numex twilight--what do u do with them?

[tbone0122]

a neighbor gave me a numex twilight pepper plant years ago. i travel ALOT and ive given almost everybody ive met along the way a plant or 3 off of peppers that ive dried out and started new plants. my question is this------WHAT CAN YOU DO WITH THE PEPPERS AS FAR AS USING THEM FOR COOKING AND EATING? does anybody have any recipes for them or any ideas on different uses for them?

[zazen999]

Hi
thanks for this; I've just googled it and found out that the hot pepper plant I bought in the South of France 2 months ago is one. I wondered what it was as it had no label; it just looks good.

I use mine in pretty much anything that calls for a little heat. I've found that 2 of them will provide mild heat in a 2 person chilli; so 4 would be needed for a hot chilli.

Mine go into pasta sauces, omlettes, rice and bean dishes, curries, chillis as mentioned, and salads. if I had more, I'd use more. I just chop them and they go into the pan the same time as the garlic; or they get chopped and sprinkled on the top of salads, or in potato salads just finely chopped and added to the mix. Good also in with roasted veg, i do mine with chopped onion, garlic and chilli sprinkled over the top.

Hope that helps - what do you use them for currently?

[tbone0122]

thanx alot. i have made pepper sauce with mine but thats about it. i usually just drie the seeds and start more plants and give them away. i will keep these ideas in mind.

[maximepaul]

Dried Red chillis of most varieties will dry nicely on a window sill takes approx 3 weeks to dry store in a jar they will last up to a year and can be added to loads of dishes soups stews risotto's etc (the list goes on don't want to bore anyone!!)

[BarleySugar]

I used my red ones fresh today, a good handful or so I suppose, but I didn't measure how many I used. I made a lovely hot chilli jam, very similar to the one we bought on holiday last year for £4 a jar!
I made the recipe up, but basically I stewed the seeds and inside membranes with a load of ripe red tomatoes and sieved out all the seeds and skins. This resulted in 1.5 pints of 'hot' tomato juice, then I added a kg of bramley apples including skins and pips, and a pint of water. I sieved this again once the apples had disintegrated, added the chopped chilli flesh and 1lb sugar to each pint of juice. The jam has set really well, and has a lovely flavour, hot, but not 'blow your head off'.

The only problem I have is that I had no gloves, and although I have been very careful not to touch eyes, nose etc, my hand have been burning all day, especially around the quick and under my nails. Washing up was agony.

[maximepaul]

oh i know what you mean BarleySugar fingernails feel really tender if you chop quite a few. Im usless i try my hardest to be careful and still end up an hour or so later forgetting and catching my eye or nose!!!

[rana]

Numex Twilight keep well in pickling vinegar and a small jar of them makes a nice little gift. As for recipies, I like to drop 4 or 5 whole in to Thai curries, to provide that occasional explosive mouthfull.