Sunday, May 30, 2010

Chutney 101, and a Tart

Last week on Heaven Housewife’s blog I fell in love with a chicken salad recipe that I had to make. Do recipes ever get stuck in your brain and you can’t move forward with regular life chores until you “make the food”? This should have been a simple recipe to make, except that I couldn’t find what I’ll term as the most important ingredient- CHUTNEY. After visiting three local stores, I determined to substitute a crazy homegrown concoction by mixing peach jam with vinegar (sounds strange, but it actually worked surprisingly well). The following day I made some wonderful homemade chutney so that I wouldn’t be found in this mess again.

HH emailed me a few pointers about chutney that I would love to pass along to my readers.First of all, in her part of the world (United Kingdom) no store would be complete without 5 to 10 brands of chutney (imagine that!). Her favorite brand is Waitrose, for those of us in America, Major Grey’s is the gold standard. The most common use for this fabulous sauce is a great sandwich made from cheddar cheese, chutney with lettuce and tomato. As if this wasn’t enough help, HH sent me to a sight with this fabulous tart. Of course I made it and tweaked it because I can’t ever leave a recipe alone. It is completely delicious, as is the strawberry and blackberry chutney that I made. I made the tart with the basic dough from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes A Day and it worked like a charm.


Chutney is a wonderful addition to anyone’s pantry and I recommend that before this season is over you preserve one of your favorite fruits into your very own chutney. Your friends and family will thank you all year long.



Thank you Heavenly Housewife for the help in understanding chutney a little better, you are the best!

P.S. Becky from Vintage Mixer has also made the chicken salad and has it it up on her blog in a little differnt version, you can never go wrong with anything she makes, check it out for a different twist.

14 comments:

  1. Thank you so much daaaahling, you are most welcome :). the tart you made looks absolutely delish!! I totally understand about food obsessions. Right now mine are to recreate a particular banana bread I had at a cafe in London. I even had a dream about it lol, how crazy is that???
    *kisses* HH

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  2. I love a good chutney! This tart sounds fantastic. And I bet the chutney would also be great on a nice pork chop! Oh the possibilities...

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  3. I've made peach chutney and pear chutney, but never berry chutney. I am excited to try this recipe. The tart looks so fabulous.

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  4. Yum!! I bet this was a big hit over the holiday weekend!

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  5. Also, I loved the Chicken Salad Recipe. Adding curry is my favorite way to make chicken salad. I also add grapes, apples, and coconut. Here is my slightly different version http://vintagemixer.blogspot.com/2009/07/coconut-curry-chicken-salad.html

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  6. I love Heaven Housewife her posts are so fun. Healthy and delicious, you don't get much better than that.

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  7. Oh Cristie, I too get recipes stuck in my head that I want to make. Drats! Now you've given me two new chicken salad recipes and a tart to try. (Good thing I'm taking Chemistry this semester so am well versed in converting HH's metric to silly US measurements.)

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  8. OhMyGosh does this ever look delicious! I will be sad when berry season is gone!

    Donna

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  9. Yes, I totally do that...get something in my head and drive myself nuts 'til I make it! This looks delicious...the basic dough made that gorgeous thing!? NICE. And I don't think I use chutney nearly enough.

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  10. this is a very creative recipe. i never eat chutney. i always enjoy it when i do though.

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  11. Yum...I will need to start eating chutney again...thanks for this one today. xoxoo

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  12. I think it's safe to say that I've never had chutney. The chutney and tart sound like an interesting mix of sweet and savory. I'd love to try it!

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  13. I need to eat more chutney. Thank you for sharing. I need to visit Heavenly Housewife's blog as well!

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  14. Chutney is a mainstay in our house and we always have several kinds on hand (must be the British influence in Canada). This tart sound like a fantastic pairing for the chutney.

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