Welcome to the forum Debbie.
Yes, you can, but you may have to add a little more pectin to it as you will be boiling it at a high temperature to thicken it. I would boil it up till it thickens up, testing it on a chilled plate every 3 or 4 minutes. If it doesn't thicken & set add some bottled or powdered pectin. Or if you used cooking apples or crab-apples as the base jelly you could add more of those. You would have to make this separately, then heat up your chilli jelly & combine, testing again.
*Some of our other preserve-makers might have some other ideas.....they will be along soon I hope.
You could also use it as a chili dipping sauce........?
Good luck
Nadine /aka Hattie
"The beautiful is as useful as the useful...perhaps more so."
from Les Miserables
Hi Debbie, without seeing the recipe you used, it could be a variety of things, was it apple based or tomato?
could be the fruit/toms was too watery and not enough acid (lemon) or sugar has been added. I'd have a go at Hatties ideas first, if you have a few jars, you could tip one out and put it in a microwaveable container and try blasting it in the microwave for a few minutes, give it a stir and see if it's thickened, if it's not made any significant improvement, then it might be an acid/sugar issue
Yep, not enough pectin- a lemon or two should do it.
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Debbie Grant said:
Thank you both for the advice, am going to blast the jam in the microwave and test. I used chillis and red peppers, not an apple at all. Will try one jar and see what happens ... fingers crossed
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Hurrah! I squeezed some lemon juice into the jam, blasted the jam in the micro for 10 mins, tested it and bingo it set. Thanks for your advice ... I'm sure I will be back on site with more questions until then
I finally got around to making my chilli jam. I haven't tasted it yet but it seems to have set properly. It was based on this recipe.
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Try this link: the one Mike posted had a spurious extra domain in it, so it didn't even point to the BBC site! Looks delicious; I love chilli jam *bookmarked*
I was reading the comments on the recipe and had to giggle at this one:
"id like to try this but im not sure about the ginger quantity,what is a "finger" sized piece of ginger? is it literally a chunk the size of one of your fingers? if so which one? ive quite big hands so it could be overkill.any help appreciated, thanks."
The problem with the web address was caused cos I copied and pasted from my blog and that had mangled the address a bit
I'll try the jam with my lunch and report back later - I have no idea how hot it will be because my home made chillies are very variable in strength. At least it looks fairly good.
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