Straightforward Cowboy Sweet Recipe

I’ve fallen onerous for this simple cowboy sweet recipe (aka candied jalapeños). With the proper stability of candy and spicy, that is the perfect factor we’ve made in our kitchen recently, and so they go together with virtually something!

I critically can’t cease sneaking these candy and spicy peppers onto my plate. The jar has been out for each dinner recently. In the event you’ve by no means tried candied jalapeños, contemplate this my mild nudge to strive them.

You don’t have to be a grasp canner to make this cowboy sweet. It’s tremendous easy and retains within the fridge for months!

Key Elements

• Peppers: I exploit recent jalapeño peppers, however you may experiment with different peppers on this recipe. I additionally go away my peppers entire and don’t take away the seeds or membranes (the sugar syrup tones the warmth of the peppers fairly a bit). If you would like a light consequence, you may take away the seeds and membrane, the place a lot of the warmth lives. Combine hotter peppers with the jalapenos for spicier cowboy sweet, or substitute all of them collectively.
• Garlic: Sliced uncooked garlic provides taste and curiosity. I really like the candied sliced garlic as a lot because the peppers.
• Vinegar: For the perfect taste, I exploit apple cider vinegar and distilled white vinegar. Reducing the apple cider vinegar with the white vinegar retains the syrup from tasting an excessive amount of like an apple.
• Sugar: This can be a candied jalapeños recipe, so that you’ll see a superb quantity of sugar known as for in our recipe under. As an alternative of a brine, the sliced peppers sit in a vinegar-sugar syrup.
• Turmeric: Improves the colour and taste of the peppers as they sit within the jar. We additionally use turmeric on this recipe for bread and butter pickles.

The key to our candied peppers lies within the candy and tangy syrup, a easy mix of apple cider vinegar, white vinegar, sugar, and a contact of turmeric. After the sugar dissolves, add your sliced peppers and garlic. Switch the peppers to a jar, however hold the syrup within the saucepan to scale back it additional.

Don’t toss any further syrup—it’s liquid gold! I exploit it in marinades, dressings, cocktails, and even tossed with fruit for a candy and spicy kick.

Methods to Get pleasure from Cowboy Sweet

Cowboy sweet goes with nearly all the pieces! I promise, when you strive these candied jalapeños, you received’t be capable to cease including them to your plate. They’re improbable with sandwiches, sizzling canine, and burgers.I additionally love them added to salads, tacos, nachos, and scrambled eggs. They even make do-it-yourself potato salad, egg salad, and creamy pasta salad style higher.

Candied jalapeños are good for a charcuterie platter with cheese and cured meats. I really like them on bagels with smoked salmon and cream cheese. I wager they’d make macaroni and cheese higher, and they’re good with chili (see my favourite chili recipe or this Texas purple chili)

You may even add them to margaritas, different cocktails, or mocktails. I’m certain there are extra ideas (actually, these are superb). I’m excited to strive including them to vanilla ice cream (I’ll hold you up to date on that one). Tell us your favourite methods to get pleasure from them within the feedback!