My first red chilli!

proudmum_3

Thanks everyone in this post.
Was just about to ask what i can do with my Chillies.
Was surprised that they grew as gardening & i don't really go together. This is the first time i have successfully grown something from seed. Now i have loads of them! Thanks Primrose for the tip that they can be frozen. I can keep them now. I am currently drying out the red ones to keep in a jar, but does anyone know if you can dry the green ones?

Primrose

I've never dried unripe green chillis (only the ripe red ones) but see no reason why they can't be dried. Drying them in a brown paper bag in the airing cupboard would probably be the best way of doing it. The dried chillis look rather black and unappetising but I've still got some in a sealed glass jar which I dried three years ago and they're still fine for cooking.

Rummer

Oh I didn't know they could be frozen! We have grown our own with limited success but a few weeks ago I got a plant reduced from the garden center and it is coated in chillies so many that we didn't know what to do with them all but now we can freeze them! Thank you all again!!!!:A

Redtaps

Hi i was given 4 chillie plants a week ago they were purple now with a bit of sun they are turning red can anyone help i have a food dhydrator should i slice them and deseed them before drying once they are dried do i just store them in a jar or should i store in olive oil? help nnewbie to dhydrator

thanks

Minimoneysaver_2

I've got a chilli plant which I am growing indoors - so far it has only had 1 chili on it and that was rubbish. Is it better to grow outdoors? I might try the tomato feed trick as well.

Daft_Pegasus

Minimoneysaver wrote: »

I've got a chilli plant which I am growing indoors - so far it has only had 1 chili on it and that was rubbish. Is it better to grow outdoors? I might try the tomato feed trick as well.

I'd suggest indoors. We grew loads last year in the conservatory. This year we've had them outside for much of the summer due to an infestation on them. We brought them inside about a month ago and they're half the size of last years and we have only a few chilli's growing to date (although a lot of flowers).

We froze most last year but also pickled some by boiling some pickling vinegar and then once it had cooled, putting the chopped chilli's in it and simply stored them in the fridge. We grow jalapeno's so simply take them as required from the jar and add to either cooking or as they are on various meals.

Rummer

Just wondering do the plants last more than one year or do they die over the winter?

olly300

Rummer wrote: »

Just wondering do the plants last more than one year or do they die over the winter?

They are perennials but due to the UK climate it's best to chuck them away and start again next year.

surfsister

thanks all off to the freezer with my chillis lots!!

Juliepink26

I love growing chills, mine are out side, right now theres about ten on ready to pick and three big red ones. I usually just pop the extra ones in my glass jar of vinger, taste amazing with bbq meats.
Tuna steak goes nice with this,
1 onion choped up finely, 1 chilly finely chopped, pinch of garlic salt, handfull of parsley finely chopped, good glug of extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and juice of two lemons till its like a soup. I cant tell you how good it tastes!! Everyone always want the recpie...Spoon over fish, my favorite with tuna steaks.