Sweet ChilliJam is quick and easy to make and delicious with cheese and homemade bread. Warm through with a little rice vinegar and you have an easy sweet chilli dipping sauce
It’s just basically sugar, vinegar andchillies – a highly typical jam recipe. A teaspoon is a great way to scoop out seeds and flesh, after you have halved the chillies
Tip the peppers, chillies, ginger & garlic into a food processor and whizz until very finely chopped (I have to do this in batches as it won’t all fit in at once
I followed the recipe as per Lisa's blog, however having Indian roots Ilove my spice so I added a red chilli pepper and a sprinkling of chilli powder to the tomato jam to make it Tomato chillijam
If it’s not spicy enough for you, add a sprinkle of dried, chopped chilliesand stir through. To give a clearer jam, skim this off and discard as you go along
It did require a quick trip to John Lewis to purchase jam jars and a funnel, but apart from that tomatoes and bottle of balsamic vinegar where the only other things I needed to pick up, the rest I had in the cupboard
Put the chillies into a food processor and pulse until they’re finely chopped. Jam sugar contains right amount of pectins that some fruit lack, it helps jelly or jam sets quickly, keep their natural falvour and color
The chillijam accompanied the cheeses and it was perfect, not only, as I had expected, with the more mature ones but also combining wonderfully with the young, fresh pecorino
How hot the end result is depends on the heat in the chillies so taste a little piece first and select the strength of chilli depending on your taste or the taste of whoever it's for
Damson andredcurrantjam will be a welcome treat when the skies are grey. The damsons were picked (and shaken) from a tree in our garden, and these redcurrants grew in my mum’s garden
Add these both to a spicy, fragrant chillijamand I am more than happy. This is my 'go to' recipe whenever I need a chilli fix - which is pretty much daily, and luckily this recipe makes a few jars of the stuff
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