I love chillies. I've grown them for years and often make my own chilli relish with fresh chillies Straight from the garden. Sometimes I dry them as well and make my own dried chilli flakes.
Today I noticed there was a nice crop of chillies on my plants when I looked out the window, but I already have a jar of chilli relish in the fridge. So I decided to make some hot chilli sauce instead.
I found a simple recipe that popped up a couple of times when I was searching for recipes and added some extra ingredients to add to the flavour.
Ingredients
200g chilli peppers, ends removed and roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped
2 tsp fresh ginger
1 clove garlic, sliced
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 tsp lime juice
Add all ingredients to a pot and bring to the boil.
Reduce heat to a simmer and cook, stirring constantly for 8 minutes.
Transfer the sauce to a blender and blitz it for a minute or so until you have a nice consistency.
Pour into clean sterilised jars.
It turned out really good. It's very hot but that's how I like it. You can always blend it together with some tomato sauce or something if it turns out to be too hot, or replace some of the chillies with capsicums. I think I might use some of this to make some chilli mayonaise tomorrow...
Hint: If you get chilli on your hands while chopping them and it starts to burn, rub your hands on something made from stainless steel (like your kitchen sink or a large spoon). Sounds weird but it works!
Visit Teena's blog for more about our chilli garden.
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| A bowl of chillies fresh from the garden. |
Today I noticed there was a nice crop of chillies on my plants when I looked out the window, but I already have a jar of chilli relish in the fridge. So I decided to make some hot chilli sauce instead.
I found a simple recipe that popped up a couple of times when I was searching for recipes and added some extra ingredients to add to the flavour.
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| Chopped chillies, ready to go. |
Ingredients
200g chilli peppers, ends removed and roughly chopped
1 onion, roughly chopped
2 tsp fresh ginger
1 clove garlic, sliced
1/4 cup white sugar
1/4 cup white vinegar
2 tsp lime juice
Add all ingredients to a pot and bring to the boil.
Reduce heat to a simmer and cook, stirring constantly for 8 minutes.
Transfer the sauce to a blender and blitz it for a minute or so until you have a nice consistency.
Pour into clean sterilised jars.
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| A jar of chilli sauce ready for tasting. |
It turned out really good. It's very hot but that's how I like it. You can always blend it together with some tomato sauce or something if it turns out to be too hot, or replace some of the chillies with capsicums. I think I might use some of this to make some chilli mayonaise tomorrow...
Hint: If you get chilli on your hands while chopping them and it starts to burn, rub your hands on something made from stainless steel (like your kitchen sink or a large spoon). Sounds weird but it works!
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| I think these are jalapeño peppers |
Visit Teena's blog for more about our chilli garden.
with the amount of chillies we have growing in our garden I think we need a wide selection of different chilli sauces and relishes! yummo! <3 <3 <3
ReplyDeleteMy husband went into the garden about 1 hour ago and is now making Chilli sauce. His first question to me was "how do you sterilise the jars?". He now has them on the stove simmering away. I will let you know if the sauce is to our liking. Thank you, Elizabeth
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