Chilli glut

[prison break fan]

Millymollymandy has suggested that I ask you all for some ideas for preserving my chillies. Last year I just dried them, but still have masses, so would like to do something different this year. I have several different sorts, all quite hot. Many thanks. pbf.

[Green Aura]

I've got a recipe for hot pepper sauce - filched, as ever, off t'internet. So thanks to whoever.

Hot pepper sauce
Servings: 1
Category: Relishes
Cuisine: Jamaican
Ingredients
Scotch Bonnet chilies - 225g
Brown sugar - 50g
Salt - 50 g
Garlic - 20g
Mustard flour - 10 g
Turmeric - 1/2 teaspoon
Cumin - 1/2 teaspoon
Cornflour - 2 desert spoons
Vinegar - 500ml
Instructions
Put the chillies and garlic in a hot oven and cook until the chillies are very well browned.
This smells fantastic, so make sure you are in the kitchen while it is happening.
Remove the stalks from the chilies and chop roughly.
For a milder sauce, remove the seeds and cores, and just use the outer parts.
Than combine everything with half a litre of vinegar, and boil for 10 minutes.
The final step is to blend until smooth, and pour into bottles
Notes
You can substitute or omit anything but the chillies. If you don't use these chillies it will not taste the same.

That's the recipe as I got it - we didn't use scotch bonnets. We had a huge sweet jar full of about 2-3 years worth of various chillies that we'd dried - it's lovely. I can't remember how I adjusted the recipe for dried chillies - I'm guessing I soaked them in hot water then weighed them when rehydrated. That's what I'd do if I was making it today

[fran]

I have just made Nigella's chilli jelly:

http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_de ... ?rid=20158

The first lot was very set and the second lot was a bit runny and was renamed sweet chilli sauce. However, both lots are absolutely delicious and dead simple to make.

[battybird]

I also have a chilli glut.....but I dont eat them much as not good at spicy food! Only grew them as my son had started them off from a fruit that had dropped off the plant in the garden centre! Ended up with five plants that were absolutely full of chillis...I have dried them but now dont want to waste them...may end up putting them on freecycle! The sauce sounds lovely but I know I wont eat it!

[prison break fan]

Thankyou so much! Unfortunately my kitchen doesn't give off lovely smells as I cook in a Rayburn! I have just realised there is no e in chillis! pbf.

[bean gardenin']

I have just made Nigella's chilli jelly:

http://www.nigella.com/recipe/recipe_de ... ?rid=20158

The first lot was very set and the second lot was a bit runny and was renamed sweet chilli sauce. However, both lots are absolutely delicious and dead simple to make.

We had a chilli glut while on holiday so my mum made us some of this, don't think its a good way of preserving chillis though because its so delicious it hasn't lasted very long at all!!!

[Millymollymandy]

Thankyou so much! Unfortunately my kitchen doesn't give off lovely smells as I cook in a Rayburn! I have just realised there is no e in chillis! pbf.

Yes there is, in English English. Chilli and chillies. I think Americans have chili and chilis/chiles (not sure which).

[prison break fan]

I'm glad I was right the first time!! pbf.

[battybird]

Thankyou so much! Unfortunately my kitchen doesn't give off lovely smells as I cook in a Rayburn! I have just realised there is no e in chillis! pbf.

It was a typo on my post! ...... I missed the e out!!

[patR]

I also have tons of chillis, a few red but mainly green at the moment, all the tiny piri piri kind though... and like battybird, cant eat them... I'll just make a little chilli olive oil and have to give the rest away..

[chilitony]

I always have a glut of chillies, so I pickle in vinegar, preserve in olive oil, string them up to dry and freeze.