I love Peppadew peppers and for a few years now I’ve been trying to produce my own. It’s not possible to buy their seeds, but the common belief on the interwebs is that they’re actually Malawi Piquante peppers which are quite a tough variety to grow as they seem to need a very long season. Several times I’ve got them to the point of producing unripe fruit only to have the plants killed off by the first Winter frost.
The weather this year seems to have worked in my favour however. I did still have quite a few unripe peppers that I decided I’d use anyhow, but I also had some ripe ones.
I’ve pickled them in a sweet pickle using cider vinegar, honey, garlic, ginger and a few fenugreek seeds. If anything, they taste even better than the originals.
