Name: Hot Chilli Honey - a perfect Christmas gift!
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 1 min
Ingredients: 450g runny honey; 4½ teaspoons dried chilli flakes, or to taste; ¼ teaspoon fine salt; ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper; 1 tablespoon and 1½ teaspoons apple cider vinegar

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Hot Chilli Honey: deliciously sweet honey, slightly salted and spicy from hot chilli flakes and freshly ground black pepper is an incredibly useful condiment to have in the cupboard at any time of the year and makes a wonderful Christmas gift. It complements a range of winter recipes and can be used to quickly brighten many quick and easy dishes; a wonderful way to impress over this busy Christmas season!

I first posted this @casualfoodist recipe (see details below) last March but, recently, I have made up lots of jars to include in my Christmas hampers and give as gifts. It is exceedingly quick and easy to make, using 3 basic ingredients plus some salt and pepper, and can be used in so many different ways:

Baked Camembert with Hot Chilli Honey

Baked Camembert with Hot Chilli Honey is exactly as you would imagine – luscious, rich, creamy, dreamy, hot, baked Camembert drizzled with sweet, seasoned, runny honey with a deliciously warm and spicy kick.

Camembert Baked in Puff Pastry and Served with Roast Pecan Nuts and Chilli Honey

Ideal to tuck into whilst watching sport or a good film, wonderful after a long walk on a cold and blustery day and perfect after a few hours on the piste (or off the piste!), Camembert Baked in Puff Pastry and Served with Roast Pecan Nuts and Hot Chilli Honey, is a slight twist on this luscious, seasonal winter favourite.

Burrata cooked in Filo Pastry with Roast Vegetables and Hot Chilli Honey

Hot, dreamy burrata cheese cooked in crispy filo pastry, served with roast cherry tomatoes, pepper/capsicum, garlic, olives and basil, all drizzled with hot chilli honey. Oh. My. Giddy. Aunt!! Charlotte and I were certainly giddy with excitement when we ate this for lunch recently.

If you don’t like/don’t have any burrata, replace it with any of the following cheese for a slightly different and still fabulously delicious take on this recipe:

mozzarella cheese
feta cheese
saganaki cheese

Photograph of Burrata cooked in Filo Pastry with Roast Vegetables and Hot Chilli Honey — **Burrata cooked in Filo Pastry with Roast Vegetables and Hot Chilli Honey**

Roast Parsnips, Carrots and Brussels Sprouts with Hot Chilli Honey

If you would like to add a little spice to your roast vegetables, why not use some use some Hot Chilli Honey? It will add a lovely warmth as well as delicious sweetness to your dish. I love the chilli heat and think it works wonderfully well, even with a classic roast.

Drizzle over Pizza:

Up your quick fix, speedy meal by cooking a shop bought pizza and drizzling it with Hot Chilli Honey before you serve it. Here, I cooked a Pepperoni Pizza and, when cooked, threw on some fresh rocket and drizzled it with this delicious honey. Sooooo good.

Hot Honey Chilli Cocktail Sausages

No Christmas Day, Christmas party, Christmas film or Christmas meal is complete without cocktail sausages – however many fancy pants nibbles and treats you make, these are always the first to disappear.

Top Tips

The recipe is from the fabulous Brianna @casualfoodist; she has many wonderful recipes. Tap on the link to go straight to her website.

Also:

If you are making up a lot of jars for Christmas gifts – make sure you make an extra large one for yourself!

Christmas Gifts:

If you are making jars of Hot Chilli Honey as gifts this Christmas, I recommend:

printing out the recipe at the bottom of this post to accompany the honey. Simply click on the ‘print icon’ under the small photograph to the right of the recipe title. Not only does it share the recipe, in case they want to make some for themselves, it shares the link to the recipe and therefore access to the ideas showing how the honey can be used.
you may also want to consider printing out the recipes above showing how the honey can be used. Simply click on the link under the photograph to take you to the dish in question and scroll down to the end of the post to find the recipe. Print using the print icon button.

**Make sure at least one of these jars is for you!**

How to make Hot Chilli Honey

Collect all your ingredients together:

runny honey
dried chili flakes
fine salt
freshly ground black pepper
apple cider vinegar

Make the hot honey:

Put the honey, chilli flakes, salt and pepper in a saucepan.
Bring to a simmer for 1 minute.
Take off the heat and add the apple cider vinegar.
Allow to cool a little and transfer into a sterilised, heated jam jar with a lid. (See Recipe Notes on how to sterilise the jam jars.)
Seal with a lid and store in a cool, dark place. Hot Chilli Honey does not need to be stored in the refrigerator. Voila!

1 Put honey, chilli flakes, s&p in saucepan.

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