Easy Bottled Sweet Apple Chutney
Easy Bottled Sweet Apple chutney Recipe. Homemade bottled or canned apple chutney When life gives you apples in apple season.
- Prep Time: 1 1/2 hrs
- Cook Time: 4 hrs
- Total Time: 5 1/2 hrs
- Yield: 5 x 800g canning jars
- Category: condiments and sauces, chutneys
- Method: no bake stove top
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 Kg of apples (weighed before chopping and peeling)
- 500 g onions (weighed before chopping and peeling)
- 400 g of brown sugar (or demerara sugar)
- 500 ml of white wine vinegar (if no vinegar use lemon juice or apple cider vinegar)
- 2 lemons and their Zest and juice.
- 1 small chili
- 1 Tsp of ground ginger
- 1 Tsp of all spice
- 1/2 Tsp of cinnamon
- a pinch of ground cloves
- 1/2 Tsp of salt
- 8 peppercorns
- 1 Tbsp. of mustard seeds
Instructions
- Wash, peel and core apples, then chop into pieces.(as required).
- Peel, chop and mince up onions.
- Deseed and finely chop up chili.
- Place ingredients in a large cooking pot and bring to boil slowly. Stirring now and then. Until sugar is dissolved.
- Then simmer on low heat, that the bubbles are barely visible until the chutney has thickened.
- Draw a spatula across the bottom of the chutney to see if no liquid appears. Then it is done.
- Fill clean sterilized jars while warm, with plastic under lid. seal.
- Leave to mature for a month, longer is better.