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Fire Roasted Hatch Chili Relish

Published: Sep 11, 2012 · Modified: Jun 13, 2022 by Rose McAvoy · This post may contain affiliate links · 8 Comments

Make a relish from fire roasted vegetables | Our Lady of Second Helpings

I have come to the conclusion that late summer produce is the sexiest of all the produce.

Unlike their bright and cheerful spring cousins, late summer fruits and vegetables have spent months carefully maturing. They linger on their vines and branches swelling throughout the intense heat of midsummer. Their flavors become fuller, more concentrated, while we enjoy a relationship with far less commitment to things like flirty strawberries and endearing petite peas.

Late summer fruits require eaters to take more time.  Thought must be taken as to where and when we can pause long enough to savor peaches and nectarines engorged with juices that will fill the mouth and stream down bare arms. Jealous tomatoes angrily spew their seeds back at anyone who treats them too carelessly. And peppers. Oh Peppers. At first crisp and bitter under the stare of amber sun they slowly soften turning sweeter while simultaneously increasing in fiery intensity. Yes. Yes! These are the sexiest of all the foods.

Make a relish from fire roasted vegetables | Our Lady of Second Helpings

Fire Roasted Relish

This is a mildly spicy-sweet leaning relish that can be used as a condiment with grilled meats, on sandwiches or burgers, and anywhere you want a fresh burst of flavor. Choose the heat level of chilies that suit your pallet. The vitamin content is high and the calorie load is negligible so heap it on.

Makes approximately 1 pint of relish.

Ingredients

  • A heap of Hatch Chilies (I used about 7 smallish mild heat and 5 larger medium heat)
  • 1-2 large Red Bell Peppers
  • 1-2 large slicing tomatoes
  • ½ - ¾ teaspoon salt (coarse Kosher salt recommended)

Method

Hatch Chilies on a Grill

  1. Get your grill blazing hot, around 500 degrees, and arrange your peppers and tomatoes so there is space for the heat to circulate around them. Lower the grill cover but check frequently.
  2. The skins will begin to blister and crack.  Turn them every few minutes until the outsides have fully blistered and charred.
  3. Remove as they finish roasting and place into one or more plastic bags with the tops twisted or zipped shut.  Allow the roasted peppers and tomatoes to steam in the bag for at least 10 minutes.  This loosens the charred skin from the soft flesh.
  4. After 10 minutes and have passed and they are cool to the touch; peel away the tough outer skin.
  5. Be cautious handling the chilies as the chemical that makes them taste spicy may irritate skin and care should be taken to keep it away from your eyes.
  6. Carefully slice peppers so the seeds may be mostly scraped away.  Leaving some seeds will give your relish a bit more of a kick.
  7. Once the desired amount of seeds are removed, chop the bell pepper and the chilies into ½ inch or smaller squares.
  8. Chop the tomato until it looks more mashed than chopped. This is the saucy bit that holds the peppers together.
  9. Combine all three chopped ingredients in a jar, top with salt, cover, then shake to mix.  Eat immediately or refrigerate to be used within 7 days.

This article gives a slightly more complete how-to for roasting peppers.

Relish with fire roasted tomato, chilies, and peppers

Large Mushrooms and green chilies

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Comments

  1. Carole

    May 17, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    Carole's Chatter is collecting links for jams, jellies and relishes today. This is a nice one. I do hope you pop over and link in. This is the link . Cheers

    Reply
  2. Hannah

    September 13, 2012 at 9:48 am

    Oh my, you definitely livened up summer produce! We can't get enough of hatch chiles...I just learned you can freeze them after you grill, so I'm loading up our freezer. Beautiful photos - your mushroom burger has my stomach rumbling. :)

    Reply
    • Rose

      September 13, 2012 at 2:22 pm

      I was just wondering if they freeze well! How are you packaging them?

      Reply
      • Hannah

        September 13, 2012 at 4:19 pm

        I put them in a freezer safe container and then wrapped plastic around to make sure it's airtight. I haven't defrosted any yet, though, so we'll see - a friend from NM shared this tip with me and assured me that they'll be wonderful. Can't wait to eat some in January!

        Reply
  3. Conscious Consumer (@korkin14)

    September 12, 2012 at 3:15 pm

    Summer produce is deifnitely so sexy and my favorite time of year. Lovely post!

    Reply
  4. emmycooks

    September 11, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    I think I'm blushing after reading this! Enticing for sure.... :)

    Reply
    • Rose

      September 11, 2012 at 9:25 pm

      Lol! I thought "health food" could use a little pep. :)

      Reply
      • emmycooks

        September 11, 2012 at 10:52 pm

        You are a great spokesperson on its behalf. I'm sold! :)

        Reply

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