Roasted Habanero Honey
Modified from Better Recipes.- Ingredients:
- 8 or 16 oz jar honey
- 1 habanero pepper
Using long tongs, place one habanero pepper on a piece of aluminum foil under a preheated oven broiler. Rotate pepper with long tongs until all sides are roasted, about two minutes. Pepper will soften and turn slightly black on all sides.
Remove from oven. With a knife and fork, cut off stem and slice pepper open lengthwise on one side. Scrape out seeds and discard. Place the gutted and destemmed habanero pepper in the jar of honey. With the lid back on, turn the honey jar upside down. The pepper will naturally float to the bottom of the jar after a few seconds. Repeat this process until the pepper is back on top of the jar next to the lid.
Remove the pepper with the fork and stir honey thoroughly. Taste to see if the honey has reached the desired level of heat that you prefer. If not, keep repeating the process. The longer the pepper remains in the honey the hotter the honey will taste. Discard the habanero pepper in the aluminum foil when finished.