Making your own chipotle chiles (smoked and dried jalapenos)

Here's an article I wrote earlier today about smoking jalapeno chiles to make chipotles.

I did it in my Frontier, with broken terracotta pots instead of water in the er.. water tray.

http://www.shizzling.com/2011/10/making-chipotle-chiles-at-home-bullet-smoker-method.html

Dude! Love it..

How pokey were/are they? I tend to use a load of chilis over the summer and buy them online - never thought of smoking my own!

They're nice and fiery - I just had a Mexican dinner party tonight and used a couple in dishes.

In fact, I ordered another 2kg of jalapenos and they're sitting in the kitchen waiting to be turned into more chipotles.

My Aunt lives over in Watford.. I'll have to pop over and steal some..


Just for 'quality control' of course ;-)

Nice!

At the weekend I ground one of the chipotles up with some rock salt and ground cumin. Used it to coat some spicy Mexican nuts I was making. It tasted great.

Second batch is on now - a mix of red and green jalapenos - will be interesting to see how they compare.