chilli wine anyone?

[kernowyon]

Whilst thinking of new ways to use my crop of chilli's I started trawling the net and found a recipe for chilli wine.

Has anyone ever made it or tried it?

[SarzWix]

No thanks...

Just wanted to say 'hi' though - haven't seen you about for ages

[Newton]

Wine with chillies is bad enough......wine from chillies?! Surely not!

Invest in a dehydrator and dry them to grind to powder.

Make chilli jam
Chiili sauce
Freeze them.........

Oh....and if you make some wine do tell us what it is like!

[zazen999]

Nigella's Chilli Jelly I find the best. Once it's got to jam setting point, put it through a sieve and collect all the chunky bits and put them into a jamjar on their own. I use this for all my cooking needs and the jelly for giving away as pressies.

[The Large One]

chilli wine...Mmmm

have tried chilli vodka, thats something to warm you on a cold camping night sat round a fire i can tell ya

[veggiechicken]

I tasted raspberry jam with chillies recently! An unexpected kick,......

[Newton]

Nigella's Chilli Jelly I find the best. Once it's got to jam setting point, put it through a sieve and collect all the chunky bits and put them into a jamjar on their own. I use this for all my cooking needs and the jelly for giving away as pressies.

Tried nigellas last year with cayennes. Superb and I shall try the straining this year. Just got some red peppers ready but the chillis are a bit behind. I intend to make some VERY hot jam.........just because I've grown some bhut jolokia and I can't just eat them!

[kernowyon]

And it's Go, Go, Go

just started off the chilli wine, wasn't brave enough to use my habaneros so used jalapenos instead (still after whizzing in the blender, I took a quick sniff as the lid was removed and it was a fairly eye-wateringly potent aroma)

[Florence Fennel]

chilli wine...Mmmm

have tried chilli vodka, thats something to warm you on a cold camping night sat round a fire i can tell ya

I'm interested to see how this turns out, I make chilli vodka for my youngest son every year for Christmas, though I've never tasted it.

[snakeshack]

made two gallons of chilli wine about 10 years ago for a £5 bet.I had told someone you could ferment any fruit and veg so he turned up with a 3 pound box of green chillies .The fermentation went quite quickly and it cleared to a pale greenish colour.Got some in my mouth whilst siphoning it into the bottles & it was like swallowing molten lead,had to use buttered bread to withstand the pain.
Smug friend turned up for the tasting 2 weeks later and I watched him drink two wine glasses which he said were great whilst changing to an impressive range of colours (apparantly it's dead macho to destroy your digestive tract )
Got my fiver though..........................he never took the rest of the bottles or indeed the open one.
Over the next couple of years I amused myself by leaving an open one on the side at parties, its always easy to spot the bring a bottle dodgers who turn up with 2 cans of 25p tesco's lager and then snuffle round what everyone else has bought