Fiery hot sweet and sour gooseberry chutney / relish
The summer returns and with it the barbecue season. For this I have a very sweet and sour hot fruity relish that goes well with grilled meats, turkey, chicken, chicken and cheese.
Ingredients list (more or less at your discretion):
- Approximately 1 kg gooseberries (cleaned and washed)
- 1 finger-long peeled and sliced piece of ginger
- 2 chili peppers (green and red)
- 3-4 medium onions
- 3 cloves of garlic
- Oil for the pan (garlic / lime oil - all sorts go)
- 300 g of sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 2 - 3 tsp turmeric
- 1 teaspoon cloves
- 2 - 3 star anise (rest of Christmas)
- 1 tsp of mustard seeds (can be browned and crushed)
- 250 - 300 ml apple cider vinegar (wine vinegar goes too)
Who has fresh herbs:
- 1 sprig of rosemary
- some stems of thyme, marjoram
- possibly overripe fruit
- possibly corn starch (Mondamin etc.) for thickening
Preparation:
- In the heated oil, onions, garlic, chilli, mustard seeds and ginger are sautéed glassy, then quenched with the vinegar and the sugar dissolved with stirring in it.
- Then add the remaining spices, herbs and gooseberries and simmer for about 30 - 45 minutes. Always taste it until it is consistent.
- I also seasoned with coarse colored pepper, so it was pretty fiery. The chili peppers alone did not bring it.
- In the fridge I still had an overripe banana and 2 kiwis that came with cut into the pot. Towards the end of the cooking time, I have some berries crushed, not all, just so that it gets a little creamier. Because it seemed too thin, I thickened it a bit with maize flour.
- Immediately fill the liquid in boiling hot-rinsed glasses to the rim, tighten tightly and let stand upside down for about 10 minutes (works with a pot glove / dishcloth.) Careful: hot!)
The chutney is delicious with grilled meats, turkey, chicken or cheese dipped in the chutney.
Since I do not like it, if one sees from the inscription on the cover, which was contained before, I cut myself from DC fix round stickers (often in the evening in front of the TV). To do this, place the lid or the glass upside down on the left side of the self-adhesive foil, draw and cut with scissors. Possibly. Unevenness can be easily compensated later with a craft knife.
Of course, it also looks nice if you give the glasses an individual fabric lid, with a bow around it a very nice gift idea.
I do not like it that way for me, as I would like to wipe the glass and the lid after each use and would not raise the fabric cap again. As a gift you can do it, but still glue the lid with foil.
Sometimes - especially with jam - the lid is also printed on the sides. For this I use adhesive tape, which comes in many colors and patterns usually packaged in 5 rolls in euro stores.
Stickers are difficult to remove when the glass is empty and should continue to be used. I simply print on plain paper (can also be colored) and stick it with a strip of Tesa on the glass. So it is easy to remove without much effort.
