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Mr Vikki's Banana Habanero Chutney

Mr Vikki's Banana Habanero Chutney

This needs some awesome music playing and a deep voice booming over the surround sound system “4 Years In the Making. Made to a Secret Recipe. Hand made only in the Lake District. Mr Vikki’s is pleased to present his new epic production Banana Habanero Chutney

This Chutney has the rare distinction of two gold great taste awards in both 2009 and 2010′s competition, now I have made a few Banana Chutney’s in my time so I feel well placed to judge this one.

After just cracking the top of the jar, you can smell the banana’s and just a hint of the ginger, the jar is full to the top, the chutney is thick with nice banana flesh, well mixed into it are the other ingredients, the ginger and banana are a great combination, but the coconut add greatly to the texture in the mouth and is a nice surprise flavour.

Ingredients: Fresh Bananas (65%), British Sugar, Fresh Ginger (5%), Vinegar, Coconut, Habaneros (5%), Bhut Jolokia (1%), Spices, Rapeseed Oil, Mustard, Salt.

Jar kindly provided by Mr Vikki’s

After the initial flavour comes the warmth of the Habanero’s backed by some Bhut Jolokia, this stuff is full of flavours, and for the use I have it mind for it it will need to be able to stand out, tonight I am cooking a curry, not very hot, I do have a family, but what is left in the jar will act as the perfect condiment and complement my fruity curry.

This is a excellent chutney, very much in the Mr Vikki’s style of flavour first, it is not massively hot, but it brings a nice tingle to the lips, and the banana almost cools you down as you start.

Just one thing I need to point out with this chutney, most banana chutney’s go dark brown as the banana oxidises during cooking, but not this one (the picture does not do it justice), the colour is like fresh mashed banana, the texture is of cooked banana… must be a Mr Vikki’s secret (Must ask him how he does that!).

At only £2.75 per jar Mr Vikki’s product are always amazing value, we know he only uses the best ingredients, and is very skilled in the kitchen, but £2.75 makes this a complete bargain.. So off with you now visit the web site or hunt this down, his list of stockists on the web site.

Flavour
(9.5/10)
Heat
(4/10)
Packaging
(8/10)
Value
(10/10)
Overall
(9.5/10)

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My wife is lactose intolerant and therefore has a problem with many Indian recipes as they use Ghee (clarified butter) and Yoghurt in a lot of their recipes. So I created this recipe to create a creamy mild curry we can both enjoy.

Ingredients:
1 – 1.5 Kg Chicken pieces (Drums and Thighs are best)
4 Medium red Onions, halved and thinly sliced
1 Small Cauliflower, cut in to small florets
250 g Small Mushrooms, quartered
150 ml Coconut Milk
4-5 Celery sticks, chopped
4-5 tsp Curry Powder
50 g Ground Almonds
50 g Raisins
4 Cloves Garlic, crushed
Olive oil for frying

Place a large pan on a low heat and add a little oil, once up to heat add the onions, chicken and curry powder, then turn up the heat and fry the chicken until lightly browned.

Now reduce the heat to a low simmer and add everything expect the cauliflower, simmer for an hour, you could do this in a slow cooker for a few hours in will just improve the flavour.

Then for the last 20 mins add the cauliflower and stir will in.

Best served with rice or naan bread.

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The Chilli Garden

The Chilli Garden

The Chilli Garden – Organic Hampshire Chillies – Based in a wooded vale on the Surrey/Hampshire border The Chilli Garden seven acre’s are farmed by three generations of the same family. Between them Father, Daughter and Son-in-law; Peter, Alison and Mik, have wealth of experience in farming, food production and design enabling them to make everything on the farm themselves.

Wahaca Looking for Chilli Expert – Wahaca, the Thomasina Miers chain of MLots of review and new preoductsexican restaurants is looking for a chilli expert to help them create a showcase for the joys of growing chillies, from how to plant, pollination and harvesting.

Darth Naga Reviews:- Mr Vikki’s Hot Lime Pickle – Well, the elections are upon us and I find its quite easy to get bogged down in political debates and other nonsense so I decided to take myself away from it all for a moment and write a review on one of “Mr Vikki’s” amazing products! Mr Vikki has had a couple of reviews on this site so far and I am sure that as long as he keeps making quality chilli products then we’ll keep on reviewing them!

The ChileFoundry Forum Experiment – We have been looking at opening a user forum for the past 6 months, the object of the forum is our users to discuss products and suppliers, post recipes etc etc.

Men purchase chilli four times more than women? – Men purchase chilli four times more than women reports AUSVEG as part of Australia’s Vegetable Industry Development Program, I guess that is comes has no real surprise, it seem to be mostly men I deal with when reporting for this blog.

Chilli Pantry – Quality Mexican Chillies in the UK – A new retailer for 2010 is the Chilli Pantry, set up by Gina Porras-Parral to sell a range of premium quality Mexican ingredients at affordable prices, based in Brimingham web site currently sell a range of authentic mexican dried chillies.

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The Chilli Factory - Fiery Frillneck Hiss

The Chilli Factory – Fiery Frillneck Hiss – Hot Smokey Chilli Tomato Sauce – This sauces comes all the way from Australia and has won a number of awards in its home country including 1st prize for Best Hot Sauce Tomato in the Australian Fiery Food Awards in August 2004 as well as a handful of 2nd and 3rd places in other events.

Good Eats – The Big Chili Recipe – I came across these video’s on You-Tube, and it seems like an excellent recipe, so we decided to collected the list of ingredients and the listed some places you can find them here in the UK.

