Lemon Drop Pepper Seasoning

Lemon Drop Pepper Seasoning is citrus and garlic profile that has some kick from Lemon Drop Chilies. This is a wonderful all-purpose seasoning that goes good with lots of foods. Far more flavorful the store brand lemon pepper seasoning. The Lemon Drop Chilies have citrus flavors with heat of cayenne pepper. Pepper Joe's is great source for these seeds and plants.

How to make Lemon Drop Seasoning:

Select ripe Lemon Drop Chilies that have nice yellow color, they will have best flavor profile. Wash chilies with cold water, wearing protective gloves, remove stems and coarse chop the chilies. Next zest lemons with micro plane zester, set aside in small bowl. Break apart garlic cloves from bulb and remove the skins. Place the coarse chopped chilies, lemon zest and garlic cloves into food processor fitted with cutting blade. Pulse chop the ingredients, scraping down the sides of work bowl between pulsing process. Continue pulsing processor until achieve minced consistency. The next step is to add kosher salt and some Sugar In the Raw with chopped ingredients. Pulse a few times to mix all the ingredients for Lemon Drop Pepper Seasoning. Taste a small amount of the mixture and evaluate its flavor profile. Make proper adjustments to your liking.

Dehydrate the Seasoning:

Using dehydrator tray fitted with silicone mat spread the moist Lemon Drop Pepper Seasoning all over the drying mat. Be sure that the seasoning is spread thin layer evenly, so drying process can be done quickly. Set the dehydrator at about 135 degrees for 24 hours. Check to see how dry the mixture is at 24 hour mark. Sometimes it takes 24 to 72 hours to completely dry out.

When Lemon Drop Pepper Seasoning is completely dry, wearing gloves break the mixture into small pieces and place in mortar and pestle. Grind the mixture until forms a medium grind small enough to go through holes of shaker. Store in spice jar with desiccate packet, this will keep the seasoning from clumping.