Chutney - Gluten-free and Delicious - Friday, 28th August 2015 - Perfect for Perking up Dull meals

Mixed vegetable chutney with courgettes

Rich plum and marrow chutney

Really spicy marrow and plum chutney

It's being a  busy time in the kitchen.  The Dear SO came home last weekend with six huge marrows and I had also bought home one marrow, but a normal sized marrow.  A perfect size for gently steaming or stuffing with a delicious meaty mix or even baking.

my normal marrow can be easily identified!

And  we were also given a box of plums which were in urgent need  of being dealt with, either by being eaten or cooked.






So there we on Sunday evening desperately buying malt vinegar, and preserving sugar also more onions then hurrying home to start preparing the fruit.  It was picked over and washed, some stoned by hand but others gently simmered until soft and happy to release their stone.




We've used a good variety of other ingredients like three types of vinegar - malt, cider and red wine ; two types of sugar  -preserving and soft brown, plus a good amount of  flavouring items; root ginger, spices, chilli and Scotch Bonnet peppers.

And we've just printed off labels too so our jars look rather smart....

These chutneys will be stored for two years and, in the meantime, we have my Welsh apple and elderberry chutney to keep us going for quick snacks, sandwiches  and delicious with cheese and biscuits.

Thanks to kind friends we have more than enough jars for the other chutneys to be made plus, hopefully, jars for the marmalade to be made in January when the Seville oranges are on sale.  The beauty of these is that we can store them in the freezer, making it possible for the marmalade to be made at our leisure rather than in a great panic at the beginning of the year!!!

And here's our third chutney, labelled and ready for storing...

Well, that's all for now friends...

Daisy xxx