Chillies In Oil

[cecil39]

I have done some chillies in olive oil for the first time, I grilled the chillies cut them up and put them in hot jars and poured the hot oil in, they looked lovely, but after a couple of hours the oil has turned cloudy, is this right? if not what have I done wrong? and will it be fit to use?

[Buenchico]

Oil that absorbs some moisture from whatever's in it tends to go cloudy. (Check out the contents of a chip pan if you doubt that!). A bit of googling suggests that it often happens with chilli oil, as seen among the comments here:
http://www.thechilliking.com/chilli-oil-recipe/
However it shouldn't make any difference to the actual quality of the product.

[Old_Geezer]

I see that recipe used dried chillies.
Now you need to buy a chilli drier ;-)

[woofgang]

thread then on a string and hang them in a warm place.

[cecil39]

Thanks Buenchico, I did not boil the chillies in vinegar though, so it looks like I can save the day by adding some into the jars now and it should be ok.