When you get a bounty of jalapeno peppers you can smoke them to make your own Chipotle Peppers and Chipotle Pepper Powder.
Prep Time10 minutesmins
Bake Time3 hourshrs
Total Time3 hourshrs10 minutesmins
Servings:24servings
Ingredients
Ripe(Red Jalapeno Peppers, as many as you've got.)
Smoking Chips
Instructions
Soak wood chips for at least 2 hours. We used applewood chips.
For a Grill with A Smoker Box
Light a chimney of charcoal. Lay the peppers out on the foil lined grill grate. Set up the smoker box with hot coals and a handful of the soaked chips. Replace the charcoal with new hot coals as needed and add new wood chips as the old ones burn away. Smoke the peppers for 3-4 hours, keeping the temperature between 180-200 °F.
For a Regular Charcoal or Gas Grill
Set up a hot side and a cool side by turning on half the gas elements to low or piling the hot coals off to one side of the grill.
Arrange the peppers on the cool side of the grill. Place a handful of soaked wood chips on the charcoal. Replace charcoal with hot coals as needed.
For a gas grill wrap the soaked chips in smoker box or a foil packet with slits cut in the top. Place the chips on the grill element to create smoke.
To Dry the Peppers
Remove the smoked peppers from the grill and arrange them on a cooling rack. Place the cooling rack in the oven on the lowest setting possible. Turn on the convection fan if you have one.
Dry the peppers in the oven for 12-24 hours until they are completely dry but still slightly pliable.
If you have a food dehydrator you can use that, but it will smell of smoke when you're done.
Notes
If your oven smells of smoke after the peppers are dried you can run the self clean cycle to get rid of the odor.