Indian Apple Chutney (2024)

This Indian Apple Chutney for home canning is a traditional dark, thick, rich chunky sweet and sour chutney.

Use as an accompaniment to curries, rice, lamb, cheese with crusty breads, etc. Mix some into fat-free sour cream or fat-free yoghurt for a quick, healthy dip, or mix some into low-fat cream cheese for a delicious spread on celery sticks or crackers of your choice.

This recipe makes a lot. You can easily just cut the recipe in half, or make the full batch in November for rich, exotic Christmas gifts the following month. Your yield will vary based on how juicy or dry the apples were.

This is one of those recipes that tastes best after being allowed a bit of time for the flavours to develop and marry in the jar after canning.

The Recipe

If you wish to adjust batch size, do the math first on paper.

Jar size choices:Quarter-litre (½ US pint / 250 ml / 8 oz) ORhalf-litre (1 US pint / 500 ml/ 16 oz)

Processing method: Either water-bath or steam canning

Yield:10 x half-litre (US pint) jars

Headspace:2 cm (½ inch)

Processing time:10 minutes either size jar

Reference information

How to water bath process.

How to steam can.

When water-bath canning or steam canning, you must adjust the processing time for your altitude.

Australia and New Zealand vinegar strength special notes.

Recipe notes

• Do not cut back on the high acid items (the apples, raisins, vinegar), and don’t increase the amount of low acid things (the onion, the pepper). The acidic balance here is for safety.
• Instead of the clove of garlic, you can use ½ teaspoon from a jar of non-oiled minced garlic, orabout 1 teaspoon garlic powder, to taste.
• Instead of 2 small hot red chiles, you could use 2 teaspoons chile flake. If you want less heat, cut back on chile flake; if you want more, you can add more chile flake.
• Instead of malt vinegar, you can use 5% apple cider vinegar (or half and half.) It will be milder.
• Instead of the salt, you can use a non-bitter, non-clouding salt sub. We have foundHerbamare Sodium-Freeperforms well in that regard.
• You can reduce the sugar, or use the same volume amount of granulated Splenda®, or use 4 teaspoons of liquid stevia. For stevia, we’d recommendBetter Stevia liquid stevia.
• It will come out quite dark from the raisins and malt vinegar, but if you want it even more mysteriously darker, add a teaspoon or two of Kitchen Bouquet.
• To avoid scorching, a heat diffuser can be of help.
• If you have sumac powder, a souring spice, to hand, you may wish to add up to 2 teaspoons to give the chutney a bit more of a sour balance.

Recipe source

Curried Apple Chutney. In: Ball Blue Book Guide to Preserving. Daleville, Indiana: Hearthmark LLC. Edition 36. 2013. Page 51

(In the next edition, 37th edition, 2014, page 82, Ball cut the recipe in half.)

Modifications made:

• Suggested malt vinegar of same or higher acidity in for extra robustness of taste, but white or cider vinegar (5% or higher) is fine.

Nutrition information

Regular version

Per 2 tablespoons / 30 ml

• 43calories, 34mg sodium

Sugar and salt-free version

Per 2 tablespoons / 30 ml

• 25 calories, 1 mg sodium
• Weight Watchers PointsPlus®: 1 to 4 tablespoons: 1 point; 5 to 7 tablespoons: 2 points.

* Nutrition info provided by https://caloriecount.about.com

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