Nothing ready in the garden yet for chutney making so I bought some red onions and a bottle of red wine vinegar from Aldi for a batch of red onion 'marmalade' chutney. The 3 large red onions didn't weigh much so I added some ordinary onions too - just under 2lb total. That's about as many as I can peel at once without dissolving into tears.
This is an easy chutney. Once the onions are peeled and sliced - and I do the slicing in the processor attachment to my Kenwood - then it's just dissolving sugar in vinegar, adding the salted, rinsed and dried onions, some caraway seeds and cooking until thickened but not until all the liquid had gone.
3½ jars made. Only problem with making this is it somehow tends to leave bits of onion all over the kitchen!
Cucumber Sweet and Sour Pickles next..............there are 4 cucumbers in the greenhouse that will be ready all at once very soon.
I definitely bought the wrong compost this year as NOTHING I started off in it grew. My Cucumber plants are still tiny stunted seedlings, yet one is desperately trying and has put out a miniscule flower. This despite transplanting them to a better growing medium. My Verbascum seeds germinated and grew two miniscule leaves and have not grown since so will have to be composted. Veg outside not faring much better and everything is crying out for warmth.
ReplyDeleteI agree! I'm in Devon and everything is about 4 - 6 weeks behind.
DeleteI know we have to get used to compost without peat but it really isn't so good.
DeleteMy sweetcorn are looking sad due to lack of sun and plants in the greenhouse are just very leggy for the same reason
P.S. My chutney making days are over because the vinegar fumes really affect my asthma. I really resent paying for a jar now! Someone at the little Farmer's Market down the town was charging £3.75 for a tiny jar of Chutney . . . about 4 oz!
ReplyDeleteHave you tried wearing a mask to stop fumes x
DeleteLeaving onions in the fridge and when chopping up, cut the root end last, where all the volatile crying compounds are found. Eyes should not water so much, if at all.
ReplyDeleteMine do - whatever way I peel them and I've tried them all
DeleteI was chopping onions last night and my eyes streamed. I haven't been affected like that for years. My tomato plants are quite poor and the courgette has leaves and that's it. They'd better buck up soon.
ReplyDeleteI've tried everything over the years - I used to make chutneys to sell and it was awful
DeleteLove the name "Chutney Cupboard" :)
ReplyDeleteHomemade relishes are THE best and your onion marmalade sounds easy as well as delicious.
There's jam and marmalade in the cupboard too so I should have said my 'preserves' cupboard!
DeleteLooks yum! Gen
ReplyDeleteIt's good with a burger in a bun
DeleteThat looks good! Could you share the recipe please?
ReplyDeleteIt's a favourite. The recipe is on the separate recipe page. Scroll down quite a long way
DeleteThank you! Can't wait to try!
DeleteYour chutney looks very fine. I peeled a large red onion last night and did not tear up at all. The white/yellow onions seem much stronger and bring tears even when I eat a piece of bread which is supposed to curb tearing.
ReplyDeleteI love onions! But, I've never had onion chutney before. I must try it.
ReplyDeleteI am just across the Suffolk border in north Essex and things here are way behind. Not only that but the slugs and snails are off the scale. I grow dahlias in large pots on the patio and many have been chomped down to the earth!
ReplyDeleteMy favourite especially with cheese.. perhaps I might make some if I can face the stinging eyes!
ReplyDeleteThat looks very tasty
ReplyDeleteAlison in Wales x
I make redcurrant and red onion chutney but wear swimming goggles whilst chopping up the onions!
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