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Sweet Chilli Jam

By Chelsea's team of cooks, added 10 January 2011

Difficulty Medium Serves 2-3 medium jars RecipePrep time20 minutes RecipeCooking Time 60 minutes

  • Sweet Chilli Jam

Serve as you would a sweet chilli sauce, with spring rolls, fish cakes, barbecued meats or cheese. Mix a spoonful with mayonnaise for a quick chilli-mayo (great for burgers). To make a sweet chilli relish, substitute 500g tomatoes with 2 x 400g tinned tomatoes (drained) and cook until thick.

Recipe Rating: 5

Ingredients

500g ripe tomatoes
1 red onion, peeled and chopped
3 - 5 red chillies (3 = medium, 4 = med/hot, or 5 = hot)
5 cloves garlic, peeled
1 Tbsp fresh ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
30ml Asian fish sauce
300g Chelsea Caster Sugar
80ml white vinegar

Method

Finely chop half the tomatoes and set aside with the onion.

In a food processor combine the rest of the tomatoes, chillies, garlic, ginger and fish sauce, blend until fairly smooth. Put the blended mix into a saucepan with the sugar and vinegar; bring to the boil, stir regularly with a wooden spoon. Add remaining tomatoes and onion, reduce to a simmer for 40 - 50 minutes. Skim off any foam and stir often.

When thick and syrupy, remove from the heat and cool slightly before pouring into pre-sterilised glass jars. Store in a cool place and refrigerate once opened.

Makes approx. 2 - 3 medium jars

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Overall rating

Recipe Rating: 5

5 ratings, 93 people added this to their Favourite Recipes.

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  • 5

    This recipe was awesome!!! very easy to make, calls for unusal ingredients but makes it beautiful! quite hot, some people may want to reduce the chillies added :)

  • 5

    This is a great recipe, whenever I make it there is a queue of friends who want a jar. Really great with homemade bread and brie.