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As I promised, this is the first of the recipes from my first chili pepper harvest.
These in the pictures are Hot Jim, similar to the Big Jim: these chilies are hybrids, I love to harvest them green for this thai-style recipe. Use any variety of green chili, but hot and fleshy ones are better.

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Green Chilies with Sesame Paste

Ingredients
50g green chilies
2 tbsp sesame paste
1 tbsp fish sauce
1 tbsp lemon juice
1 tbsp lemon zest, minced
1 tbsp white yogurt
peanut oil

Directions
Cut the green stalk end off the chilies, cut each long-ways in half and scrape out the seeds if you want.
Stir-fry them in a pan with peanut oil until they start turning brown.
Prepare a sauce with sesame paste, fish sauce, lemon juice, lemon zest and white yogurt and mix the chilies with the sauce.

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Links
The other recipes from my chili harvest:
Yellow Chilies Omelette with Dandelion
Bruschetta and Roasted Chilies with Calamint Sauce

This goes to Haalo from Cook (almost) anything at least once who's hosting this week's edition of Weekend Herb Blogging.

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One year ago:

White Gaspacho

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