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Home / Dehydrating / Green Pepper Powder

Green Pepper Powder

Filed Under: Dehydrating, Seasonal Summer, Vegetable powders Tagged With: Peppers

Green pepper powder is a dry powder made from green peppers that have been dried then finely ground. It is used as you would a spice, in small quantities.

The powder adds to dishes a delicate background flavour with a mild zip.

You can make it yourself, or buy it already made. Restaurant cooks often buy it in bulk, and use it to add a green pepper taste to dishes.

Sample uses:

  • Holy Trinity Powder.
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  • 1 Yields and Equivalents
  • 2 Directions
  • 3 Storage
  • 4 Usage notes

Yields and Equivalents

5 tablespoons dehydrated green pepper powder = 40 g (1.5 oz)

1 tablespoon = 8 g (.3 oz)

Directions

Prep and dry green peppers as per recommendations for dehydrating sweet peppers.

When dried and cooled, store dried pieces for a few days in a sealed container to ensure there will be no condensation starting. If there is, dehydrate a bit more, as that excess moisture would affect your powder.

When are you sure that your pieces are truly safely dried, you can grind them into powder. (Make sure they are quite brittle before attempting to grind them into a powder, or they dance around the food processor blade.)

It’s ideal if you can grind in two steps but just one step is fine if that is all you can do or wish to do:

  1. Put in food processor and grind to a coarse powder (you can stop here if you wish);
  2. Take the coarse powder, and in small batches, process through an electric coffee bean mill to reduce to a fine powder. You may need to strain your work a few times and reprocess any pieces that didn’t turn to a powder.

Note that you may not be able to get as fine a floury-like powder as you can with some other items. That’s fine.

Storage

Store in an air-tight jar. Label jar with name of product and date. Store away from heat and direct light.

Usage notes

No need to rehydrate first when using.

Delicious in dressings, dips, soups, sauces, scrambled eggs, western omelettes, etc.

Tagged With: Peppers

Filed Under: Dehydrating, Seasonal Summer, Vegetable powders Tagged With: Peppers

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Comments

  1. Delores Richards

    December 23, 2023 at 7:53 pm

    can you use green pepper powder in potatoe salad instead for regular green peppers.

    Reply
  2. Penny Molina

    December 05, 2023 at 1:13 am

    So, how much of the powder is approximately equal to a large bell pepper?

    Reply
  3. george

    January 17, 2019 at 2:00 am

    is it possible to dehydrate the pepper as sun dried because I don’t have a dehydrator machine? thanks

    Reply
    • Healthy Canning

      September 11, 2019 at 3:10 pm

      Not sure of the answer to that with regards to quality, perhaps someone else can answer.

      Reply
    • Lori

      October 22, 2024 at 1:51 pm

      You might need to over-crisp them after they sun dry. My experience with sun drying is that the end result is pliable, not crunchy-crisp. You need crisp to get them pulverized.

      Reply
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