These peppers are not the kind you want to eat raw, but you can surely cook it into many things. We decided to make a paste from the peppers and seeds inside. Using it will only require a teaspoon at most at a time, with over a million heat units this is some very hot paste. But tasty none the less.
I am glad we grew these this year, I tried a hot sauce last year with these peppers in it. So I really wanted to give growing these exotic peppers a chance in my garden.. And they did great. Now it is time to make something out of them. Carefully we harvest them without touching, and then brought inside for cooking later.
Cutting off the stems, we use everything else.. Seeds, skin and gland.
Ready to go, all cut up and will go in the food processor for more finely chopping up.
We also take some garlic and remove the husk and add it into the paste ingredients.
Getting out the food processor we will blend all of this together until it becomes a fine paste. Basil leaves grown from the garden were added as well, along with some onion. Upon shredding the peppers, the smell got quite intense.
Then we needed to cook it down, a respirator was required as the pepper fumes made you want to cough constantly. That is some strong stuff! The whole house smelled like spicy peppers for a good 12 hours after cooking it. Maybe we should made it outside..lol
You can add this to soups and many other things where you can dilute the paste into a recipe.
With the paste complete, I make a batch of home made mayonnaise. And add a half teaspoon at the time. After tasting I could have added a full teaspoon. But did not want to add to much the first time and ruin my batch of mayonnaise.
