Use the kick of chili peppers with complementary spices to create lively Mexican or Tex Mex fare.
Mildy spicy ~ better than store-bought… you grind it fresh!
Used as a spice to add pungency or piquancy and flavor to dishes.
Homemade Chili Powder adds authentic essence and a freshly ground chili flavor that’s only mildly spicy.
Try in my Turkey Chili recipe ~ or your culinary adventures.
Ingredients
- 3 medium Guindilla Chiles, dried
- 2 large Pasilla Negro Chiles, dried
- 2 tablespoons dehydrated minced garlic*, minced
- 1 ½ tablespoons cumin seeds
- 1 tablespoon smoked paprika
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
Instructions
- Heat a heavy skillet to medium heat (I've used a cast iron one.) Add the chiles, let toast -will become a little darker as they toast, about 1 1/2 minutes. Turn over with tongs and toast second side, about one minute. Add the cumin seeds, stir up and remove from heat. (The hot skillet will sufficiently toast the cumin.)
- Cool completely. If the chilis have gotten too dark - remove all to a plate to cool.
- Break the chiles with their seeds and add to a spice grinder or clean coffee grinder. Pulse to break up into small pieces. Add cumin, garlic* and oregano. Pulse to make a powder. Add the smoked paprika, pulse in.
- Place the Chili Powder in a clean glass container and store in a dark place.
- Recipe may be doubled. (Will use about 1/2 of recipe for my Turkey Chili Recipe.)
- *Garlic: I have used minced dehydrated garlic (I like grinding my own.) If you have garlic powder - pulse it in at the end with the smoked paprika. HINT: Please use garlic grown in the USA. Garlic grown in China is often covered in bleach and pesticides.
- The Scoville scale is a measurement of the pungency (spicy heat) of chili peppers. Higher Numbers are spicier. Other Chiles you can use as well: Ancho Chiles: 3 - 5, Arbol Chiles: 8, Cascabel Chilies: 4
- In my recipe: Guindilla Chile - 2 - 4. Pasilla Negro Chile: 3 - 5 -. They are Mildly Spicy.
- Below, a popular taco seasoning mix: Please avoid!
- Taco Bell Taco Seasoning Mix Original Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Salt, Garlic*, Chili Peppers*, Spice, Onions*, Maltodextrin, Paprika, Sugar, Contains less than 2% of Silicon Dioxide as an Anti caking Agent, Natural Flavor, Yeast Extract, Soybean Oil, Malic Acid.*Dried.
