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Chilli Jam

Posted on Sunday May 17, 2009 in Food

We found some delicious-looking chillies at the market yesterday: perfect for making chilli jam!

A good chilli jam is sweet, but not too sweet, and leaves a delicious heat in your mouth. This recipe is my own concoction, although jaymis has a good alternative, sans tomato

Ingredients

• 2 cans of diced tomatoes (I use roma tomatoes – cherry tomatoes would be a nice alternative)
• 5 chillies (more or less – do what you think is right for your audience) – seeds removed and set aside
• Garlic (I used 5 very large cloves – I suppose about half a standard-size garlic would be sufficient) – peeled and roughly chopped (chop it finer if you don’t like bits of garlic)
• 3 tsp tamarind paste
• 1 cup sugar (raw sugar works well – the more unrefined the better)
• 1 cup red wine (I used some leftover tempranillo )
• 1/2 cup fish sauce

Put all the ingredients into a largish saucepan, bring to the boil, then reduce the heat to very low. Cook for at least 2 hours, until such a time where you can see the mixture becoming non-runny.

Remove from heat, put into pre-boiled jars. Enjoy!