Put the dried chiles in the coffee grinder and blend ... Get more recipes for custom spice blends including chile salt and homemade chili powder in my Taste of Tucson cookbook.

Crushed red pepper flakes Perhaps even more ubiquitous ... where the fruit is cured rather than dried. (Yes, chile peppers are a fruit.) Through the curing process, the pepper’s color changes ...

That’s fine, because chile pepper flakes don’t need a viral moment. Dried and crushed chile powder and whole chiles are vital to traditional Southwestern cooking, even if dried pepper flakes ...

Paprika is full of nutrients, and it can even help reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease. Apparently, it also promotes ...

Like Aleppos (also known as Halaby peppers), many of the world’s most delicious dried red-chile powders and flakes belong to the Capsicum annuum species, a plant with many varietals and what the ...

For more mild to moderate levels of heat, here are five types of chile flakes to consider adding to your spice arsenal. Perhaps even more ubiquitous than ground cayenne, crushed red pepper flakes ...