Mr Singh’s – BBC1 High Street Dreams – What a great opportunity for Mr Singh’s Punjabi Chilli Sauce. I don’t think they could get a better plug for the sauce than BBC1 High Street Dreams

HillBoy from Gurkha Fine Foods – This is billed as “The Ultimate Chilli Experience – A Condiment that bites back!” and I think it is a first for us to be reviewing a Gurkha product. The Gurkha people are from Nepal and North-East India, the name coming from a Hindu warrior-saint Guru Gorakhnath.

Cambridge Chilli Farm – Ghost Pepper 10 Review – While at the Firey Foods Festival in Brighton, Chris & Rosie Jagger from Volcano Chilli asked me when I was going to review a sauce that they have found to be an excellent seller, Chris then sent me another bottle, he said that the recipe has been improved from the original version.

Chilli powder put in husbands pants – According to the Cambridge News Sharron Mackay the defendant in a fraud trial put chilli powder in her husband’s underpants as their marriage fell apart.

Orange Krush Hot Sauce – I’ve been sent a bottle of “Orange Krush” to taste and give my (expert? lol) opinion on, this sauce again comes from www.Hot-headz.com and i believe is the only place in the uk you can buy it, i say this as after a brief search using the trusted google, hot-headz was the only one that came up in the uk!

Could you eat “Probably the World’s Hottest Curry” and win £100 – Fire Foods and local Grantham’s Bindi Restaurant are putting down a challenge to anyone who thinks they are tough enough!

Lady Bird Johnson’s Pedernales River Chili Recipe – This recipe originally contained beef suet, but that ingredient was omitted after LJB’s severe heart attack when he was Senate majority leader. Remember to skim the fat off the chilli.

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Darth Naga reviews – Blair’s Ultra Death – Well its that time again chilefanz!! Today I bring you my latest video review, and I reckon this one may just go down in history as the second stupidest thing I have ever done (the first will hopefully be uploaded to youtube at some stage LOL!) stupid for the simple fact that after hearing from Rose Seymour that James beck said “we don’t use milk in our video reviews in the US” I decided to hit the bottom end of mental and do a vid review WITHOUT MILK!! But anyway, the sauce I am reviewing today comes from the godfather of the US hotsauce scene Mr Blair Lazar himself, and this particular sauce is famous for not only being the hottest sauce he mass produces, but also for being one of the only ones to have its name changed during his major rebranding last year!

David’s Chilli Oil – Much more than just a gourmet oil – This is not just an “Oil and Chilli” blend; there is a whole extra level of flavour to be found here and with Rape seed oil becoming the New Olive oil, its time may have come. I am sure you will see more and more gourmet products based on Rape seed oil.

ChilliPepperPete’s Easy Fish Jambalaya Recipe – Jambalaya is a Louisiana Creole dish of Spanish and French influence, it is a close relation to the Spanish paella. This version is made a little quicker and simpler by pre-cooking the rice, traditionally the rice would be added with the stock at the end of preparation and then cooked for 45-60 minutes.

Scott Roberts — Chilli Letter from America #6 – It’s hard to believe it’s already May of 2010. Soon, people all across America will be doing outdoor grilling and barbecuing, celebrating Memorial Day Weekend at the end of this month, and wondering what to do with bored kids all day long now that school will be out for the summer.

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The Chilli Jam Man – The 3 Peaks Chilli Jam – RIGHT let me just start out this review by stating that i’m NOT a big fan of sweet chilli things..problem is people keep sending me sweet chilli things and they are slowly changing my mind!! Todays “Jam” comes from a guy that up until I received this jar and then added him on twitter I knew nothing at all about him, but after a bit of net sleuthing I found out a little.

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Hungarian Paprika – The chilli was introduced to Hungary by the Turks during the 16th-17th centuries; it was not until the 19th century that paprika become the dominant spice in Hungarian cuisine.

Top 10 UK Chilli Web Sites — May 2010 – The farmers are now the top 3 chilli web sites in the UK with the Dartmoor Chilli Farm jumping up 2 places to number 3 joining Chillis Galore and South Devon Chilli Farm in 1st and 2nd places.

Hot-Headz Calypso Caribbean Style Hot Sauce – Hot-Headz has been a leading supplier of Hot Sauces in the UK since 1994, owner Stuart McAllister has a passion for hot sauce both finding and developing the best sauces he can find around the world.

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Berberé (or Berbere) Recipe – A Hot Spice Mixture from Ethiopia. – Berberé originates from Ethiopia. It is a very hot dry spice mix and has become the basis for most Ethiopian cuisine. It should have a course texture, so don’t grind it to a fine powder.

The ChileFoundry YouTube Channel – Did you know we have our own YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/chilefoundry

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Another recipe from ChilliPepperPete, this time it is Moqueca a Brazilian fish dish from the Amazon, normally they use Piranha, but as this is not a local fish for us, any firm white fish will do.

Ingredients

500g Piranha (or firm white fish if you cannot get it!!)
3 Large Potatoes
200g Rice
200g Red Dahl
1 Tin Pinto beans
5-10 Birdseye Chillies
1 Onion
3 Cloves Garlic
1 Tin Chopped Tomatoes or fresh chopped tomatoes
1/2 Block Creamed Coconut
2 Lemons/Limes
1 Handful Coriander or Parsley
1 Stock Cube
Water

Instructions

  • Boil Potatoes and chop into 1/2 inch cubes.
  • Cook rice with the Red dahl and the tin of Pinto beans.
  • Roll over with a rolling pin a handful of birdseye chilli.
  • Finely chop the Onion and Garlic and lightly fry in a little oil, add the chopped tomatoes or fresh chopped tomatoes and the crushed birdseye chillis, add 500ml water with stock in.
  • Drop in the fish of choice and add 1/2 block creamed coconut and juice of 2 lemons or limes.
  • When fish is cooked drop in the potato, rice and beans and give it a good stir. Add more water if necesarry must be wet like a stew.
  • Before serving add a handful of coriander or parsley.

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