Habanero Help

Dehydrate some and make powder.

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Dehydrate some and make powder.

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and kill ants with it

take a fifth of silver tequila and pour into a pitcher

take 10 habanero peppers and cut in half

place in pitcher with tequila for 24 hours

pour tequila through strainer into your original fifth and make sure you mark it

use for spicy margaritas

Grind them or blend them and mix with salt. Keep that (it's pepper mash) in a sealed container and use that to cook with since you can now use it in a repeatable measurable fashion. Remove the seeds before blending if you don't want seeds in your mash.

Blend the mash with vinegar and strain the seeds out of the resulting hot sauce.

Use approximately 1 cup of mash when you boil crawfish. You can freeze the mash into 1-cup bricks for easy storage. Adjust the number of cups used to your taste.

Mix some mash with French's mustard for some really spicy mustard.

Take the top off the whole habaneros, deseed and make habanero poppers if you really like the heat. Add capers to the stuffing, they seem to go well with the habanero's flavor (but not so good with jalapeños IMO).

Shred them and put them on a hotdog if the spicy mustard isn't enough for you. You can also mix the shredded peppers in with sweet relish. Mix as needed unless you make your own relish (i.e., don't contaminate a bottle of relish with uncooked peppers and then keep that for later use).

They are great for making a salsa and pair in salsa especially well with mango or peach.

Add some of the mash to KC Masterpiece or similar BBQ sauce. This will go well with a few added drops of orange extract, especially on pork.

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but it was like tear gas to them.

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that’s because it is tear gas LOL

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That sounds like it would be insanely hot

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Oh it is

I used to only add a half oz of the habanero tequila to a couple ounces of regular silver tequila but now I prefer to make them with only the habanero tequila

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Grind them or blend them and mix with salt. Keep that (it's pepper mash) in a sealed container and use that to cook with since you can now use it in a repeatable measurable fashion. Remove the seeds before blending if you don't want seeds in your mash.

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My family makes what they refer to as “pepper dip” with pepper mash, bacon, and eggs. I don’t know the exact ratio, but it’s gotta be almost equal parts pepper mash and eggs.

It's essentially scrambled eggs with bacon and a shite ton of pepper mash in it. It's eaten with corn chips like a dip. It's very hot

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gotta tell you…I’m 58 and have eaten a lot of weird shite but I have never heard of eating scrambled eggs as a chip dip

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I have no idea where it originated, the eggs are essentially just a binder so that the mash isn't overly wet, to give it some "body" and to "stretch" the mash and maybe cool it down a bit, they don't add any flavor to the dip. All you're really tasting is very hot pepper with a hint of smokiness from the bacon. I know it doesn't make sense, my grandma is from Zwolle, if I had to guess it would be some weird shite from there