Quick Tip: Deseeding a Jalapeno

I'm Daisy Martinez from eHow.com. Today I'm going to give you some tips on how to de-seed a jalapeno in case you want to moderate the amount of heat in your chile. When you buy a jalapeno you want to buy a chile that is shiny dark green, has no soft spots and has a nice green firm stem. To de-seed the jalapeno you're going to want to take the top off the chile, the bottom off the chile and then you want to open it up almost like a book. Once we do that we're just going to work the inside ribs. You just run your knife along the ribs and open the chile as you go along. You take out the whole core just like that and what you're left with is the meat of the chile and you know that most of the heat in a chile is usually in the ribs and the seeds. So by taking the claws off the dragon so to speak, you can really monitor the amount of heat that you have in your chile. I'm Daisy Martinez, stop by for more tips on eHow.com.