What can I do with an over-supply of chilli's?

Hello!

I don’t have an enormous amount of success in the garden, but my chilli plants are producing chillis by the hundreds. I use them in a lot of foods that I cook, but there’s a limit to how much chilli you can use in a recipe, or indeed to how many different recipes you can use them in. Do any Mums have ideas on other ways that I can use or preserve the chillis? I give a lot away to neighbours, friends and family, but we’ve still got way more than we can use. I hate seeing them go to waste. Thanks in advance for your ideas and advice.

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- - mom112217 said
  - 27 Jan 2021
    6:44 pm
Lucky you ,l use chilli in pasta,pizza,Mexican meals and anything to give it a kick!
- - mom462038 said
  - 29 Apr 2020
    3:54 pm
I found the easiest, simplest way to store them for me is to freeze them. I just washed them, gave them a quick trim and popped them in a sealed bag
- - Ellen said
  - 11 Jun 2018
    7:48 am
You can make a nice chili paste and put them in jars. Also nice to give away as birthday / Christmas presents.
- - mom160421 said
  - 30 Oct 2017
    11:56 am
I would find a recipe to preserve them in jars with oil.
- - mom210653 said
  - 31 Jul 2017
    12:27 am
I find that they dry easily and can then be used all year round. Keep some dried seeds to sow when your chilli plants start to die off.
- - BellaB said
  - 23 May 2016
    10:55 pm
Can you freeze them? I’m not sure.
- - mum888 said
  - 02 Jan 2016
    11:56 am
Maybe find a recipe to make chilie sauce /paste and then put them in the jar for future use .
- - coastalkaryn said
  - 14 Sep 2015
    8:09 pm
we have a table at work that everyone puts their extra produce on and people take what they need. my brother makes a wicked chili jam and chili paste with his, and freezes them in jars
- - mom71809 said
  - 13 Jul 2015
    8:44 pm
Chili sauce, sweet chili sauce, chili jam freeze them
- - Jazbright said
  - 22 Jun 2015
    12:18 pm
Have one of our mums posted a chilli sauce/jam recipe? Also dehydrating?
- - maryphilip said
  - 13 Jun 2015
    9:34 pm
I dry them and grind them into flakes and chilli powder. They will last long if you keep them in air tight bottles.
- - Alicia said
  - 01 May 2015
    11:59 am
Make up a batch of chilli jam, its yummy on hamburgers or chicken burgers, you can give a jar to family members or sell them.
- - meimei said
  - 30 Apr 2015
    1:18 pm
Dry it so you can use it anytime you need.
- - nmbretag said
  - 28 Jan 2015
    6:11 pm
Plant them & sell the seedlings?
Hang them up to dry & then smoosh them into chilli flakes.
My husband also purees the fresh ones with sweet chilli sauce or vinigar & freezes it into ice cubes (or just by themselves).
Freeze them fresh.
- - mom93821 said
  - 01 Jan 2015
    5:46 pm
Also; give away as gifts to people.