How to dry chilli peppers

As the pepper season winds down, many wonder how best to preserve their harvest. Dry peppers can last from several months to a few years if stored properly.

Tanya Klimenko

Learn how to string red chili peppers to dry with this easy sewing trick! Sew through the tops with needle and thread and hang until dry! Also included are special tips and ways to use the dried chillies!

Dried peppers can last quite awhile, anywhere between a few months to even years if you store them correctly. If you dry hot peppers, the process also increases their flavor and heat that takes any spicy dish to the next level.

If you like red pepper flakes, like the kind you find at your favorite pizza restaurant, you are going to love how easy it is to make your own!

Ingredients: Extra Virgin Olive Oil Dried Chillies Chilli Flakes Had quite a few home grown chillies. Not sure of the exact name as I lost the tag, but similar to a birds eye chilli. Cut the stems …

Check out or lesson on how to dry and crush your own chili peppers. You will find out that it's super easy, and much better than store bought.

Drying peppers is easy! Follow these step by step instructions to learn the 5 best ways: dehydrator, oven, air fryer, hanging, or air-drying.

Follow this guide to find out exactly how to dry peppers- either in a dehydrator, low and slow in the oven, or air drying on a string.

When winter arrived, we harvested our chillies before the frost could get to them and found ourselves facing Mt Chillington. Since we use dried chilli in pretty much all of our Indian dishes, drying and saving them was the most obvious answer for us, and there was a certain appeal in hanging bundles of homegrown produce from the ceiling too. Here is my entirely unsanctioned, over complicated, make-it-up-as-you-go-along guide to stringing, hanging and drying chillies.