What to do with Chillis?

[Palmela]

I've just harvested an end of season bumper crop of chillis from the garden. I'd planned to de-seed and fry with onions to have a big batch of sauce for cooking, but is there anything 'better' I can do with them?

[Mobile Chicane]

Pickle them! An easy pickling recipe to follow is the 3-2-1 method; three parts water, two parts vinegar, and one part sugar.

[Nothingtoseehere]

Ferment them - make a fermented hot sauce.

Dry them and make your own chilli powder. Sounds quite boring, and I only did it as I had some left over from my sauce batches, but it was really good chilli powder - had flavour and heat. Dry them in the oven then blitz them in a mini blender.

[loskie]

I dried some and they lasted for ages and still did well.

Make some Chilli Jam?

[Palmela]

I have never fermented or pickled them, but did make some very good chilli jam last year.

[Deep Thought]

Chilli Jam!

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chilli-jam

[MattsCar]

Deep Thought said:

Chilli Jam!

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chilli-jam

With Christmas coming up, a cranberry and chilli jam would be nice to add a bit of kick to the dinner.

[nikaiyo2]

I strung loads onto a bit of string, hung them over the back of the hot water cylinder in the airing cupboard, and dropped them, so now they are behind the hot water cylinder for ever.

[JPC63]

I bought a load last week, but they were a bit hotter than I thought, so stuck the rest in the freezer.

[The Gauge]

I made candid chillies (or Cowboy chillies) when I had a bumper crop, it an amazing sweet chilli dressing for adding to burgers or pizzas etc, you get the heat but its is also lovely and sweet, the liquid tasing amazing drizzled onto pizza or on steak on the bbq etc..

Basically involves simmering the chopped up chillies in a pan with a water & sugar solution, then decanting into Kilner jars with screw top lids which had to go through the canning process to seal the lids (submerging the jars into a big pan of boiling water, then cooling down).

For the rest of the chillies I bought a vacuum sealing machine from Amazon and bagged them all up, vacuum sealed the bags and then put in the freezer.

https://www.food.com/recipe/candied-jalapeno-or-co...