De-Seeding Ancho Peppers for Making Stuffed Jalapeños

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Rich Buccola of New York City and today on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make stuffed jalapeños. We're going to start working with this Ancho pepper. I'm going to show you how to take the seeds out and get it ready for working with it. With these peppers, unfortunately, I don't know a different variation. I don't know if they're easy to come by. They are a Mexican spice, so if you have Mexican store you can find them there. It's a dried pepper. It's hot, but it also has sweetness at the same time. We're going to just cut the stem off. You see there's a lot of seeds in here and they're very hot. We don't want them. What we're going to do is just clean it out. You'll see a lot of them come out right away. You get in there with your fingers and just pull out everything. You can even open it up just by tearing it easily. You could cut it with a scissor even, but you want to get all of these seeds out. You also want to get this carcass, or whatever you want to call it. That will get out all of the hotness. Then we're just going to add it to some nice hot water for about 20 minutes to soften it up. We're just going to take some hot water and add it to our small bowl to get our Ancho pepper nice and soft. You're going to let that Ancho pepper soak for about 20 minutes."