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Chili and Red Bell Pepper Appetizer

Chili and Red Bell Pepper Appetizer is a delicious, hot dip to add to your cheese platter. Great small jars make perfect gift for your foodie friend!

Course Appetizer, Canning / preserving
Cuisine Mexican
Keyword Chili and Red Bell Pepper Appetizer
Total Time 1 hour 40 minutes
Servings 5 jars
Author 2pots2cook

Ingredients

  • 4 red bell peppers ( 1 lb )
  • 10 fresh red chilis, 1 inch long
  • 1 cup vinegar
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 cup sugar

Instructions

  1. After you wash the bell peppers, clean them and take the seeds out.

  2. Cut the bell peppers to quarters and chop to get small parts. It should give approx. 4 cups in total.

  3. Clean and finely chop chilis. I suggest using gloves for this part!

  4. In a pot, on light heat, boil bell peppers, chilis, vinegar, salt and sugar for one hour.
  5. Remove from fire, rest it for a while to cool a bit and pour all together to a blender to make puree.

  6. Warm the oven (150 C / 302 F) and put 5 clean glass jars into it to become hot.

  7. Return puree to pot and cook for additional 15 minutes.

  8. Fill the glass jars, close them, turn them upside down for 10 minutes and return them to normal position.
  9. Leave to get cold.
  10. Serve with cheese, grapes, pears, taralli and prosciutto.