Hot-headz Smoked Chilli & Garlic Sauce

Hot-headz Smoked Chilli & Garlic Sauce

Today's dish is also a big shout out for a fabulous sauce I've recently discovered an the most amazing shop I found it in.

Whilst visiting Brighton Marina to see my friend and great photographer Kirstie Blake at Eclectia Gallery I was introduced to Frank Jay and his amazing shop, the Chilli Shop, Frank stocks anything and everything you could possibly think of relating to chillis and lots of that you could never have thought of, more importantly Frank will take time and make a real effort to understand exactly what you are looking for, will help with ideas on how to use his products and generally help out.

There dozens of tasters out so you can try before you buy and with many of the locally sourced products frank can give you full provenance, you'd be amazed how many chilli based products are made in the South of England

Smoked Chilli & Garlic Hot Sauce from Hot Headz is a medium strength, smoky sauce which can be served a condiment, it will add a healthy but not over powering kick to chicken, fish, pasta or even eggs. With a good helping of garlic it creates a great rich, rounded flavour and certainly brought my dish of chicken breast with spaghetti and fried peppers to life. The flavour is long and deep, probably because of the smokiness and lingers in the mouth for a while, it's lovely and warming especially on a cod evening like we had in Southampton.

I'd certainly suggest this as a a great sauce for anyone who likes a kick to their meal and wants to bring a simple dish of chicken and pasta to life.

Suppliers

Smoked Chilli & Garlic Hot Sauce - Chilli Shop

Chicken, pasta & peppers - Tesco

Ingredients

- 1 large chicken breast, oven roasted

- 2 peppers, medium diced

- 75g spaghetti

- 1/4 jar of smoked chilli & garlic hot sauce

Method

Rub the chicken breast with a little oil and season with salt and pepper, place on baking tray on in a small roasting pan and cook for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and cover with a healthy layer of sauce and cook for a further 5 - 7 minutes.

Whilst the chicken is cooking boil your pasta as per the instructions on packet, once cooked to taste drain and place in a large bowl. Add 1/2 tbsp of sauce an toss until all the pasta is covered with sauce.

Whilst pasta and chicken are cooking dice the peppers and fry in a small amount of oil until soft and golden, season with salt to taste.

Once the chicken (slice and check its cooked through) is ready plate up/p>

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Enjoy

Wasabi Peas & Beef Jerky

Beef jerky new to those people at M&S who I was so mean to in my last post.

This time they've got it pretty right, the jerky is still a little moist for my liking but it is still very tasty with a good bit of spice.

Wasabi Peas, addictive is not the word they are amazing each one is like playing Russian roulette in you mouth. great stuff M&S a fabulous introduction to your snack range.

Cheeky chilli and rice

Cheeky chilli and rice. Why cheeky? Because as you may be a able to see from the first two photographs the bas e of the chill comes pre-made, by which I mean it was made by someone else.

The starting point for the dish is the ever so tasty bolognese sauce made by Natalie, this is by far my favourite bolognese, however, sometimes I like a dish with a little more kick. To do this I add the following:

- 1/2 can of red kidneys beans per person.

- a large squirt of Sriracha chilli sauce

- 1 fresh red chilli de-seeded

Simply add the bolognese base, beans, chilli sauce and fresh chilli to a pan heat for 5 - 10 minutes or until the beans are cooked to your liking an the dish s properly hot.

I served with brown rice, sour cream and coriander you can serve the that suit you possible with tortillas, however you have it.

Enjoy