At this time of year the greenhouse tomatoes are coming fast and furious in the lengthening sunshine and the chilli plants have given their all, so a wonderful way to create a reminder of summer during the winter days is this delicious chutney.
Ingredients:
- 4 lbs tomatoes
- 1 lb 6 oz onions
- 4 cloves garlic
- 5 small fresh chillis
- 1lb 6 oz sugar
- 5/8 pint vinegar
- 6 oz sultanas
- 2 ins piece of root ginger or 2 tsp ground ginger
- 2 tsp of dried marjoram or a bunch of fresh
- 1 tsp salt
- Couple of twists of black pepper
- 2 tsp black mustard seed (optional)
Method:
- Put clean jars and lids in oven at
around 120C for half an hour
- Chop onions into small pieces
- Chop garlic into tiny pieces or use a garlic press
- Wash tomatoes, remove stalk and any hard centre
- Chop the tomatoes inc skin and pips
- Chop chillies finely, similarly the root ginger
- Put all the ingredients into a heavy pan, preferably stainless steel. Cook on medium until the onions and tomato skins are soft then cook gently until it thickens up a bit. This may take an hour. Keep stirring so it doesn’t burn. It makes a fairly soft chutney.
- Put hot into the warm jars filling
them up to the top and put lids on right away. (I use lids with the button that
goes down when the chutney cools and stays down so you know the seal hasn’t
been broken.)
- Label and store. Ready to enjoy in
2-3 weeks.
I made a batch with 3lbs tomatoes – everything else pro-rata - and made 5 and a half 300g jars.
Download pdf of Tomato & Chilli Chutney recipe >>
(from my other website!)
