Chilli Up North Blog

I’d bought an Old El Paso Crispy chicken fajita kit  a while back and not used all of the seasoning for some reason, when I discovered the leftover packet in the cupboard I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. As much as I’m not a fan of the kits and preffer to [...]

This was the final course in our Mexican Feast, it was probably one of my favourites, I served it with loads of homemade home grown tomato spicy salsa and cooling guacamole. This is yet another recipe from Mexican Food Made Simple by Thomasina Miers, although I used butternut squash instead of onion squash  and used red onion [...]

A couple of days ago I recieved a press release along with this delicious sounding recipe that I thought some of you might like, obviously I’d spice things up a bit with a little bit of chilli and by using a hot and spicy chorizo. There’s also a chance for the budding cooks reading this [...]

This is a bit of a work in progress but I thought I would share it in case any of the vegetarians out there could give me any tips on getting it to bind together a bit better. I did think an egg would would but not sure if I like the idea of egg [...]

This is a beefed up version of the curry I used in some prawn puri that I made a few weeks ago, while the puri were a huge success the curry was without doubt the star of the show so here’s the recipe, I will post the bread recipe at some point too. Serves 4 [...]

This recipe is taken straight from Jamie Oliver’s website and Jamie’s America Book, I made it last night and it was absolutely delicious, the only thing I changed was I used a bit less stock (5ooml) and chucked in a big squirt of spicy chipotle sauce. I used Morrisons the Best Pirri Pirri Sausages to [...]

I’m a huge fan or Middle Eastern food and flavours, I am also a huge fan of good quality roast chicken. The seasoning for the meat takes some of the flavours from a pretty awesome Jamie Oliver recipe that he used on tray baked lamb.  The carrot and orange salad is the same as the [...]

Regular readers of the blog will know I’ve posted a couple of burger recipes before (including my favourite spicy chipotle burger recipe) tonight I tried yet another recipe, mainly because I quite fancied something simple but with lots of easy trimmings. It went something like this. This makes 4 burgers or 2 really big ones…I made 4 [...]

This recipe is virtually the same as the recipe I posted on my non chilli blog but It doesn’t use the chips and adds a bit of heat so If you would prefer it with out the heat check the recipe for my normal home made gryos recipe out here. I replaced the chips in [...]

Once a week we like to have a vegetarian meal, these spicy vegetable tarts were this week’s meal, you could of course add a couple of slices of chorizo picante, chicken or parma ham if you want to add a bit of meat. You could also replace the peso with ready made spicy pesto or [...]