Dried & Smoked Chillies
When chillies are dried it gives a new dimension to their flavour, sometimes the taste of the dried form bears no resemblance to that of the fresh. The heat usually remains the same but you may get new richer or sweeter flavours.
Whole dried chillies have the protection of their outer skin to stop natural oils and flavour from escaping until you need to use them; this is an advantage over dried powdered chillies which tend to lose their flavour and aroma quickly, just search through some of those out of date little jars of herbs and spices in your cupboard and see how the Paprika has lost its redness and gone grey!
If you have had dried chillies before and found them a bit dirty, dusty and broken you will be pleasantly surprised by ours. All the chillies for sale here are grown and dried by us (with the exception of the selected Ristras). They are grown under cover and dried in small batches, you will find them clean and generally undamaged.
