[oldwolf]

Has anyone got any experience of preserving chillies, I have frozen them in the past with mixed results.  I want to try to pickle them, got an abundance once again.

[Louise Gaunt]

I froze them successfully last year, I just put them whole into a zip closed plastic bag and use them from frozen and it seems to work well.

[Mammyshaz]

I've only tried freezing them. They were fine.
Going to try drying some this year since it's warm and dry.

[waddy]

The last crop I had before moving (2001) I char grilled the excess large varieties, skinned, de-seeded and froze them in ice cube trays so they were in handy sizes. The small thin varieties I put on top of our combination oven / microwave. The heat soon dried them. I then ground them up to use as chilli flakes. I am only just using the last of it and it has been fine.


Helen

[Bert]

I have never tried freezing chilli. Mainly because the thought never occurred to me 
I dry my chilli's, I tie them on string and hang them in the airing cupboard or over the wood burner. It works for me.

[ArosP]

I pickle them a bit like guerkins in a  briny liquid and put in with them cherry tomatoes and carrot batons and they are lovely-they look great and are really nice in sandwiches. Rather like the chilies you can buy in jars for mexican food. I will have to rack my brains for exact recipe but will try and post more info in next day or two. It is good with mild chilies like Hungarian hot wax(personal taste of cousre) and some hot ones in the jar to fire up the toms and carrots. I once worked for a turkish family who woul dhave a big bucket of these type of pickles by the back door and she put all sorts in but never onions as she said it over took all other flavours