Homemade Grapefruit Pepper
Servings: 6 tablespoons
Cost: $5
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Equipment
- Dehydrator or oven
- Spice grinder
- Airtight container
Ingredients
- 1 large grapefruit
- 1/4 cup black peppercorns
Instructions
- Wash and peel the grapefruit. Avoid including the bitter, white pith.
To dehydrate
- If you have a machine used for dehydrating, use as instructed. If using an oven: heat the oven to the lowest setting possible (between 170º and 190ºF). Line a baking sheet with parchment paper and add peels or zest in a single, even layer. Bake for 20 minutes then check every 5 minutes to see if they are completely dried.
Grind until it reaches your preferred texture.
- Once dried, combine the peel with black peppercorns and any other spices or seasonings you'd like.
- Grind dried citrus peel/zest combined with pepper until it reaches the desired texture.
- Store in airtight container.
Notes
- Instead of a grapefruit, you can use:
- 1 orange
- 2 lemons
- 2 limes
- For marinating/seasoning, I'd go with a blend on the finer side of things.
- For soups, pastas, anything where the spice blend will have the chance to simmer in some sort of liquid, a more rustic spice blend is fine.