recipes for chillies

Aril

OK here goes:
Chocolate and chilli pie
100g butter
300g choc digestives
200g soft cheese
200g creme fraiche
100g caster sugar
2tbsp coffee essence
1-2 chopped, deseeded red chillis
chillis and choc to decorate
Melt butter. Whizz biccies into crumbs and add to butter. Mix and press over base and sides of a 20cm loose bottomed tin
Melt choc whilst whizzing remaining ingredients in a food processor, Pour on the chocolate and blend. Pour this over the biscuit base and then chill 4 hours.

Enjoy!
Aril

liz105

we tried making chilli oil but it rotted, probably did everything wrong knowing us! We buy fresh chillis then chop them up and freeze them so we can just put a little bit in each meal when we want them. I now do this with onions too. Major time saver.

mrsJef

Morning all!

Am hoping someone can help me. I bought my husband a chilli plant which is now full of chillis-good, i dont know what to do with them-bad!! LOL. I am only at the begining of our turn to OS journey and have now spent 4 months learning how to cook properly which is great but chilllis are not currently in my reportoire!! Would love to make him something really nice with them as he loves chillis (i'm not so keen!) but would need to be something quite simple and nothing in this weeks menu plan needs any added! So maybe a chutney or something similar?! ALL suggestions are very welcome!
Thanks! X

xxvickixx

Chilli jam, sweet chilli sauce. I made chilli chocolate pots once for a dinner party,they were delicious. If you want to save some you can finely chop using a little chopper gadget would be easier with a little water and freeze in ice cube tray then transfer to a freezer bag. You can pop a cube in when you make something spicy.

Gigervamp

You can also freeze chillis whole.

Puzzledbubbles

Hey, not sure if this helps but we have a load of Chillis too so the other night i made the following:

1 tin of tomato's
1 chilli - home grown
1 and 1/2 courgettes - home grown
Mushrooms
1 Green pepper - home grown
1 hand full of sweetcorn
1/2 spoon lazy garlic

We had it with jacket potato and scampi (left over in the freezer lol) and it was lovely i thought after that it would also make a nice soup blended down - or a chunky soup if the pieces were less rustically cut (i went for large chunks)

Hope this helps

Puzzled

THIRZAH

Once they go red you can dry them. I'm still using last years.I just threaded a piece of thick cotton through them and hung them up in the airing cupboard.
Am not sure what I am going to do this year as DH has a dozen plants -several varieties.

nikki_angel

You could make harrisa paste for use in Morrocan cookery. Not too sure of a recipe though x

cazj80

We grew some red chillis last night - we strung them up on and dried them - we still have loads left now. We have grown a different type this year and will dry some of these. We make a really nice chicken and vegetable pie with a chilli or two in - just chopped and added to the sauce - it gives it a bit of a kick and is very tasty. We also made some chilli and tomato sauce with our tomatoes and froze some jars for the winter - yum!

kymbogs

Another vote here for chilli jam. I've never made it myself (yet) but a friend gave me a jar last year and it's lush, lovely with chunks of homemade bread and cheese. Mmmm.....I also spooned some of it into a chilli I was making that just wasn't doing anything for me, it really turned it around.