Chutney
Well although not much is going on in the allotment right now we are cracking on with our Christmas gifts of chutney and marmalade.
We have apple jelly and rhubarb chutney in the cupboard from earlier this year, have just made orange and ginger marmalade (not with homemade ingredients!), and have made the first batch of tomato and chilli chutney which has our chillies and garlic in it. I got this recipe from someone on the Guardian forums and it always goes down a storm:
Sweet Chilli Jam
This makes a pathetically small amount, in my opinion. So I double it. Or quadruple it (amounts in brackets are for the quadruple amounts which makes approx 5 x 8oz jars).
2 (8) cloves garlic, chopped
2 Inch (8 Inch) piece of fresh ginger, peeled and grated
3 (12) small fresh red chillies, deseeded if you wish, and roughly chopped. NB: you can use green chillis, but it may dull the eventual colour - doesn't affect the taste though.
8 oz (32 oz) tomatoes, skinned and chopped; you can use tinned tomatoes if you wish.
1 tsp (4tsp) vegetable bouillon powder
2 fl oz (8fl oz) cider vinegar
5.5 oz (22 oz) soft brown sugar.
Prepare all the ingredients down to and including the tomatoes. Put them, and the bouillon powder, into a blender and blend to a smooth puree.
Pour the puree into a pan and add the vinegar and sugar; stir well. Bring to the boil then reduce heat to a simmer and simmer for 30 minutes until thick, stirring occasionally and ensuring that it doesn't burn. Test for thickness/set on a cool plate, as you would with jam.
Cool slightly, and pour into sterilised jars and seal. If not using immediately, store in a cool dark place. Once opened, keep refrigerated.
It is lovely stuff and this batch is very hot! Our chillies are very spicy and we left the seeds in. Once we have made another 2 batches or so we will dry the rest of the chillies on strings hung up in our kitchen so that we have them for the rest of the year.
Do beware if you make this chutney as it gets very spitty when simmering, our kitchen ended up speckled with red.
4 comments:
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That chutney sounds good-if I get tomatoes at the farmer's market this week I will surely try it.
Hope it goes well, but do wear an apron when doing it. The consistency of it means it bubbles and spits a lot!
Ours went down very well this year, lots of compliments.
Some of the recipes on your Caribbean Garden blog look great, I will have to try some of those out.
Thanks for the tip-I'll make sure and do that. Hope you try and enjoy some of my recipes. Nest week I am doing a Label cloud, so people can find all my recipes easily.
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