Paprikas

Our dried pepper powders or paprikas are produced from hand selected fully ripe peppers. We sun dry the peppers and finish drying them in dehydrators before hand grinding and bottling and labeling. Our most popular varieties often sell out seasonally.

Sweet Paprika
This is made from sweet, mature, red, Hungarian, Spanish, and Italian paprika types. It is completely free of any heat or hot peppers.

Red mild paprika
This is made from our mild sweet red paprika peppers and is comparable to jalapeños in heat.

Cayenne
This is our most popular paprika for heat and flavor. We use only ripe red peppers, ground whole only the stems are removed.

Mild Pimentón
This paprika is made from our mild red paprika types, wood smoked and dried and ground for a special smoky taste popular in Spanish paellas, rice or potato dishes

Hot Pimentón
This is the same as our mild pimenton but made from our hot Spanish guindillas and Hungarian Cayenne wood smoked for unique flavor. Either may be substituted for chipotlé peppers in your favorite Mexican dish.

Ají Rojo
One of our slow growing, long season Peruvian peppers, capsicum bacatum, is a favorite for its habanero like flavor and milder heat. Though still as hot as most hot chilis, its unique flavor is unmistakable in Peruvian civeche, chicken ajillo, and potatoes with ajillo cream.

Ají Amarillo
A bright lemon yellow pepper ají a.k.a ají lemon, or ají citron it is a smaller bacatum type than the aji rojo but used in the same dishes in Peruvian cusine.