Chutney recipes and other home food preserving recipes.
Feel free to email me recipes for posting or links, personally I'm always on the look out for ways to save vegetables and fruit from the garden.
If you want a particular recipe let me know, I probably have one.
This is a gorgeous golden yellow chutney that brings the colours of Autumn into your dining room for the rest of the year. This is the way to use up the pumpkin flesh from all those Halloween pumpkins! Save the pumpkin seeds, dry most of them in a low oven for a nutritious snack and save some to sow.
Ingredients
2 1/2 pounds pumpkin skinned and deseeded and cubed into 1 inch cubes 1 1/2 pound apples peeled, cored and chopped. 2 1/2 ounces fresh shredded ginger 3-4 red chillies deseeded and sliced 2 tbsp fresh mustard seeds 1 3/4 pints cider vinegar 1 pound soft brown or white sugar 1 tbsp salt.
Method
1. Mix everything except sugar and salt in a pan and bring to the boil. Simmer until pumpkin is tender. (It's all right to leave the pumpkin with a bit of a bite.) 2. Add the sugar and salt and return to the boil, stirring to make sure the sugar has dissolved. 3. Simmer for about an hour, or until the desired thick consistency has been reached. 4. Ladle into hot sterilised jars. ready to eat in one month and will last two years.
For a quick meal stir a couple of tablespoonfuls of chutney through some hot rice, or serve with curries or cold meat.
This is the best Preserving book I ever bought. It details basic techniques and equipment and how to use them, and moves on to some of the more complicated techniques. What I like the best though is that whatever part of the world I was living in at the time this book had a recipe for me. If you are more interested in freezing and canning then Food Preserving at Home may be a better choice.
I have moved around the world and collected recipes as I went. I made a few howlers because of assumptions that a tablespoon was the same every-where...it isn't. I have posted these recipes from my collection of grubby bits of paper, ripped out magazine articles and the patchy entity that is my memory, and so the units will vary.
The easiest way to get units you are familiar with is type the question into google.