Habanero Jelly

[trudy]

I have a bowl full of them and plan to make some jelly soon. Should have known not to plant 7 plants of these. Thought I'd share this recipe with ya I found online.

Habanero Jelly

# 3 ORANGE bell peppers, large, fleshy
# 5-10 chiles habaneros, ripe (original comment: "10 makes this stuff DEADLY")
# 1.5 C. vinegar, white, distilled
# 7 C. sugar
# 1 pkg liquid fruit pectin (Certo or equivalent)

1. Remove stems, seeds, and membranes from bell peppers. Remove stems from habaneros (and seeds too, if you want to take the trouble, but if you do you run the risk of removing membranes, too, which will reduce hotness of the end product).
2. Put bell peppers, habaneros, and the vinegar in a blender and process until smooth.
3. Combine pepper-vinegar puree and all the sugar in a non-corrosive pan.
4. Bring to a boil, reduce heat to a simmer, and cook for 20 minutes. Remove from heat and strain through cheesecloth into another pan. Add pectin and bring to a full rolling boil while stirring. Boil about one minute, remove from heat and ladle into sterile jars.
Yield: about 7 half-pint jars.
trudy

[chickenfarmer]

Thanx trudy.............I got plenty of em here, I was looking for a new recipe to try.

[lilsparrow]

Do you guys just spread this stuff on toast or tortillas and eat, then? Or are there other ways to eat it?

[glsirois]

Hot pepper jelly is great when you take a cracker, like a Sociable,
spread it with cream cheese and top with the jelly.
Yum!
;)Ginger

[trudy]

I also add it with other hot peppers, lots of my friends love hot sauce on peas and greens. I give them away for X-mas gifts to. But like glsirosi said they are good with crackers and cheese. Take a block of cream cheese and pour a generous portion of jelly over it, surround it with townhouse or your favorite cracker and you have a quick h'orderve in a rush. trudy

[lilsparrow]

Cool! Thanks ladies! I love to make jams and jellies, I think I will give this one a try!

[Laura]

We are planning on making some different types of things with some of the MANY peppers we have here..never had this many..last year they didn't do as well as this year..the plants are FULL.. & we have some HOT ones here..
I plan on making some for the Fair next year..

[lilsparrow]

I didn't plant habeneros this year, but I have a TON of Tabasco peppers~do you suppose I could substitute? And if so, about how many would you suggest?

[trudy]

Dap here is a Tabasco Sauce recipe I found online:
Homemade "Tabasco" Sauce

# 12 Tabasco chiles, * I used cayenne
# 1 clove garlic, peeled
# 1/2 cup herbed chili vinegar, ** I used apple cider
# 1/2 tsp salt
# 1/2 tsp sugar

In a small nonreactive saucepan (I used Visions by Corningware), boil the chiles and garlic in the vinegar until tender. Place in a blender with the salt and sugar and puree. Run through a metal sieve if necessary. Dilute this paste with more vinegar until it is the consistency of rich cream. Pour into a nonreactive saucepan, bring to a boil, then pour into a hot, sterilized bottle to within 1/2 inch of the rim and run a sterlizied knife around the inside of the bottle to release air bubbles. Wipe the rim clean and seal with a scalded top. Store in the refrigerator after opening.

I got this recipe from Red Hot Peppers by Jean Andrews. Simple to do. Smells up the kitchen with the hot vinegar. My DS had to run upstairs to get away from the fumes. It was really smelly but it looks like the real thing once it is done.

Then you can use the sauce to make the jelly. Here is Tabasco Jelly recipe (from online), I've never made the tabasco jelly. But this way you have two recipes at least to use up all your peppers.

