Cranberry Chutney

[fran]

Hi Happy New Year to all!
Does anyone have a cranberry chutney recipe that is quick and easy and can be kept in sterilised jars please?

Thank you

[indy]

I don't off the top of my head but will look through my chutney books in a bit, I have a fair few if I find one i'll post it

[Helsbells]

I would like to know one too, got a bag of cranberrys in the fridge from crimbo, might have to add some other bits to bulk it out though.

[JillStephens7]

I made this for my dad for christmas and he says it's delicious. I've never eaten any chutney so am taking his word for it. It's a bit pricey, so I made about a quarter of this and used the leftover dried fruits for my normal baking.
Fresh:
2 lb onions, sliced, 2lb bramley apples peeled and chopped, 12 oz fresh cranberries, 2 pints cider vinegar, zest 2 oranges 1 oz ginger chopped, 1 tbsn coarse sea salt, 1/2 tsp mixed spice.
Dried:
2lb apricots coarsly chopped, 6 oz dates pitted & chopped, 1 lb raisins, juice of 8 oranges (1 pint)

2 lb English Sugar

Soak dried ingredients in the orange juice. Cook fresh ingredients in saucepan til onion is pale and see through and cranberries are staring to turn it all pink.
Add dried fruit and sugar.

Simmer, stirring often. As it thickens, reduce the heat, then put into sterilised jars & seal.

Oh, I left out the salt completely and used about 3/4 of the sugar as it looked a ridiculous amount. I used dark brown sugar - what is English sugar?!

xx

[franwithaplan]

Hi Fran, another Fran here,
funnily enough I bought a bag of cranberries before christmas intending to make something, umm, christmasy, but either lost the original recipe or just changed my mind...whatever... I never got around to using them until yesterday. And in the end I followed the idea on the back of the packet...which was... Cranberry and Apple Sauce (Ok not strictly a chutney but...)
Add 300grams fresh cranberries to a suacepan with 1 chopped and peeled bramley apple, stir in 75g sugar and simmer until fruit has softened.
I did all of the above, although I didn't use a bramlely apple, and I used soft brown sugar. I sterilised a jam jar with boiling water, I also added some water (about a cup) to the mix, not at first, but towards the end as I thought it a bit too thick....then I scooped the whole lot into the jar sealed it and sterilised it...
There was some left over which we ate with our New Years meal, and it was delicious...

[fran]

Both recipes sound great, thank you. I am going to try both (have loads of cranberries, they were going cheap in supermarket!!!). Will let you know how I go.