508282 Fri Apr 11 06:11:46 -0700 2008 6 31 Home Cooking 0 3583611 I've just bought Fuchsia Dunlop's book Sichuan Cooking, which was COTM for March. One of the specialist ingredients needed is pickled chillies, which she says are not available in the UK at the moment. On the COTM thread, people were mentioning that they'd made their own, but there's no recipe in my UK edition. Can anyone help? I'm dying to get started! (I know that I can subsitute sambal oelek, but I'd like to have a go at making the chillies anyway.) Thanks. Fri Apr 11 06:11:46 -0700 2008 110146 greedygirl 1 3583646 Heya--would this thread help? http://www.chowhound.com/topics/427327#2808022 ~TDQ Fri Apr 11 06:30:29 -0700 2008 3583611 12005 The Dairy Queen 2 3583664 Thanks TDQ! I now see why I couldn't find the recipe - wrong book! I think they're slightly different to the Sichuanese ones (no sugar, spices etc), but I'll definitely give it a go. Fri Apr 11 06:37:57 -0700 2008 3583646 110146 greedygirl 1 3583699 I think salted chilis are different thatn pickled chilis. Salted chilis are from TDQ's link. But the pickled chiles are just that. Pickled and you can buy it in a jar and then run through a food processor. Here is a link that goes towards fish fragrant tofu (LOP). http://www.chowhound.com/topics/494666#3488745 Edited to add: Here is Rubee's picture of the jar of pickled chilis. http://www.chow.com/photos/152449 Fri Apr 11 06:54:46 -0700 2008 3583611 10214 beetlebug 2 3583720 Those are the viciously hot Thai ones though, right? I thought those were the ones she doesn't recommend using, apart from whole, because they're too spicy. Fri Apr 11 07:04:01 -0700 2008 3583699 110146 greedygirl 3 3583784 They are thai peppers, but to me, not overly spicy. The really spicy thai ones are those bird chilis. Those are really small. Those pickled ones worked really well for that tofu recipe. I used red chili peppers for my salted chilis. They looked like those thai ones in the jar but they weren't labeled as such at the store. I will be tasting this salted chilis for the first time tonight. I can't wait. Fri Apr 11 07:26:22 -0700 2008 3583720 10214 beetlebug 1 3584012 not having the book myself, i found this website to be very helpful: http://www.tigersandstrawberries.com/2007/08/15/homemade-hunan-salted-chilies/ Fri Apr 11 08:52:19 -0700 2008 3583611 56183 soypower