Tabasco Classic - Hot Pepper Jelly

Recipe Cuisine: Preserve
Recipe Category: Preserve
Recipe Serves: 6
Recipes Ingredients:

4 lg Red Or Green Peppers, Cored
3/4 c Cider Vinegar
- And Seeded 3 1/2
c Sugar
1 1/2 ts Tabasco Pepper Sauce
3 oz Pouch Of Fruit Pectin
Recipe Instructions:

We generally make our pepper jelly with aged Tabasco pepper mash from the factory to give it color and flavor. Although perhaps not quite as fiery, this simple recipe using the pepper Sauce makes a mellow, Spicy jelly. Spread cream Cheese on crackers, then top with a dollop of the jelly for a tempting morsel to serve with cocktails. Pectin is available in well-stocked supermarkets. Cut the peppers into large pieces, then coarsely chop in a food processor or blender. In a large non aluminum Saucepan over high heat, combine the peppers, Tabasco sauce, vinegar, and sugar. Bring to a boil and boil rapidly for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat and stir in the pectin. Return the pan to the heat and return to a boil. Boil the jelly for exactly 1 minute, then remove from the heat. Stirring frequently to prevent bits of pepper from rising to the surface, skim the foam off the top. Ladle the jelly into Hot sterilized jars, seal, and place on a rack in a deep kettle. Pour boiling water over the jars to cover by 2 inches and bring to a boil over high heat. Continue to boil for 10 minutes, then remove to a rack to cool. Makes six 8-ounce jars. From: The Tabasco Cookbook.

[lilsparrow]

Cool! Thanks alot! I will try both of them~that one plant has to have a good 20-30 chilis on it!! Maybe more!

[trudy]

Boy do habs hold up in the fridge awhile. I finally got around to making a batch of the jelly. Although I didn't have the bell peppers I did have an assortment of peppers that weren't hot and it made a pretty orange colored jelly. Sweet but not sweet, a heat that sneaks up on ya. At first you think you didn't add enough habs, then it gets ya. trudy

[chickenfarmer]

Wonderful recipe...

[Garden Happy]

Trying it out Trudy,Thanks!!!!

[trudy]

Love to hear if u like it. trudy

[Garden Happy]

Trudy, i made your jelly today,then i made chocolate candy with 1 teaspoon of the jelly in it instead of cherries,Hubby hated it ,BUT ISAIAh LOves the Jelly and the candy!!!!!! Score one for mama!!!!! Have to keep the teen boyhappy or he don't work HARD in the garden or turning the compost pile every friday!!!!! Thanks for the recipe!!!!!

[notherdigger]

Trudy, they won't last more than 2 to 3 weeks just sitting round. If you had a dehydrater handy I would dry them, cut in half, then drop em in a blender and ta da......pepper flakes that last practically for ever. I have bout a half gallon of the habs and bout the same of cayenne I grew this year. And bout 5 or 6 other kinds in various varieties, all pepper flakes.

[trudy]

Glad you liked it gardenhappy, Notherdigger I did some of that up to. Glad they last as long as they do cuz we really don't eat the spicy stuff. But I do like growing the hot ones, crazy huh.

[colorado]

I bought a small jar of hot pepper jelly years back to try and was good. Have always planed to make some. These all sound good. I was buying pepper sauce and with these peppers I grow now I could do my own. So far I just dried peppers.

I have habanero dried with seed and some with out. From here on I think seeded. Got another I dried I got from store before had them and I guess jalapeno. Not seeded. I thought I would like to make my own chili powder. Do you guys make that?. Sure save buying. DIL likes hot dry peppers to cook with. She grinds in mortor. She freezes some too. I have a couple other seasonings I want to make up. I have dried cayennes too. The mixtures at the store are just too high to buy. They are so handy to use.

[tink]

Hot pepper jelly is also good cooked with pork. Ham in the crockpot or western ribs. Well in my book anything is great with pork phat!

[notherdigger]

Well Trudy if it's crazy then I must be insane lol. I guess peppers are my passion as I almost always do good with peppers. I do use alot of hop peppers but I have a compulsion to save the powder and then I share it with people as much as I can. I'm a pepper fanatic I guess you could say. I probably have enough for me for years but I share alot. Guess its natural to gravitate to the things you seem to do best. Few years ago I was struck with bad acid reflux and felt real bad. Then started taking a tbs. of vinigar a day and haven't had much trouble since. Least I can still eat hot peppers. So everybody enjoy some healthy peppers for christmas. lol
Gonna try that recipe for sure, someone at a craft faire here was selling some.

[trudy]

[Penny]

Great recipes, thanks!!

[Laura]

With the peppers we are going to grow this year I plan on making some pepper jelly.
I so enjoy making different things for the fair.