Thanks to this website and subsequent research I've done on my own I have been making some good hot sauces from this year's grow (and any nice ripe peppers I find in local stores). I will get the sauces/ferments ready, cook em up and then process with a food mill. But I've always wondered if it were possible for me to get any other use from the pulp that is always left over from the hot sauce making process.
Well I found some tray screens for my dehydrator, so the last time I processed a batch of sauce I turned the leftover pulp out into those trays and let em go for about a week at 115 or so degrees. Keep in mind this hot sauce was from a batch of ferment, so there's onion, carrot, garlic, fresnos, habaneros and some frozen fish pepper, cayenne and lombok peppers from this year's garden all mixed up in the mash that you see.
That mash was processed.
Then I took the leftover pulp and put it onto the dehydrator trays. After drying it looked like this:
In the grinder:
Final product:
Definitely an interesting powder. A little bitterness - maybe from seeds, maybe from lime juice I added during cook down. A little heat but not too much. I think I'll mix this down with sweet ancho chili powder for balance and make some tacos.
Well I found some tray screens for my dehydrator, so the last time I processed a batch of sauce I turned the leftover pulp out into those trays and let em go for about a week at 115 or so degrees. Keep in mind this hot sauce was from a batch of ferment, so there's onion, carrot, garlic, fresnos, habaneros and some frozen fish pepper, cayenne and lombok peppers from this year's garden all mixed up in the mash that you see.
That mash was processed.
Then I took the leftover pulp and put it onto the dehydrator trays. After drying it looked like this:
In the grinder:
Final product:
Definitely an interesting powder. A little bitterness - maybe from seeds, maybe from lime juice I added during cook down. A little heat but not too much. I think I'll mix this down with sweet ancho chili powder for balance and make some tacos.