A Nice Pear!

My next chutney adventure was inspired by a seasonal fruit and vegetable list I found on Jamie Oliver's website. apparently pears are in season currently and just coming out of season in the UK so now would be an opportune time to test a pear chutney. I l.ove pears and thought a sweet chutney would be good to add into the mix of the fiery tomato chutney and the pickled onions that i have already made. (Incidentally the onions were taste tested for the first time this week and blimey they are HOT!!! Good, but hot!!)

Again I picked a recipe with simple ingredients as I'm making a batch at a time and am trying to keep things just on the nice side of difficult for me! Nothing too easy, there would be no point. The recipe was made up of:

Pears

cooking apples

onions

seedless raisins

cayenne pepper

all spice

garlic

salt

nutmeg

soft brown sugar

and white distilled vinegar.

Not too difficult to source!!! Everything pretty much just gets chopped up and thrown in a pan to boil. This time I re-boiled the mixture to condense it even further, the consistency is lovely now and I'm hoping it also concentrates the flavour. I'm sure it will! I've found there's not anything too complex to the chutney production itself! I'm just trying to ensure the recipes are right.

I was really hoping the chutney would go a lovely golden colour but instead it's a deep brown which I'm guessing is the raisins at work. If anyone out there has a recipe for a lovely golden chutney (it doesn't have to be pear) I'd really appreciate a hint at it!!

On that note I'd also like to add that if anyone wants one of my recipes with quantities, please just drop me a line or leave a comment. I'll more than happily provide!!!

In conclusion though I've got 16 jars from this batch so I'm happy with the quantity...I'll just have to wait a few weeks to taste it properly by which time it should have 'matured.'