Made-up Chutney (Tomato, Apple & Onion) Recipe - success!!

Made-Up Chutney Recipe

I’m not very good at following recipes. I think it’s because I am not very good at being told what to do. I had never made chutney before but it seemed like a good idea with the polytunnel so full of tomatoes and the tree so full of cooking apples.

I got some ideas from other recipes and then tried this combo:

2kg cooking apples, 2kg tomatoes, a couple of small green peppers and a couple of rose chillies from the polytunnel, a couple of large onions that have been drying out in the greenhouse, approx 300g Demerara sugar, a pint of vinegar (mine was mostly cider vinegar but with some malt as well when the cider vinegar ran out) some sultanas, 2 cloves of garlic, a couple of desert spoons of salt, a couple of curry powder, a teaspoon of cayenne pepper…. Think that was it… oh no…. about a pint of water too.

All looked lovely together……

Peeling and chopping took a while. Couldn’t decide what to do about tomato skins but in the end I took them off….

Looked a lovely marmalady colour whilst cooking but did stink out the house a bit and made my eyes water…….

End result……. After some 3 hours of bubbling away gently…… put into 8 sterilised jars.
The colour looks a lovely red/brown and it tastes delicious! Wow what a lucky success.

Next experiment..... can you make a chilli and garlic chutney? I'm thinking of my brother's Christmas pressie here! Any ideas or recipe suggestions?