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Our Top 10 Chilli Recipes

I’ve been receiving a lot of mail from readers recently about our recipes. We’ve been posting chilli related recipes on the site for quite a while now so I thought I’d pull together a list of our top 10 most popular recipes we’ve posted here on the ChilliKing over the last few years in case you missed any of them.

1. Chilli Oil

Without doubt our most popular recipe. Simple to prepare and incredibly flexible we always have a couple of bottles of chilli oil in the kitchen and use on top of pizzas/pasta, in salad dressings or as a regular cooking oil to add a bit of heat.

2. Chilli Chutney

This chutney recipe is perfect for the end of the summer when you have plenty of fruit and veg kicking around and needs using up. I have to ration myself with this chutney as it is highly addictive!

3. Chilli Con Carne

What can i say, no list of chilli recipes would be complete without a chilli con carne.

4. Chilly Jelly

Great with cheese and biscuits or in toasted sandwiches this is a classic recipe.

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5. Lime Pickle

You won’t go back to shop bought jars of lime pickle once you’ve tried this recipe. Quick to make, authentic and delicious.

6. Aubergine Curry

This is probably the most unusual recipe on the list. It’s an authentic Indian curry recipe I learned a few years ago on my first visit to India.

8. Tomato Sauce

This is probably my most used recipe. Easy to make and incredibly flexible it forms the base of most of the dishes i cook ranging from pasta, pizza, tomato based curries, soups and stews. I can’t beleive I used to buy ready made tomato pasta sauces….

9. Scotch Bonnet Sauce

If you love hot peppers then this sauce will be a big hit. Simplicity is the key with the only ingredients being scotch bonnets, vinegar, salt,, sugar and water. It is seriously hot and revels in the great taste of Scotch Bonnets. This is my personal favourite.

10.Spicy Cous Cous Salad

Fresh, healthy, easy to make and delicious, what more needs to be said?

So there we are. I hope you’ll give some of these recipes a go and be sure to get in touch if you have any killer recipes you’d like us to post.

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Buy Chilli Futures!

I was interested to read in the press that chillies are trading at an all time high. This article describes how the this years poor crop due to flooding and bad weather across India, Bangladesh as well as flooding in Pakistan and China has cause a poor quality crop and lower yields. As a result of last years stocks running low, the price of chilli futures has been soaring.

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In fact I read elsewhere that a new Indian variety of chilli called ‘Badiga’ was sold for Rs10,300 a quintal, the highest price ever recorded at Asia’s largest chilli market in India.

Rising commodity prices and increased inflation of food prices are rarely out of the news at the minute. Rising demand and a lack of supply are the two main factors driving up chilli prices.

With Interest Rates at an all time low here in the UK, maybe buying chilli futures is not such a bad idea?!

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Over Wintering Chillies – New Growth

Well for quite a while now my chilli plants that i am over wintering have been looking increasingly dead.After trimming them back in December, the plants have been looking so dormant i thought they were dead. First of all the stems took on a hallow look then the stems themselves started to turn black in colour which is never a good sign.

Despite appearing dead I have kept the plants inside and tried to keep them on a sunny windowsill as much as possible. Something that I haven’t perhaps done enough is move them away from the windowsill when the night time temperatures have been really low. As a result the cold drafts and low temperatures may have taken their toll on some of the plants.

However, I’m pleased to report that at the weekend one of the plants (an orange habanero) started to show signs of life. A couple of fresh shoots of growth have popped out of the dead looking stem.It just goes to show that you need to be patient when over wintering as it had crossed my mind to throw the plants away a couple of weeks ago.

It must be said that this plant had the least black looking stem of the plants so i suspect it may be the only plant to survive the winter. That said i’ve moved all of the plants to the sunniest window in the house and have even started to draw the curtains for them at night!

Time will tell if any other plants have made it through the winter. If not i’ll have at least one plant with a massive head start for the 2011 chilli growing season.

Have you over wintered any plants? We’d be interested to hear your success/failure stories. Just leave a comment below.

Related: Be sure to look at our ultimate overwintering guide.

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