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RE: Making chili paste from home grown Trinidad scorpion peppers

in Foodies Bee Hive6 months ago

This is a really good way to have your chillies 'ready to use' at all times. I would like to add a little something to the recipe. Try it in this order: Instead of blending all the ingredients together and then boiling them down, start by sautéing the chilli (chopped), onion (diced) and garlic (finely chopped) in a pan with olive oil. It is important to add a little sugar at this stage so that the vegetables will caramelise a little. This will give a very special flavour to your puree. Then add the rest of the ingredients to the pan and blend with a hand blender.
Another tip: I hang the chilli peppers up to dry, and I also dry the rosemary, the thyme, and the basil. I then grind all of these together and mix them with some sea salt. This is how the spicy seasoning salt ends up in the jars. It lasts almost forever.

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Oh good idea, I will keep that in mind for next time I make it. Thank you for the suggestion.

I should start drying my peppers, so far we have used them up almost as soon as they are picked. But if we start growing more we will surely need to find a way to store them.

Thanks for your insightful comments, I really appreciate them.

When the chillies are ripe, I use a thin needle to thread them onto a string (similar to a string of pearls) and then hang them in a dry, airy place on the patio. When they are dried in this way, I have all the time in the world to think about what I would like to do with them. High on the list are sweet and sour dips or chutneys.