Peppers

🍽 Serves ⏲ Total Time
10 13.00 hours

🧂 Ingredients

  • 🪵 1 pecan wood chips or pellets
  • 🌶 20 jalapeño peppers ((preferably red))

🍳 Cookware

  • 1 smoker
  • 1 paring knife
  • 1 wire rack
  • 1 dehydrator
  • 1 oven

📝 Instructions

Step 1

Set smoker temperature to 200°F. Add pecan wood chips or pellets (apple, cherry, hickory, or oak also work).

Step 2

Wash and dry jalapeño peppers ((preferably red)). Make a slit with a paring knife from stem to tip along the side of each pepper. Place in a single layer on a wire rack that fits inside the smoker.

Step 3

Smoke the peppers for 3 hours. Remove from smoker. If not storing immediately in adobo sauce, dry completely.

Step 4

Dry the smoked peppers in a dehydrator at 125 °F to 135°F, or in an oven set at 170 °F to 200 °F (or its lowest temperature) for 6 to 10 hours, until completely dried and leathery. Store in an airtight container or grind into chipotle powder.

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