So what should I do with all these habaneros?

Enema

I use them to make pepper jelly, spiced vinegar, dried and shredded for pepper flakes, hot pepper sauce, pickled peppers or use them sparingly when pickling things like green beans, okra, beets, etc. to kick things up a notch or two.



Here, I'll even give you my tried and true Habanero Pepper Hot Sauce Recipe:

Take about 50 habaneros, remove the green from the stems, place them whole in a blender and let the seeds and pith in the peppers. Add a cut up onion, several cloves of fresh garlic, the juice of 1 lemon, enough vinegar to come about 1/2 way up the peppers, salt to taste and blend until it is liquified. When blended taste to see if you want more salt or maybe even add more vinegar to thin out the sauce to your likingn

In a large pot on the stove, add enough water so it will cover the jars you are going to put the pepper sauce in by 1 inch. I use pint Mason jars for my hot sauce. Bring that to 185 degrees-----no need to boil it. If you live where you have hard water, add 1/2 cup of vinegar to the hot water bath so there's no film left on the jars when done.

While that is getting up to heat, put the pepper puree in a stainless steel pot and bring it to a low boil and cook it for about 15 minutes.

Ladle the hot sauce into your jars, wipe down the tops of the jars, place the metal lid and then screw down the retainer ring. Then place the jars in the hot water bath for 15 minutes. Remove and let cool on a towel on the countertop and they will form a vacuum. When I open a jar, I pour it into an old Worcestershire shaker bottle and it keeps just fine left on the countertop. Store the rest in a pantry until you need it.

Freeze some.

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Enema

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Fresh in gumbo (downvote away)

Fresh in a mango salsa. Sweet heat. So good.

I dried mine then turned to powder. I vac sealed a bunch of it, should have enough to last until I die.

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In a large pot on the stove

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Don't do this inside on your stove. Ask me how I know.

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Never has bothered me, but the wife and her daughter can't handle it much.


At least it keeps them out the kitchen and out my way when doing it.

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I've made numerous hot sauces before with various peppers without incident, but the habanero one was on a different level. Like you, my wife and daughters had to leave the house and I had to open the windows. Learned my lesson and now I just do all hot sauces outside on my grill's side burner.