I made my first lot of Christmas presents for some friends on Saturday night. This fantastic recipe came from the fantastic book A Home Companion by Wendyl Nissen. The jam is super easy to make and smells and tastes wonderful. The jam is kind of like a sweet chilli sauce.
How to make chilli jam:
4 cloves garlic, peeled and chopped
1 tablespoon ginger, peeled and chopped
3 fresh chillies, chopped
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 teaspoon brown mustard seeds
50 ml red wine vinegar
500g tomatoes, chopped fresh or tinned
1 tablespoon fish sauce (I used vegetarian oyster sauce)
75g brown sugar or palm sugar
1/2 tablespoon turmeric powder
A handful of coriander, chopped
Grind the garlic, ginger, chillies, cumin, mustard seeds and red wine vinegar into a paste in a blender.
Pour paste into a heavy bottomed sauce pan. Add tomatoes, fish sauce, sugar and turmeric.
Simmer on a low heat for 40 minutes until it looks like a sauce. Add the coriander.
Sterilise the jars (I pour boiling water in clean jars).
Pour chilli jam into the jars while hot.
Yum!! would be so good with vege samosas, my new addiction 🙂 I’ve copied the recipe, how many jars does it make? xo
@Michelle That sounds so yummy! This makes about two and a half standard jam jars. Enjoy.
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This sounds really great! Going to try it, I have plenty chillies growing here 🙂