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Red onion chutney

 


Ingredients
1 onion, sliced
1 tbsp tomato ketchup
½ tbsp tomato puree
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp roasted cumin seed
salt


Method
  1. Place sliced onions in a bowl of ice water and put in fridge for an hour. Drain and dry
  2. Mix all the other ingredients with the onions. Leave in fridge for 45 minutes before serving

Dan Toombs https://greatcurryrecipes.net/2012/06/10/how-to-make-that-red-onion-chutney-that-restaurants-serve-with-papadams/

Mint chutney

 


Ingredients
200ml Full Fat Yogurt
small bunch Coriander Leaves
small bunch Mint Leaves
½ small Green Chilli
juice of ½ Lemon
¼ tsp Ground Cumin
¼ tsp Garam masala
pinch Sugar
Salt to taste
Tbsp of water
Method
Quantities of ingredients are a guide. Better to taste and add more or less as required.
  1. Place coriander leaves, mint leaves and green chilli in a small blender jar. Process smooth. Add 1 -2 Tablespoon of water to bring it together.
  2. In a small mixing bowl, spoon in the yogurt. Add the green herbs mixture, salt, sugar, cumin powder, garam masala, and lemon juice to the yogurt.
  3. Whisk them together, until well combined. Cover the bowl and chill until you are ready to serve.

Sandhya's Kitchen https://sandhyahariharan.co.uk/yogurt-mint-dip/

Mint Chutney 2

4 Tbsp yoghurt
4 tsp shop bought mint sauce
1 clove garlic
¼ tsp salt
½ tsp chilli powder
Method

Mash the garlic and salt to a paste. Mix with remaining ingredients, adjusting quantities to taste.

Piccalilli

see Piccalilli

Home-made Encona

50g Scotch bonnet or Surinaamse chilies
12g brown sugar
12g salt
2 cloves garlic
½ tsp Colmans mustard powdered
¼ tsp turmeric
¼ tsp ground cumin
1 tsp cornflour
50ml vinegar
  1. Roast the chillies and garlic in a hot oven for 5-10 minutes till browned but not burnt.
  2. Remove stalks and put all the ingredients in a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 10 minutes
  3. Blend till smooth.

adapted from lemonie https://www.instructables.com/Roasted-Hot-Pepper-Sauce-original-recipe/

Bottled pickles

Mango chutney

Sharwoods is ready good. Pataks is OK

Piccalilli

The classic is Haywoods but Heinz is edible. To blow your head off try a Suriname one called Madame Jeanette Piccalilly made by Lekker Bekkie

Pickles

My favourite if Patak's Mixed Pickle. They also do a lime pickle which is good

Branston's Pickle

The classic UK pickle for for the pub classic ploughman's lunch -bread and cheese basically.