{"id":11871,"date":"2017-02-28T02:52:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11871"},"modified":"2017-02-28T02:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T02:52:32","slug":"the-habanada-pepper-fresh-and-dried-two-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/?p=11871","title":{"rendered":"the habanada pepper: fresh, and dried two ways"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’ve used and written about these peppers so often, both fresh, as seen above, when they were\u00a0available last summer, and now home-dried, that I decided I had to do a special post about\u00a0them alone, if only to have something to link to.<\/p>\n

The Habanada is a highbred pepper which was developed only recently; I think it it’s a very special one.<\/p>\n

This paragraph, from a page on the Cornel University Small Farms Program site<\/a>, is an introduction to their\u00a0origin story<\/em>, which, like most such stories, includes a hero:<\/p>\n

Habanada is a brand new pepper, the first truly heatless habanero (hence the haba-nada) bursting with all the bright, tropical flavor of the fruit unmasked. Many attempts have been made over the years but none have achieved the fullness of flavor with absolutely zero heat. Their crisp, thin skin has an exotic, floral flavor like no pepper I have ever tasted. From cast-away seed to a signature show-stopper variety, Michael Mazourek has brought this pepper a long way in just thirteen generations.<\/em><\/p>\n

I’ve encountered Habanadas\u00a0only at\u00a0Norwich Meadows Farm<\/a>, in the Union Square Greenmarket.<\/p>\n

When dried, which I did myself in order to extend their season through the winter and spring, at the suggestion of Haifa Kurdieh, who runs the farm with her husband Zaid, they look like this:<\/p>\n

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I retrieved the darker, very\u00a0serious looking mahogany-colored batch\u00a0from the oven just in time; they have more than a hint of smokiness (and, oddly something like\u00a0an anise scent), in addition to the elements they retain from the original Habanero. The golden orange ones, which were my second try, are somehow both more gentle\u00a0and more powerfully aromatic; they’re quite perfect, in every way.<\/p>\n

This is a close-up of the dried golden\u00a0orange, just after they came out of the oven:<\/p>\n

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All three versions have been wonderful additions to many parts of many meals over the last 6 or 8 months. I miss the fresh peppers, but I’ve been using both the darker and the lighter versions more than frequently\u00a0ever since I dried them last fall, as a quick search will show<\/a>. They work with everything, meat, fish, eggs, pasta, vegetables.\u00a0The only difficulty they present, I might confess,\u00a0is controlling my addiction (and deciding which of the 2 to use\u00a0in any particular application).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve used and written about these peppers so often, both fresh, as seen above, when they were\u00a0available last summer, and now home-dried, that I decided I had to do a special post about\u00a0them alone, if only to have something to link to. The Habanada is a highbred pepper which was developed only recently; I think …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meals-at-home"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/food.hoggardwagner.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}