Chili-Red Bell Pepper chutney
20 Oct 2011 Comments Off
Chili – Red Bell Pepper Chutney
My mom makes this awesome chutney/jelly; it’s made from hot peppers and red bell pepper. It has a little kick to it but at the same time taste sweet and sour. It is soooo yummy!! I’ve been wanting to make it for a while now, so I thought there is no time like the present. My mom uses probably Anaheim chilies since they are the only ones I’ve seen in Iceland. Like I said variety in Iceland is pretty scarce. I had the pleasure to get a hold of Thai Chilies, they are extremely HOT but they have a little sweetness to them. Sound weird I know but it’s true.
I got introduced to Thai Chilies by my friends Carolyn Xiong, Mailee L
or, Youa Chue and Nou Vang. They are Hmong and they introduced me to Hmong cooking. This is amazing! I’ll make some of the things they taught me at a later date!
Back to the Chutney, since I used the Thai chilies this was a kind of experiment to taste the hotness, so I pretty much added one by one and tasted. Kind of back fired of me, since I cut the chilies with bare fingers, which means that the hotness of the Chilies stuck to my fingers. Me being the silly person to taste the hotness of Chilies, pretty much had the burning taste in my mouth the Whole time. So the Chutney didn’t come out as HOT as I wanted but it’s still pretty hot.
I doubled the recipe and I had 8 Red Bell Peppers and cut them up and deseeded them. I put them in a food processor to mince them. The chilies like I said was by taste I cut them in half and deseeded them since the seeds are the hottest part of them. I added one by one until I thought the mix tasted hot enough.
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