Chilli jam

Another month has rolled by so quickly and this months cookery club challenge was making jam. I always like to buy and cook food in season, where possible. So I visited the market to see what I could buy.
There was quite a choice strawberries, plums and even some damsons, but they also had lots of cherry tomatoes going for a song! Last year I made some chilli jam, which my son was very keen on, so this is what I decided to make.

The recipe is taken from Delicious magazine

Ingredients

1. 2 tsp cumin seeds
2. 2 tsp coriander seeds
3. 750g ripe cherry tomatoes, halved
4. 2 onions, finely chopped
5. 2 fat garlic cloves, crushed
6. 2 large mild red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
7. 5cm piece fresh ginger, grated
8. 250ml white wine vinegar
9. 300g soft light brown sugar
10. 2 tsp fish sauce (nam pla) or soy sauce

In the picture above there is no ginger. I knew I had some and only found it after I had taken the photo. It was lurking in the depths of the deep freeze. I only learnt recently that you can freeze it, and grate it from frozen, but it worked really well.

Method

First of all I took the cumin and coriander seeds and heated them gently to bring out the fragrance, they did smell good! Then I crushed them in a pestle and mortar.
All the ingredients were then added to a pan (I used a wok) - what a glorious colour.

Then simmer until a jam-like consistency is reached and add the fish or soya sauce and cook for a further 2 minutes.

Take off the heat and spoon in sterlised jars and seal when still warm.

Serve with cheese and oat biscuits. It did taste good!

I am looking forward to seeing what other jams everyone in the cookery club has made. The other participants are as follows :-

Lucent Imagery http://www.lucentimagery.com/ (cooking club founder)

From River’s Edge http://fromriversedge.net/

Bakery Bookery http://www.bakerybookery.blogspot.com/

Anything Squirrel Squirrel http://anythingsquirrelsquirrel.com/

Chi Garden http://chigarden.com

Under Lock & Key  http://trishiekoh.blogspot.com

Adventures of the Ordinary http://adventuresoftheordinary.wordpress.com/

Christa to the Max http://christatothemax.wordpress.com/

Thank you once again Lucent for organising this fun challenge.

Sarah x