Spiceology Jalapeno Powder is an all-purpose ground spice that can be used to season all types of meat and seafood or added to your own spice rubs and blends for a spicy kick. Jalapeno Powder sits in the middle of the Scoville heat scale at 2,500-5,000 Heat Units.

What Is a Jalapeño Pepper? Jalapeño peppers are one of the most well-known varieties of the capsicum annum species. They have a bright flavor that is more grassy than other pepper varieties, making jalapeños versatile enough to be used spicy food of many cuisines and perfect for an all-purpose hot sauce.

Substitute for Jalapeno

• Serrano Pepper. Serrano pepper is the most suitable substitute for the jalapeno.
• Fresno Pepper. The Fresno pepper is a very good replacement for jalapenos when cooking.
• Anaheim Pepper.
• Cayenne Pepper Powder.
• Smoked Paprika Powder.
• Hot Sauce.
• Habanero Pepper.
• Poblano Pepper.

Common uses of jalapeño powder Use it to add a mild heat to your barbecue sauce, to a dry rub or simply as an alternative to black pepper. It is a great way to add the jalapeño flavor to cornbread or as a way to get the heat of hot sauce without the moisture.

A dried jalapeno, chipotles are smoky, spicy, and a little sweet. There are two types: The chipotle meco is big, tan in color, and has a strong flavor. Bayless considers it a specialty chile, good for stuffing. The more common chipotle morita, also called chipotle colorado, is small, dark red, and sweeter.

If you just need to add some quick heat to a meal, cayenne pepper powder will do the trick. Cayenne peppers have a Scoville rating around 50,000 SHU, meaning they are more spicy than a jalapeno when fresh. The drawback of replacing jalapenos with cayenne pepper is obvious: Its a powder.

Serrano peppers (pronounced seh-RAH-noh) are hot, literally. With a ranking of 5,000 to 15,000 Scoville units on the chili heat scale, serranos are up to five times hotter than their cousin, the jalapeño. (Jalapeños are rated at 2,000 to 5,000 units. Dried, the serrano is called chili seco.

The red ones can be pretty hot, especially if they have a lot of striations, but they are also sweeter than the green. If you are trying to avoid the hottest jalapeños (say for a stuffed jalapeno dish), pick the chiles without any striations.

The ingredient in hot peppers which gives them that zing is called capsaicin and is referred to as the pepper’s natural defense. When jalapeño plants are stressed, as when they are lacking water, the capsaicin increases, resulting in hotter peppers.

For a Spicy Jalapeno Size: Smaller peppers can often be spicier. Jalapenos can also develop more striations as they mature. As a pepper ages, it gets spicier too. Location: The hottest peppers come from the hottest regions.

The bigger the jalapeño, the spicier it is! If you’re looking for a little kick, go with a small pepper. For a big bang of heat, go big! Heat cracks develop as peppers age and get spicier.

It seems that jalapeno peppers get hotter as they get older and the older they get, they change in appearance. When young, they are smooth, uniformly green and less hot but as they get older they start to develop striations or lines in the outer skin. Supposedly red jalapeno±o peppers are at their ripest and most hot.