Greg's Chilli Jam

Karina "Teriyaki Chicken with broccoli is a super easy chicken recipe cooked in only 10-minutes, with no marinating needed! Crispy and juicy skinless chicken thighs, stir-fried and swimming in a beautiful homemade teriyaki sauce"

Ingredients

4 x original recipe

• 2kg ripe tomatoes, finely chopped

• 1kg white sugar

• 16 long fresh red chillies, halved, seeded (if desired), thinly sliced

• 1 cup (250ml) white vinegar

• 8 tbsp (120ml) lime juice

• 4 garlic clove, crushed

• 4 tbsp (60ml) fish sauce

Directions

1. Combine tomato and sugar in a glass or ceramic bowl

2. Cover with plastic wrap and set aside for 6 hours or overnight

3. Transfer to a saucepan

4. Add chilli, vinegar, lime juice, garlic, salt and fish sauce and place over low heat

5. Cook, stirring, for 5 minutes or until sugar dissolves

6. Increase heat to high and bring to the boil

7. Reduce heat to low and cook, stirring occasionally, for 30 minutes or until jam thickens

8. Remove from heat and cool

Recipe Notes

1. Greg The recipe calls for long red chillies with or without seeds, without seeds would be very mild, it is still mild with the seeds.  The comments below demonstrates some of my experimenting

2. Greg I use a big glass bowl with clip on lid for the overnight marinating

Comments

17 July 2013

• 500gm tomatoes

• Dash extra of everything

• 6 small red chillies with seeds from Shelley

• 35 minutes reducing time

• Quite a bit hotter than standard

21 July 2013

3 x batches using Roma tomatoes ex Drakes

1. original with 100gm deseeded long red chillies
   with half a lime of lime zest 1 hour cooking time

2. with 25gm deseeded small chillies from Shelley
   One hour cooking time

3. with 90gm Bishop's Crown chillies with seeds from Deb
   Also with half a lime of lime zest
   45 minute cooking time

All with freshly squeezed lime juice

28 July 2013

• 2kg frozen tomatoes from Deb Simpson

• 27 (280 gm) Bishop's Crown chillies from Deb Simpson with seeds

• Freshly squeezed lime juice, zest of one lime

• Reduced for over 4 hours, not stirred enough

• Medium heat chilli flavour

19 Jan 2014

• Chillies from Coffin Bay via Julie Hyde & Cathie Smith

• Apparently quite hot

• Truss tomatoes from Woolies

• 500gm tomatoes

• 60gm chillies

• 2 batches, one with seeds, one without

• Approx 45 minutes simmer time

• Taste test

• Definitely not as well cooked as previous batches

• May need to increase simmer temperature

• Katrina thinks more caramelisation required

• Reduced another 15 minutes much better

• Quite spicy

26 Jan 2014

• Greg's Black Russian tomatoes

• 1 kg 6 seconds in the food processor

• Woolies chillies

• 5.5 tbs lime juice

• Mild flavour

4 May 2014

• 2kg frozen tomatoes, Greg's Mr Ugly & Black Russian

• 150gm chillies mainly Katrina's red Wax chillies

• Quite spicy

25 May 2014

• 2kg frozen tomatoes ex Shelley

• 120gm Habenero & Firecracker chillies

29 June 2014

• 2kg frozen tomatoes from Pam

• 45gm Habenero

• 53gm Firecracker+

• 85gm Bishops Crown

8 Dec 2014

• 2kg frozen tomatoes

• 75gm Bishops Crown

• 58gm Yellow Wax

• Frozen Kaffir lime juice

• Very mild

2 Jan 2015 Wedding Production

2kg Greg's fresh tomatoes

Frozen kaffir lime juice

Batch 1 fresh tomatoes -Greg

90gm Habenero - Greg

33 x 55mm jars, spicy but not too spicy, this will be the hottest

Batch 2 frozen tomatoes -Pam

90gm unknown chillies - Greg

23 x 55mm jars very similar spice kevel to first batch, darker colour

8 Jan 2015 Wedding Production

2kg Greg's fresh tomatoes

Frozen kaffir lime juice

Drakes lo9g red chillies x 15 de-seeded

very mild flavour

added 4 x Jalapeno with seeds for a mild chilli hit

29 x 55mm jars

9 Jan 2015 Wedding Production

• 2kg Greg's fresh tomatoes

• Frozen Kaffir lime juice

• Drakes long red chillies x 15 de-seeded

• very mild flavour

• added 8 x Firecracker chillies with seeds for a mild chilli hit

9 Jan 2015 Wedding Production

• 2kg Greg's fresh tomatoes

• Frozen Kaffir lime juice

• 64g Katrina's Yellow Wax chillies

• 26 x 55ml jars, lovely mild flavour

17 Jan 2015

• 2kg Bill & Jackie's tomatoes

• Frozen Kaffir lime juice

• 57gm Firecracker

• Quite spicy

18 Jan 2015

• 2kg Jane's cherry tomatoes

• Frozen Kaffir lime juice

1 Jan 2016

• Super hot batch for BMS

• 500g mixture of frozen chillies, some shredded, some chopped

• Jalapeno, Habanero, Firecracker, Birdseye and a few from Bill

• Standard amount of kaffir lime juice 

• Double fish sauce and garlic

• No tomatoes

• 1x red onion

• 100gm brown sugar

• Very hot but remarkably tasty

1 Jan 2016

• 2 mild batches

• Frozen tomatoes from Greg and Neil

• Frozen Bishops Crown chillies from Deb Simpson

• Very mild, delicious

9 Jan 2016

• Frozen tomatoes from Neil

• 1 red onion

• 1 knob ginger

• 73 gm jalapeno chillies

• Medium spice

24 April 2016

• Frozen tomatoes from Neil

• 500g Pope's honey instead of 1kg sugar

• 400g Extra hot chillies from Tom Jones

• Knob of ginger x 3

• Brown onion x 2

• Extra half kilo of sugar

9 Mar 2024

• Yellow tomatoes from Turk

• Red chillies from Turk

• Followed original recipe

• Effed this one completely

• Should not have used the food processor

• Way too liquidy

• Took way too long to reduce

10 Mar 2024

Woolies Roma tomatoes

Woolies long red chillies

16 Mar 2024

• Woolies Roma tomatoes

• Woolies 40g Birdseye chillies (18)

17 Mar 2024

• Woolies Roma tomatoes

• 20 x Turk's chillies

• very low heat

• add 4  x Birdseye chillies 10g