I really feel this one deserves it's own thread! It's brilliant
... made it last night, used yellow plums not toms, 2 tsps of chilli flakes (from the pepper mill!!) and the cooking time to get it dark and rich and juice evaporated took 4+ hours. All veg off the lottie

Do try it

Glutney Chutney - River Cottage - HFW

Ingredients:
1 kg marrow, pumpkin or overgrown courgettes … diced 1cm … (discard big seeds)
1 kg tomatoes (or plums) diced and skinned & chopped discard seeds (stone plums)
1 kg cooking apples
½ kg onions chopped
½ kg sultanas or raisins
½ kg soft brown sugar
750ml cider vinegar – made up to 1ltr with water
1-3 tsp chilli flakes

For the Spice bag:

thumb sized nugget fresh ginger.
12 cloves
12 black peppercorns.
1tsp coriander seeds
few blades mace


Heat mixture gently, stirring occasionally to dissolve sugar, and bring slowly to the boil

Simmer 2-3 hours, [think again !!] uncovered, stirring regularly to ensure it does not burn on the bottom of the pan

The chutney is ready when it is rich, thick and reduced, and parts to reveal the base of the pan when a wooden spoon is dragged through it.

If it starts to dry out before this, add a little boiling water

Pot up and leave to mature for at least 2 weeks – preferably 2 months!

Enjoy!

that sounds delish I got loadsa whopping courgettes so must get busy. Never seen blade mace in the shop though

I treated myself to some swanky preserve jars too so got to get filling em

My pepper mill bust t'other day and I bought a new one, well two cos there was a BOGOF on so good idea about putting chilli flakes in. Never thoughta that, dunderhead that I am

Couldn't find my blade mace either, so used 1 tsp ground mace

I'm going down the chinese cash and carry later, they sell great bags of spices there so I'll have a look
If they do sell it I'll post us all some so we have it ready at glut time (especially Dom who is likely to be buried under courgettes by then )

I got the blade mace Flo but Tesco had no chilli flakes

Should I use a fresh red chilli do yer think or some dried chilli powder, say a teaspoon full I have both of those in store Can't wait to get going with it. Got some lovely jars

Think I would go with the chili powder, teaspoon at a time ... add and taste each time !! it's an easy way to get the 'heat' to your requirement!

I kept a few of my lottie chilis from last year and they dried out beautifully, just the job!!

After all this rain think I will be making another batch too !!!!
It cooks down really well, to a lovely rich dark shiney colour, I have never evaporated out so much moisture before, followed the method to the letter, and have to say it tastes yum!

My batch gave me 6 of those tall Bertoli jars full

Help

I cocked this up I copied Hugh's recipe off the internet. Why, when it was on here I ask myself Anyway it says on the recipe, 750 ml white wine, or cider vinegar. So I did just that and put white wine in it. I now realise it means white wine vinegar Not very clear though

Can I salvage the situation by adding cider vinegar to top it up as it evaporates or will be a crock of wotsit, and will it keep

Anyone

Double everything up, add a strong spirit vinegar instead of white wine or cider vinegar when you double it and then boil it down. If the spirit vinegar is twice the strength of the wine/cider vinegars are, then it'll be just as acidic as if you did it right in the first place.

Righto will do. that means going shopping - again Fed up with the whole idea now. The whole thing is bubbling away already Ade cos I'd made it before I realised I'd cocked up

And you'll be the only one to have boozy chutney yum Maybe we'll all be doing the same next year

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just found a load of overgrown courgettes at the plot and we've got a freezer ful of courgette cake so I needed an alternative to use them up....................thanks Flo

muffins. Theys gorgeous

Made the chutters. It only made five jars, not the 10 Hugh promised me. Men

It's a bit 'ot

Have just been plum picking so am going to have another go ...

Have come to the conclusion that HFW must boil not simmer his chutney ... no way does it evaporate to desired consitency in 2 - hours !!!!

Hey Flo, how many jars did you get. I used jam jars and only got 5. Not the 10 he suggested.

Mine must be mushier than everyone else's

2nd batch now made!

Didn't use the water, plums were very juicey ...kept the heat a little higher, and made 6 jars as before

... but it's a wee bit paler than the first batch which is a shame!

1st batch of chutney now simmering away.... It smells lovely But I didn't have any mace

well what did you use instead

Nuffink But I put 3 tspsfull of chilli flakes

So did I but it was a bit 'ot Dom Mine is in the pantry maturing for a bit, hopefully the heat might diminished somewhat by the time the chutters is ready to eat

I now need the runner bean chutney recipe Is it the Delia's recipe Flo?


Made 7 pots of the courgette thingy chutney