What chillies in Salsa Macha? You can use whatever dried red chillies you fancy, smoked or unsmoked. This red chilli paste wasn’t a smoked chilli condiment to begin with, but chipotles seem to be quite popular for many. Personally, I much prefer the non smoky version. What chillies you use will also affect the heat […]
How do you Spell Chilli? (Or is that Chili? Or Chile?)
I hope you enjoyed that. Look out for the next episode in this series, when we’ll talk about the Scoville Scale, and briefly touch on varieties of chilli. Lin xx
Pilpelchuma, a Libyan Jewish Red Chilli Paste Recipe and Video
This is a very easy recipe, and doesn’t need any cooking apart from the couple of minutes of dry roasting the 2 whole spices, cumin and caraway seeds. This Libyan Jewish chilli paste was introduced to the world at large when Jerusalem was published, the book by Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi. And I’ve had so […]
