Indian chutneys etc
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
- Place sliced onions in a bowl of ice water and put in fridge for an hour. Drain and dry
- Mix all the other ingredients with the onions. Leave in fridge for 45 minutes before serving
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- Roast the chillies and garlic in a hot oven for 5-10 minutes till browned but not burnt.
- Remove stalks and put all the ingredients in a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer gently for 10 minutes
- 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.