How to use habanero peppers

Spice up all your favorite dishes by learning when to pick habanero peppers so that they are perfectly ripe and ready to devour.

Habanero plants are rather prolific. You may harvest more pods than you know what to do with! Here are some ideas on what to do with habanero peppers...

Habanero peppers are growing fast in popularity. You can now often find them right across from jalapeño peppers on grocery store shelves. But handling a wickedly hot habanero is a totally different experience than handling a barely medium-heat jalapeño.

If you have an explosion of habanero peppers this year, here are several ways to use up as many of those habaneros as possible.

Homemade Fiery Habanero Hot Sauce is exploding with the spicy, fruity flavor of fresh habanero peppers. Great on eggs, tacos, nachos, or anywhere you want to add loads of spicy flavor. Great for using up homegrown habaneros!

Here’s 24 recipes using Habanero peppers for spicy food lovers. From fiery margaritas, appetizers, Habanero dinner recipes and more, you'll find so many options!

There are a few ways that you can store habanero peppers. Fresh habaneros can last up to 2 weeks if properly stored. Here we'll tell you how.

A recipe for sweet and spicy habanero pepper jam made with plenty of habanero peppers.

A spicy tomato based habanero salsa for those who like it hot!

Roasted habanero peppers and sauteed mango come together to create a highly flavorful salsa that is slightly sweet. It serves up great as a traditional salsa, but also as a topping for fish.