California Farm Winter Made Red Paprika Spice

We use about one cup of smoked paprika powder per year, and one cup of regular sweet paprika powder. You can make these spices easily and quickly yourself by dehydrating red organic fresh California Wonder sweet peppers in your oven, then pulverizing them in your food processor or coffee grinder.
If you buy sweet red peppers in the store, and they are not organic, submerge them 15 minutes in a solution of 2 Tsp baking soda and 1 quart of water, then wash them. It removes 40% to 90% of residual pesticides.
When the paprika powder has dried, you store a cup in a spice jar and you cold smoke another cup on a tray in your barbecue with a cup of soaked oak wood chips. Done for the year.
California Farm Winter Made Red Paprika Spice
We use about one cup of smoked paprika powder per year, and one cup of regular sweet paprika powder. You can make these spices easily and quickly yourself by dehydrating red organic fresh California Wonder sweet peppers in your oven, then pulverizing them in your food processor or coffee grinder.
If you buy sweet red peppers in the store, and they are not organic, submerge them 15 minutes in a solution of 2 Tsp baking soda and 1 quart of water, then wash them. It removes 40% to 90% of residual pesticides.
When the paprika powder has dried, you store a cup in a spice jar and you cold smoke another cup on a tray in your barbecue with a cup of soaked oak wood chips. Done for the year.
Steps
- 1
Wash, dry, slice sweet peppers lengthwise, remove stem, save pepper seeds. Lay on tray in oven at 170F degrees till brittle. Pulverize pepper skins and seeds in food processor or coffee grinder.
- 2
Store half the dried paprika powder in spice jar, sprinkle other half on baking tray, smoke in barbecue overnight till oak wood smoke fire has burned out. Taste. If you want more intense smoke flavor, repeat. Store in spice jar.
- 3
Note: the above recipe is for winter. In summer, we sundry these fresh peppers and process differently.
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