Hot & Spicy Pear Chutney
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We really loved Waitrose's Hot & Spicy Mango Chutney while we lived in Scotland, so I showed the ingredients list to ChatGPT and asked it to adjust it to use pears instead of mangos, and we ended up with this delicious chutney.
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Ingredients
- 1.5 kg peeled and diced pears buy 30% more to get this
- 50 g sugar for macerating
For cooking
- 500 ml vinegar
- 700 g sugar
- 125 g honey
- 200 g onion pureed
- 50 g fresh ginger peeled and pureed
- 20 g garlic pureed
- 20 g salt
- 10 g hot paprika
- 5 g dried chilli flakes
- 5 g whole cumin seeds
- 5 g nigella seeds
- 2 g chilli powder
- 2 g cumin powder
- 2 g ground cardamom powder
- 1 g garlic powder
- 1 g dried oregano
- 1 g ground white pepper
For the last ten minutes
- 10 g garam masala
- 2 g ground cinnamon
- 1 g freshly ground black pepper
- 1 lemon zested
- 100 g raisins
Instructions
- Dice your pears and place them in a bowl. Sprinkle them with the maceration sugar, toss to coat evenly, and let them sit for an hour or two. The sugar will draw out the excess moisture, which will pool at the bottom of the bowl. Drain off this liquid before using the pear in your chutney.
- In a large heavy-bottomed pot, combine the pears with all the cooking ingredients.
- Cook the mixture over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the sugar has completely dissolved.
- Reduce the heat to low and continue to cook the chutney, stirring occasionally, for 40 minutes to 2 hours or until it has thickened to your desired consistency. The chutney should be thick but still pourable.
- Add the remaining ingredients (apart from the raisins) to the chutney during the last 10 minutes of cooking.
- Stir in the raisins just before the chutney is done cooking.
- Carefully ladle the hot chutney into sterilised jars, seal immediately and allow to cool.
Notes
You can also make the garam masala yourself. For 10 g of masala, mix 2g ground coriander, 2g ground cumin, 2g ground cinnamon, 1g ground cloves, 1g ground fennel, 1g ground bay leaf and 1g ground cardamom.