Tomato Chutney

[Ananke]

I have a carrier bag full of tomatoes and have been looking up chutney recipes (I've never made/bought/tasted chutney before) There are just so many variations that my head is kinda spinning so thought I would ask you guys.

Most recipes call for apples and sultanas which I don't have but could easily get tomorrow before I start cooking but are they needed or could I leave them out?

I have a courgette and some celery in the bottom of the fridge that needs used up, could they go in with peppers, onion, garlic?

If it was just for us to eat i'd just throw everything in and see what we get back but some of this will be given as gifts and I don't want it to be minging

Advice from you chutney makers would be very much appreciated.

[taff]

have a look for glutney [a river cottage recipe] it's all mix and match stuff
chutneys sort of sweet and sour so apples and sultanas etc give it the sweetness. you don't need them in every chutney recipe.

[Two_Sheds]

I don't use apples or sultanas in every recipe. Just make sure you taste it as you go, so you know what to add if necessary

[ginger ninger]

This is one I've made in the past. It lovely on a cheese sandwich or plopped at the side of a pork pie... yummylishess

TOMATO CHUTNEY

INGREDIENTS

3 lb (1.4 kg) ripe tomatoes
1˝ lb (675 g) cooking apples
2 oz (56 g) salt
1˝ pints (900 ml) vinegar
3 cloves garlic
2 oz (56 g) mixed pickling spice
2 teaspoonsful ground ginger
6 oz (170 g) brown sugar

METHOD

1. Skin and slice the tomatoes. Peel, core and slice the apples.

2. Put into a pan with the salt, vinegar, ground ginger and sugar. Add the pickling spice and garlic tied in a piece of muslin.

3. Bring to the boil and then cook until thick.

4. Put into clean, hot, sterilized jars and seal whilst still hot.

5. Label with contents when fully cooled.

Makes about 4lb.

ENJOY

[VirginVegGrower]

I do use one from Delia and it does use sultanas, apples and the likes, but it does taste good and goes best with a mature cheddar cheese sarnie

Don't you know someone with a cookers tree? You only need a few.

[taff]

nice one gn, there's another one for the stand

[Alison]

I've made some courgette chutney which was basically onion, tomatoes and courgettes. As said above, you can use pretty much what you want so long as you keep your fruit / veg weight right for the sugar and vinegar in the recipe. Tis all down to personal taste and what you have in anyway.

Tonight I'll be making some more tomato and chilli dipping sauce which is as follows:

2lb tomatoes (chopped into chunks)
5fl oz water
2 chopped garlic cloves
4 bay leaves (torn)
10fl oz vinegar (I use white wine)
3 teaspoons of onion seeds
4 ish chillies

Disolve sugar in water
Add all other ingredients and bring to boil, stir every now and again
After 30 to 40 mins it should have started to thicken but check consistency for your taste
Remove bay leaves
Put into steralised jars

Willl keep for over a year if you have enough left. This recipe will only make a couple of jars, I'll be making mine with 8lb of tomatoes later. Make it every year and it's one of OH's favourites. Gave my brother some for Christmas last year and he's now making his own. The original recipe is adapted from a mango chilli recipe in an Indian cookbook but I like this better and I don't grow mangoes

[Ananke]

Well, what a lazy so and so I am. Still haven't made it yet but went out tonight and bought cooking apples but not sultanas, i'm not that keen on them, will subsitute them for red pepper. Forgot to look for muslin so will opt for grating the garlic etc. Thanks for all the replies, i'll let you know how it goes.

I'm sorry I looked up all these recipes, i've also bought stuff to make "Branston" Pickle and Picallili and picked more crabapples and elderberries today.......... OH says i'll do anything to get out of housework