Edible gift recipe for 4 - 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has bramley apple, eating apple, onion, red chilli, light muscovado sugar, cider vinegar, date, ginger, tamarind paste and salt.
Apple, date & tamarind chutney
Course: Edible gift
Servings
4 - 8
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Red Chilli: 1 large red chilli, deseeded and chopped
- Onion: 2 onions, halved and sliced
- Cider Vinegar: 250ml cider vinegar
- Ginger: 25g ginger, peeled and finely chopped
- Salt: 1 1/2 tsp salt
- Bramley Apple: 900g Bramley apples, peeled, cored and chopped
- Date: 100g stoned dates, chopped
- Light Muscovado Sugar: 400g light muscovado sugar
- Eating Apple: 400g eating apple, peeled, cored and sliced
- Tamarind Paste: 2 tbsp tamarind paste
Directions
- Tip all the ingredients, into apreservingpan. Warm over a low heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar dissolves. Turn up the heat a little, then let the mixture boil until the Bramley apples have broken down to a pulp, but the eating apples still hold their shape. Stir occasionally to stop the chutney from sticking. This can take from 45 mins to 1 hr. You can tell that it is ready by running your wooden spoon through the mixture. Your spoon should briefly leave a channel in the mixture, and there shouldn't be liquid pooling into the space.
- Whilst the chutney cooks, sterilise your jars (see tip, below). When the chutney is ready, pot the mixture into the jars. Can be eaten within a few days, but is best left for a few weeks to mellow and mature.Will keep for at least a year.
