Saved our share of chillies from the CSA for a few weeks (could only harvest 4/adult/week **) so I could start a batch of fermented sauce.

One onion, some garlic, a bunch of chopped chillies in a 5% salt brine with black pepper & Sichuan pepper. Will ferment it for a couple of weeks before turning it into sauce by adding it to some cooked bell peppers & maybe some more onion.

I know using a zip bag filled with water is not the best. I have to find some weights that fit this jar.

** At the end of the season I will probably be harvesting a LOT of chillies because we're one of the few members that like spicy food.

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There is nothing sweeter than the sound of a jam jar lid going "POP"

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Continuing the spicy theme: chilli pepper jam.

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Step one in making super tasty hot sauce: fermenting the chili peppers in a 4% salt brine.

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A while ago (I won't confess how long ago) I put a jar of minced Lila Luzi ( https://fryd.app/en/library/plants/7588-chili/varieties/1560-peperonililaluzi ) in the pantry to ferment in a 3% salt pickle solution.

Today I processed the long fermented mash with some onion, garlic, sugar and apple cider vinegar into a delicious flavourful and spicy hot sauce that builds up and hits you when you no longer expect it.

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Sixth week of harvesting hot peppers in the greenhouse of our #csa and stringing them with cotton yarn, so we can hang them to air dry in the nice dry & warm entry hall (thanks inverters!).

We will be set for the winter 😊

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When life gives you hot peppers...

Or in this case, the csa farm 😉
You dry them to have enough for the winter!

Convection oven at 95°C, 5 or so hours. (check every now and then to make sure they don't burn, remove the dry ones).

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