Cranberry Sauce with Turkey on Christmas Day.. well almost, this year we will be having Cranberry Kick from the Wiltshire Chilli Farm with our Turkey.
The Wiltshire Chilli Farm - Cranberry Kick
I eat Cranberry almost everyday as part of my weekday breakfast routine, I love cranberries.. This jar has been sitting here at ChileFoundry HQ, just willing me to open it, but like a good reviewer I have been saving it for Christmas, well popping of the lid was no disappointment, a lovely smell of Cranberries with a just slight hint of the Habaneros.
Ingredients: Sugar, Cider Vinegar, Cranberry (8%), red pepper, Red Onion, Apple Pectin, Habanero Chillies.
Jar kindly supplied by The Wiltshire Chilli Farm
Oooooh this stuff is lush (as my daughter would say), it is sweet, sticky and bursting with cranberries, with just that bit of burning on the tip of my tongue. This is the idea Christmas condiment for that day of excess, or even the days after with this in my turkey sandwiches, or with cold turkey and mash.. I almost cannot wait for stress of cooking at Christmas.
Jamie and Julie’s chilli business is new this year and they have already made some exceptional products, and have been great entertainment at the show and events, we look forward to seeing what they do in the new year.
If you fancy a jar of this you will need to jump over the The Wiltshire Chilli Farm Web-site and snag a jar ASAP. At £3.75 for a jar I am sure it will not hanging about long, I have got mine, if it lasts that long.. Note to self : Must hide it away, just 15 days to go..
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The worldwide production of peppers & chillies seems ever-increasing, the worlds largest producer is China with over 16,000,000* tonnes grown per year, production in China has grown 54% since 2000. Mexico is the number 2 by volume but a long way behind at just over 2,300,000 tonnes, a surprise to me was that Turkey was the number 3 producer at just over 2,000,000 tonnes, followed by Indonesia, Spain and the USA. (source pepperstoday.com)
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I picked up a packet of Kirmizi Biber from The Chilli Pepper Company while at the West Dean Chilli Fiesta, I have come across this on my travels, but not in the UK before. I remember it as a condiment we would sprinkle on our food to add a bit more local colour, a few bags from the local food market made it back to the UK in our luggage, but this is a bit of a distant memory of a trip to Turkey (well before the kids, so that is at least 17 years ago more likely 20 years).
The Chilli Pepper Company - Kirmizi Biber
So what is Kirmizi Biber, well its is a mix of Hot and Sweet peppers that have been salted and dried then roughly ground into flakes which are then rubbed with olive oil and then roasted until they start to blacken. the taste starts salty and then warms you gently the flavour is a rich mix of peppers intensified by the drying and roasting.
This is really great stuff to have about in the kitchen, sprinkle some on dips before serving, on scrambled eggs it is divine, a few teaspoons on the skin of a chicken before roasting, this is the condiment of a 101 uses.
You can get your own packet from The Chilli Pepper Company
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I first came across the name “Aleppo Pepper” in a sauce made by ChilliPepperPete’s son Wilf and decide to investigate it further, kindly Pete send me a pack of the crushed Aleppo pepper to try.
Crushed Aleppo Pepper
The chilli is named after Aleppo a city in northern Syria famous for culinary cuisine, being located on the Silk Road in and area of fertile land, it is one of the oldest inhabited cities in the world, dating back over 4,000 years.
The Aleppo pepper part of the Annuum species and it grown in both Turkey and Syria, and is also known as the Halaby pepper. The pods are ripened to deep burgundy colour and then semi dried, de-seeded and either coarsely ground or crushed.
The flavour is not unlike the Ancho, but oilier and with a hint of salt, I have been told that salt is often used in the drying process. It is not a very hot chilli, with the heat building slowly, but it is packed with a fruity raisin-ish flavour.
If you find a shaker of chilli flakes on the table on your next holiday to Turkey, it is probably Aleppo flakes. I remember these from a trip to Turkey in my youth, but at the time did not know much about the varieties of chillies to even ask about them.
They can be used anywhere you would normally use chilli flakes, I have been using mine in all sort of cooking and especially sprinkled on Pizza’s, they also add a flavour to rice, I have added some to the water during cooking.
You can purchase crushed Aleppo Pepper direct from ChilliPepperPete
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