Ghost Pepper (Smoked Bhut Jolokia) Ground, Certified Organic

Our Certified Organic Ghost Pepper (Bhut Jolokia) powders add flavor, zest and intense heat that chili pepper lovers crave. Just the right amount of this smoked pepper is amazing! Too much can be harmful! Use the smallest amount first; gradually add more to learn what you can tolerate.  Bhut Jolokia! Meet the Ghost Pepper, a deceivingly innocent-looking chili pepper from Northeast India that happens to be one of the hottest chili peppers known to man. A hybridized blend of the Capsicum Chinense (a pepper much like the habanero) and its genetic cousin, the Capsicum Frutescens, the name Ghost Pepper means Bhutanese Pepper in Assamese. The origin of the name was accidental - “Bhüt”, which means “Bhutanese” was inadvertently confused with another word, “bhut” which means ghost. There are other names as well, and one worth noting in particular - “Bih Zolokia” which literally means “poison pepper”, referring to the intensity of its heat. In 2007, ghost peppers were the chili champions, unsu