Sweet Chilli Jam (or sauce if it doesn’t settle)

A lovely christmas prezzy.

A lovely christmas prezzy.

Have I come up trumps, or have I come up trumps. Oh boy, this is a great recipe. There was a bit of flaffing about, cutting up all the vegetables (and braving ASDA a few days before Christmas), but I think this one is worth it, and it makes so much that if you give 3/4 of it away as a gift, you’ll still have enough to last you a good while. There is a Sweet Chili sauce I buy from the local butchers, “So!Go sweet chili”, it’s about ÂŁ4 a bottle, and although it lasts a little 200ml bottle. It’s great stuff, but if I was charging that for this stuff, I’d be a millionaire after the 5th batch, and let me tell you, it’s a damn sight better.

This is the first time I’ve made a Jam/chutney/thinggy. If It sets, then I’m calling it a jam, if it doesn’t, it’s a sauce… I’ll let you know in the morning.

What you’ll need….

  • 8 ‘pointer’ red peppers (they’re nicer than normal peppers)
  • 10ish Red Chilis (don’t worry, it won’t blow your head off)
  • A bundle of Spring Onion.
  • Two red onions
  • A bottle of Red Wine Vinegar (350ml)
  • 1kg of Preserve Sugar (or I hear you can use Golden Caster Sugar).
  • A nice thumb of ginger
  • A haa-aaa-UGE pan.
  • Some jars to keep it in.
  • Two ‘things’ of Cherry Tomatoes… about 500g.
  • Hand Blitzer

What to do

  • De-seed the Chilis, you can just cut the top off, slice them in half and use a spoon to scrape out the seeds.
  • ‘Rusticly’ fine-slice all the various vegetables, (if you’ve got a blender, it’ll make life easier, but I don’t, so I did it by hand)
  • Shove half of all the veg, sugar and vinegar into the pan and mix it about. If you do it in that order, the vinegar will melt the sugar, rather than taking up so much room.
  • Do as above with the second half, in the same pan. There is to much there to stir around if you do it in one go.
  • Put the heat on under the pan, and let it boil, then put the heat down at let it simmer for 50 minutes, making sure you give it a good stir every 5 minutes.
  • After then, give it a little taste, if needs a little bit of this or that, add it. Personally, I thought it tasted perfect.
  • Let the mixture call down a little bit, about another hour.
  • Get a hand blitzer and blitz it down a bit, but keep it slightly course, it’s about getting a good mix.
  • Get some jars, I needed 4 coffee jars and two bigger ones.
  • The idea is to sterilize them, so you fill them half way up with water and microwave them for about 2 minutes, making sure that you’ve removed all the labels as in the ones that I used had metal in them.
  • Fill the jars up if the Sweet Chili goodness, and enjoy =)
Cut off the top, slice in half, use a teaspoon to scrape out insides

Cut off the top, slice in half, use a teaspoon to scrape out insides

8 Chillis, but mild and not hot.

8 Chillis, but mild and not hot.

Use a rough chop on everything, or even better, a food proccessor.

Use a rough chop on everything, or even better, a food proccessor.

It's a lot of Red Pepper, but it's good.

It's a lot of Red Pepper, but it's good.

Bung it in, in two halfs, to make life easier (I did it in one and it was too much)

Bung it in, in two halfs, to make life easier (I did it in one and it was too much)

oops, forgot the tomartoes, never mind, they'll break down when cooking so don't bother chopping... to much hassle.

oops, forgot the tomartoes, never mind, they'll break down when cooking so don't bother chopping... to much hassle.

Ok, I made a mess, i'll clean up in the morning.

Ok, I made a mess, i'll clean up in the morning.

Use the blitzer to get the consistancy you like.

Use the blitzer to get the consistancy you like.

A lovely christmas prezzy.

A lovely christmas prezzy.

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