Habanero Apricot Jelly
photo by Smilyn
- Ready In:
- 5hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 6
- Yields:
-
6 half pints
ingredients
- 157.80 ml diced dried apricot
- 354.88 ml white vinegar
- 118.29 ml diced red bell pepper
- 4 habanero peppers, diced
- 1419.54 ml white sugar
- 85.04 g packet certo liquid pectin
directions
- Using a food processor, finely mince the diced apricots.
- Place the apricots in a large stainless steel stockpot, add the vinegar and cover. Let the apricots soak in the vinegar for at least 4 hours (can be left to sit overnight if you'd like, but 4 hours will do the trick).
- Using a food processor, finely mince the red bell pepper and habanero peppers.
- Place the apricots, vinegar, peppers, and sugar in a large stainless steel stockpot. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring to make sure all the sugar dissolves.
- Once the mixture has reached a full rolling boil (a boil you can not stir down), it will double in size. Stirring constantly, keep at a full boil for one minute.
- Remove from heat and whisk in pectin and continue to stir for 3 minutes - this helps to evenly distribute the apricot and pepper pieces throughout the jelly.
- Ladle the jelly into sterilized canning jars, leaving 1/4" headspace. Wipe the rims of the jars with damp paper towels to remove any jelly which got on the rims or the threads. Place the lids and the bands on the jars, just tightening the bands fingertip tight.
- Process in a boiling water bath for 5 minutes, then remove and let sit, undisturbed, for at least 12 hours before checking seals. It is important to let them sit undisturbed for 12 hours because the sealing compound on the lids is still cooling and hardening, completing the seal. While the jars cool, you will hear a "plink" type sound from each jar - this is the jars completing the vacuum seal as the final air escapes the jar. After 12 hours have passed, remove the bands and check the lids - press down in the center of the lid. If you cannot push the lid down any further, the jar is sealed. If the lid "gives" a bit, and you can push it down, the jar did not seal. You can either put the band back on the jar, and reprocess it for another 5 minutes, or you can just put it in the fridge and use it within 3 months.
Questions & Replies
Got a question?
Share it with the community!
Reviews
-
Just made this today and came out with 6 half pints and a small instant serving for us from the residue on the pan (picture). I will be using this for a unit picnic that's coming up this week. I used 6 habaneros, thinking I would need to add more. Good thing I only started with 6 because it came out a a perfect high heat, even the hubby thinks it's hot enough - and he loves heat. This would be great on cheeses, dipping for dumplings or spring rolls, and glaze for BBQing. I think I'll add red onion next time. It came out to this beautiful orange jam because I used fresh apricots instead of dried, I reduced the vinegar to only one cup because of the change from dried to fresh. Thanks for the recipe.
-
I love this recipe! I have made mild apricot pepper jelly, mild apricot onion pepper jelly, and today I used a mixture of dried apricots, dried mango and candied ginger with habaneros. Turns out spectacular everytime I make it. I'm really impressing people with the cool jellies that I can make with this recipe. As soon as I can find dried peaches(can't find them in any store!) I will make it with them :)
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
<p>I'm originally from Atlanta, GA, but I now live in Brooklyn, NY with my husband, cat, and dog. I'm a film and video editor, but cooking is my main hobby - if you can call something you do multiple times a day a hobby. <br />I enjoy all types of food, from molecular gastronomy to 70's suburban Mom type stuff. While I like to make recipes from cookbooks by true chefs, I don't turn my nose up at Campbell's Cream of Mushroom - I'm not a food snob. <br /> I love foods from all nations/cultures, and I am fortunate enough to live in NYC so I can go to restaurants which serve food from pretty much anywhere on the globe. Because of this most of my recipes tend to be in the Western European/American food tradition - I find it easier to pay the experts for more complicated delicacies such as Dosai, Pho & Injera. I really enjoy having so many great food resources available to me here in NYC. One of my favorite stores is Kalustyan's http://www.kalustyans.com/ <br />they have every spice, bean, & grain in the world. If there's something you can't find, look on their website. I bet they'll have it and they can ship it to you! <br />Many of my recipes are Southern, because that's the food I grew up on. I hope the recipes I have posted here will be useful to folks out in the 'zaar universe! <br /> <br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/Adopted1smp.jpg border=0 alt=Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket /> <br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/smPACp.jpg border=0 alt=Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket /> <br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/PACfall08partic.jpg border=0 alt=Photobucket /> <br /><img src=http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b399/susied214/permanent%20collection/IWasAdoptedfall08.jpg border=0 alt=Photobucket /> <br /><img src=http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e110/flower753/Food/my3chefsnov2008.jpg alt= /></p>