Home made chutney

the beer revolu

Made my first chutney yesterday - reckon it's gonna be really good given a few weeks to settle.

Anyone interested in the recipe?

Alun

I could do with one for using some of my nice green tomatoes that are still stubbornly refusing to ripen, if that's what you made yours from?

xxdilemmaxx

I was thinking of making chutneys or relishes for my family as part of their Xmas pressies (need cheap ideas for these troubled times we live in )

Would a chutney keep from now until Christmas?

Would be interested in your recipe anyway!

the beer revolu

Yup, green tomatoes.
I only had a small amount so this recipe only makes about a jar and a half - scale it up to suit your amount of fruit.

My tomatoes were sort of half ripe so if yours are very green you might need a little more sugar.

Having read dozens of recipes, this is what I came up with and on first taste it seems to really work.

300 gms Green(ish) tomatoes
100 gms Eating apple (peeled)
100 gms Onion
50 gms Raisins

250 ml Cider vinegar
150 gms Brown Sugar

Small piece fresh ginger (size of a garlic clove),peeled
1 tsp Yellow mustard seeds
1/2 tsp Corriander seeds
6 Pepper corns
1/2 tsp Salt
pinch of Fennel seeds
1/2 tsp chili powder (optional)

Chop everything very finely
Put all ingredients in saucepan
Bring to boil
Simmer for 1 1/2 hours
Pour into sterilised jars.
Wait for a month if you can for everything to mature and meld.

Should keep for at least a year

Alun

Thanks, that's great! I Googled "green tomato chutney" too and came up with so many different recipes it was dificult to decide which one to go for. I'll have to get some jars though, don't have any empty ones at the moment. Was that 1 1/2 normal jam jar sized jars that those quantities made?

the beer revolu

Alun wrote: »

Was that 1 1/2 normal jam jar sized jars that those quantities made?

yes. One jam jar and one small mustard jar.

simonj

Nice one, will give it a shot

Minder

simonj wrote: »

Nice one, will give it a shot

Nice timing on the answer there, pondering were you?

simonj

C'mon - just put the kitchen garden in this year, give a ad a chance