recipes for chillies

maman

I chop mine first then open freeze. Then I add some to stir-fry or chilli con carne or whatever through the winter.

seabright

Dry them & string them on pretty ribbon & use them as an alternative to tinsel on your Christmas tree

nuno

Hi

So i've just been down the market at the end of the day, and picked up some incredible bargains.

I've got a giant bag of ginger i'm going to turn into ginger paste for curries etc

Giant bag of limes

giant bag of garlic (for paste)

and a giant bag of chillies like these:



all for £4 for the lot!

Now i have about 40 of these and don't really know what to do with them?

I don't think they're blow your head off strength, so that's cool. I'll use some just for chopping and cooking, but don't know what to do with the other 37!

Can I make these into chilli paste? Is there anything interesting I can do with them? I like spicy food so wondered about combining them with a big batch of tomatoes and make some kind of base sauce I can add spices and cream to to make curry sauce but also add something like kidney beans and beef to make chilli con carne or just have as is for a spicy 'arababiata' style pasta sauce.

Is there such a recipe? Or any other suggestions?

D&DD

I'd make one of these

http://www.chillies-down-under.com/chillies-drying-air.html

Pink.

Hi nuno,

Nigellas chilli jam! is fabulous.

These threads may give you other ideas:

recipes for chillies

Preserving chillies?

Once you've had some more replies I'll add your thread to the chilli recipes thread to keep the suggestions together.

Pink

BitterAndTwisted

No need to rush: you could thread them on some string and dry them in the airing-cupboard or similar and use them later.

wssla00

Or pop them in the freezer!

Emstick14

I would freeze them on a tray and then bung them in a box altogether and then you can decide what to do with them after that.

Bargain chillies:)

blissfulbabe

Why not treat them the same as the ginger? Make a chilli paste and freeze it in usable lumps? I do this with ginger, garlic and chillis and it makes cooking curries/ chinese food so much more convenient.

pandora205

I grew chillis last year and had a bumper crop. I just put them on a tray and froze them (whole), bagging them when they were solid. Now I just take out a couple when they are needed.