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Saturday, December 25, 2010

Tomato chilli jam

Made this in the Summer with a glut of tomatoes and chillies from the Haymarket.  It was really good - balance of sweet and savoury, hot and sour was all there.  Recipe is on the back of an envelope I am using to store stamp edges for jamjar labels in - I just know I am going to lose it or forget it's there...

400g tomatoes
9 red peppers
9 red chillies
6 garlic cloves
thumb sized ginger chunk
700g sugar
200ml cider vinegar / balsamic vinegar / other

I modified this: used only 1 red pepper and more tomatoes.  Only had those big long slim red chillies so used a quantity of those that I thought would give a good level of hotness.  Used a mixture of balsamic, rice and distilled white vinegar.  The balsamic gave it a good, earthy depth of flavour.  Overall, the stuff was reminiscent of sweet chilli sauce in a jamlike form, and very more-ish.

1) finely chop tomatoes, peppers, chillies (wearing lab gloves), garlic, ginger

2) put sugar and vinegar in a pan and stir til sugar dissolved.  Add other stuff and simmer til reduced  / thick and sticky (think ~45-60min)

3) Bring to the boil - cook on high 1 min.  Put into sterile jars.

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