These wonderful crushed peppers are from the Turkish town of Urfa. There the ripe peppers are picked and cut, dried in the sun by day, then wrapped and sweated at night for more than a week. This sweating process gives the purplish black color and a rich, earthy flavor, mellow heat and smoky aroma. Flakes are moist and seedless with an intense dark color. Its less spicy than many other chili peppers, but provides a more lasting build of heat.

Urfa peppers have a moderate heat level, rating a 3-4 on a heat scale of 1-10 and 35,000 Scoville heat unit.