Hot-air dried, 100 g packs

Red jalapeno flakes

Name: Red jalapeno flakes
Brand: Easy Meals

Dried red jalapeno in flakes. Goes in dry, so the heat builds through the cook rather than sitting on top.

Price

On request

Good for

More dehydrated vegetables

Three or four medium onions in a pack that weighs a hundred grams.

The base of half the food in this country, dried.

A full mix of vegetables, cut and ready.

Keeping it

A cupboard is right. A sunny windowsill is not.

Light can shift the colour of a powder. Cooking brings it back, but there is no reason to let it happen.

Most of this is hygroscopic, which means it pulls moisture out of the air. Close the bag and it keeps.

A tin is sized for about four people and is meant to be finished.