dimarts 28 de juliol de 2009

Homemade pickled chillies

I have been growing Cayenne chillies for 3 months. I sowed them on April and 2 months afterwards most of the plants began to produce peppers like these:

















Now, with dozens of peppers in my balcony I have decided to make my own pickled cayenne chillies.

First of all, I have collected some green cayenne peppers from my balcony plants.


After that I have set a glass jar and cap to a hard boil in order to sterylize it.



On the meantime I have mixed equal parts of wine vinegar and water and I have added salt and some dill to this mixture. I heat this mixture and let it boil for some 10 minutes. After that I let it chill.


I put the cayenne chillies in the glass jar...



And fill it with the water/vinegar/dill/salt mixture.



The last step is a bain-marie for about 10 minutes of the sealed jar.


And ready! I will taste it at the end of August or at September to check it is edible and apt for human consumption.

But that's not all! Wait!

Important detail: LABELING!

and...