Excess Green Chillies Ideas

conor678

Hi,
Got a load of spare chillies and I want to use them up cos don't like wasting food. Found a few tomato based chutney and salsa ideas and am willing to give them a bash but the recipes seem a bit heavy on the chillies and not too mad on tomato chutney.
Anyone any other ideas or previous experiences of using up excess chillies?

crow_eat_crow

If you bought some other stuff, you could make your own green curry paste. Loads of recipes available.
http://thaifood.about.com/od/thaicurrypasterecipes/r/greencurrypaste.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/greencurrypaste_67789

bonkey

They freeze fantastically. If you've the freezer space, you can just bung 'em into a ziploc bag and throw them in the freezer.

You can also make your own chilli oil.....chop them up, put into a bottle/jar of some sort, and then cover with a halfway-decent olive oil. Let it sit for a while, et voila.

I'd suggest chilli jam or sweet chilli sauce, but I've only ever used red chillis for that. green should work fine, but the colour could be a bit...well....odd.

Finally....pickled chillis are fantastico.

Improbable

I tend to get lots of leftovers and make salsa.

Swampy

I heard that if you are to freeze them, cut the green things off the top first.

Don't know why.