Cookery: Mango Chutney – A Quick Recipe
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Well, mainly for dave, but also for those Indian food lovers I have had great fun chatting with these last few days - here is my Mango Chutney recipe.

Mango chutney is a starter to a good Indian meal - served with poppadoms (kind of large round chips) its sort of "chips and dips" if you like.

It also goes great in a sandwich or with cold meats and cheeses.

Ingredients

Two large mangoes - they should feel soft tot he touch and smell sweet when sniffed
1/2 tsp salt
1 large cooking apple
1/2 pint malt vinegar
1 cup raw cane sugar
1 large onion (finely chopped)
2 cloves of garlic peeled and crushed
2 inches of fresh ginger peeled and grated.

First step is to peel the mangoes - I use my boning knife as I do for pineapples - a large fruit needs a large sharp knife

Next chop the mango into small chunks. Work around the fibrous "stone (which is flat) in the middle and discard this. You need your mango flesh yellow and juicy. Any white bits are unripe - chuck 'em. Sprinkle the salt over the mango.

After this finely dice the onion. Peel the ginger (if it looks woody and fibrous its old stuff - buy some fresh that oozes juice) and grate using a fine grater. Cut the top and tail off your garlic and crush it using the flat of your knife blade and a fist (careful now). Finely chop the garlic and add it. Peel and core the apple and finely dice the flesh and add that.

Put the vinegar and sugar in a pan and bring to the boil. Stir constantly to avoid the sugar sticking.

Add the bowl of chopped mango, apple, onion, garlic and ginger. Bring to the boil and reduce the heat to a slow simmer. Simmer for an hour stirring regularly and frequently as it thickens.

With ten minutes cooking time to go, warm some mason jars in the oven. When the chutney is finished, spoon whilst stirring into the jars and screw on fresh seals and rings. The lids will "ping" an hour later. Heres a thought. a 1 pint mason jar costs $4 here - scary huh?

Mango chutney tastes like liquid sunshine.

Enjoy!

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