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Hot Chilli Sauce & Pickled Chillies

HOT CHILLI SAUCE & CHILLI PASSATA

A rainy day so well suited for a day of preserving. I have lots of chillies to use up, so I made the following. The recipes are all quite similar with minor variations on each.

Hot Chilli Sauce

Ingredients

8 Ohnivec and 4 other Chillies

1 large Carrot (homegrown is best!)

1 Onion

3 tbsp Sugar

1 and a half Cups of Water

Pinch of cumin (optional)

Half a cup of Cider vinegar and half a cup of Red Wine vinegar

Pour the water and vinegar into a saucepan. Add the sugar at a low heat and ensure it dissolves. Chop up the carrot and onion and add to the pan.

Put the chopped chillies and cumin in the saucepan after 7 mins or so and simmer until soft consistency is achieved.

Put into a blender and blend until nice consistency.

Bottle it up and enjoy!!

                                                         Spicy Passata Relish

Ingredients:

12 Chillies (I used 2 Lemon Drop, 3 Hot-scotch, 6 Ohnivec and 1 Sante Fe)

1 Large Onion (chopped roughly)

1 Carrot (sliced)

3 tbsp Golden Caster sugar

1.5 Cups of Water

½ tsp of Cumin

½ Cup Cider Vinegar

½ Cup Red Wine Vinegar

1 Large Tomato (I used Brown Sugar, but any decent sized tomato with some flavour will do)

Add the chopped onion and carrot to the water and vinegar mix in the saucepan.

Add the sugar and stir until dissolved on a low heat. Gradually increase heat and when approaching soft consistency, add the roughly chopped tomato, chopped chillies and cumin powder.

Simmer until all have a nice soft consistency keeping a lid on the saucepan.

Add to the blender and whizz up! Taste and add to sterilised jars.

Taste Test> This is nice and tangy with a nice after kick to it!! Slightly thicker than a sauce, so well suited for using as a spicy passata type sauce. 

                                                     Spicy Chilli Sauce

Ingredients:

12 Chillies (I used 8 Ohnivec and mixed others)

1 medium Onion (chopped roughly)

1 Lime juiced

2 and ½ tbsp Golden Caster sugar

1 Cup of Water

1 tbsp of Fish Sauce

1 tbsp of sliced Ginger

250ml White Vinegar

250ml Cider Vinegar

Add the sugar to the water and vinegar mix in the saucepan and stir until dissolved on low heat. Add the chopped onion, lime juice, ginger and fish sauce and increase heat.

When approaching soft consistency, add the roughly chopped chillies. Simmer until all have a nice soft consistency keeping a lid on the saucepan.

Add to the blender and whizz up! Then add to sterilised bottles.

Taste Test> A nice sweet to sharp taste..This is a chilli sauce and so more suited to bottles.


                                                      Pickled Chillies

Pickled Jalapeno Recipe

PICKLED CHILLIES

Pickled Jalapeño

Quick Pickled Jalapeno Recipe

Pickled Whole Chillies

Recipe of the Week – Pickled Chilli Peppers

Shows off the full splendour of the chillies

I love my chillies and am always looking for ways to preserve them; here is another!Chilli peppers will freeze and dry quite well, but pickling is an approach that retains their colour and flavour excellently. The vinegar in the pickle is also believed to reduce the heat in them.
This excellent recipe is from Mark Diacono’s A Year at Otter Farm and takes just afew minutes to make. This recipe made three jam-jars of pickle, with the chilliesstanding upright in the jars.

Ingredients:

• 250g chilli peppers

• 500ml white wine vinegar

• a pinch of salt

• 100g caster sugar

• 3 bay leaves

• 12 peppercorns

Directions

Dissolve the sugar and salt in the vinegar in a pan over a medium heat. Add the bay leaf and the peppercorns and simmer for 10 minutes. Be careful that it doesn’t boil off.

Remove from the heat.

Pierce each chilli 5 or 6 times.

Put the chilli-peppers into sterilised jars and pour the hot vinegar over them to cover – then seal. Check liquid levels in jars after about a week.

Store in a cool, dark cupboard for up to a year. Keep in the fridge once opened.

Pickling Jalapenos

Below  is a link for a site I find useful when pickling Jalapenos..I try to pickle a mix of Green, Red & Purple Jalapenos and also usually add some Chilaca chillies too..

http://www.theyummylife.com/Pickled_Jalapeno_Peppers