What to do with hundred of Chillies..

smk77

I've got 5 Thai Dragon chilli plants. Apparantly the chillies are 6 times hotter than Jalapenos! Last night I did a count on one of the plants and there were 30 chillies with at least 50 flowers so 80 chillies. Multiply that by 5 and i'll have about 400 very hot chillies! So, question is, what can I do with them?

I've googled a bit and I can dry them, freeze them or pickle them. Make sweet chilli sauce or lots of other hot sauces. Any suggestions though from other chilli growers?

Lotus-eater

First thing you can do is pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

How about your own chilli powder?

blossom30

smk77 wrote: »

I've got 5 Thai Dragon chilli plants. Apparantly the chillies are 6 times hotter than Jalapenos! Last night I did a count on one of the plants and there were 30 chillies with at least 50 flowers so 80 chillies. Multiply that by 5 and i'll have about 400 very hot chillies! So, question is, what can I do with them?

I've googled a bit and I can dry them, freeze them or pickle them. Make sweet chilli sauce or lots of other hot sauces. Any suggestions though from other chilli growers?

Hi I watched a programme last week I think it was about economical eating and the person was told to grow a chilli plant that would produce 100 chillies they were told to simply freeze them and they would last a year doing this. I am buying one on the next visit to gareden centre as I love chillies. Shrewdalx

smk77

Lotus-eater wrote: »

First thing you can do is pat yourself on the back for a job well done.

How about your own chilli powder?

Thanks. It's a shame my tomatoes haven't done as well!

Chilli powder would be good as it doesn't require much storage space. 500 chillies sitting in the freezer would be quite bulky!

misspenny

sauces or chilli oil would make good and bargin christmas gifts for your food loving friends,

foreign_correspondent

I freeze some, -they keep very well in a plastic bag in the freezer, I make hot pepper sauce, and pickle some jalapenos for use on pizzas etc!

Lotus-eater

smk77 wrote: »

Chilli powder would be good as it doesn't require much storage space. 500 chillies sitting in the freezer would be quite bulky!

Don't forget though, you haven't actually got 500 hundred ripe chillies sitting in your hot little hands yet and you probably won't.

I freeze mine too, works superbly well.

misskool

chilli relish.

chillies, garlic, ginger, lime/lemon juice and sugar. chop up chillies, some garlic, some ginger, stuff in jar. make a lime/lemon juice mix with sugar. pour over chopped chillies.

eat with everything!

or swap chillies with my tomatoes, i'm picking 300g a day at the moment

smk77

misskool wrote: »

chilli relish.

chillies, garlic, ginger, lime/lemon juice and sugar. chop up chillies, some garlic, some ginger, stuff in jar. make a lime/lemon juice mix with sugar. pour over chopped chillies.

eat with everything!

or swap chillies with my tomatoes, i'm picking 300g a day at the moment

Ah, chilli green tomato chutney!

If you are picking that many tomatoes then you'd do very well with chillies.

The lack of sun and the cooler scottish climate hasn't helped my tomatoes. My best tomatoes were in the hot summer of 2006 when grown outdoors. Since getting a greenhouse they've done badly thanks to the cooler summers.

misskool

and chilli sherry or chilli vodka.
one for cooking and one for drinking. a good chilli vodka makes a mean long island iced tea.

tomsolomon

I got a raly good tip for chillis. Wear gloves when you are preparing them.......:D
And whatever you do, DON'T touch anything.....
And I mean anything........:cool:

I have heard that rubbing olive oil into your hands before preparing chillis can help.

Oh and I made chilli sauce with mine last year and put it in Worcester Sauce bottles. It takes an awful lot of tomatoes to make one of those little bottle up, about 2-2.5kg.............