The Many Uses Of Leftover Chutney, From Breakfast To Soups And Glazes | Kitchen Aide

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Every Christmas I’m fixed chutney, and I still person 4 hardly utilized jars. What to do pinch them earlier nan adjacent batch arrive?
Christine, Oxford
This sounds for illustration a occupation for Claire Dinhut, writer of The Condiment Book, who besides goes by nan moniker Condiment Claire. She would attack this repast by meal, starting pinch breakfast. “It mightiness not look truthful obvious,” she says, “but I put Branston pickle connected my avocado toast. If you deliberation astir it, you often adhd acidity, which is usually lemon, but chutney is punchy and has that aforesaid tang, arsenic good arsenic a spot of texture.” Regardless of what jars Christine has hanging around, Dinhut would besides see nan meal bap: “Whether it’s spicy mango, peach, chilli aliases herb chutney, that would beryllium truthful delicious pinch an ovum yolk.”

Roger Pizey, executive caput of pastry astatine Fortnum & Mason, is nary alien to Christine’s chutney conundrum: “Sometimes we’ve sewage truthful overmuch near complete that I’m astatine my wit’s extremity knowing what to do pinch it.” And, often, nan champion solution is nan simplest, which is why Pizey often spoons a bully dollop of, say, fig and fennel chutney into a golden, gooey toastie. “You tin get a lot of chutney successful location pinch a fewer generous layers of Ogleshield [a raclette-style cheese], which takes nan tart, acidic flavour of chutney really well.”

Of course, chutney besides plays very good successful different sandwiches and wraps (ham, turkey, coronation chicken), aliases usage it arsenic a glaze aliases marinade for meat. “It’s already balanced,” Dinhut says, “so you don’t needfully request to adhd thing else. If you’re putting chickenhearted breasts successful nan aerial fryer, for example, smear mango chutney [peach besides useful well] each complete nan meat, which will springiness it a really bully glaze.” Cyrus Todiwala, writer of Modern Indian: Small Plates, Big Flavours, Fabulous Feasts, meanwhile, puts his mango chutney successful a blender and purees it: “That’s nan perfect glaze for brushing connected chicken, turkey aliases pork earlier roasting.”

Soup is basking correct now, truthful if you’re having a vessel of squash aliases pumpkin soup, you could do a batch worse than spreading a portion of baguette pinch soured pick and chutney and utilizing that for dunking, Dinhut says. She besides has shape for adding chutney (think pome aliases tomato) to crockery dressings alternatively of honey: “It brings that spot of texture, vinegar and sweetness, which is particularly bully successful a atom aliases barley crockery pinch roast saccharine potato, dried cranberries and goat’s cheese.”

But do retrieve to support things clean. “It burns maine up erstwhile group return a spoon and scrape it astir nan sides of nan jar,” Todiwala says. “That’s nan spot wherever fungus will commencement to grow, truthful support nan lid and edges of nan jar cleanable by wiping them pinch a barren cloth aliases immoderate room insubstantial aft use.” That way, nary jar will ever beryllium near behind: “When you do decorativeness a jar, usage up nan past fewer bits of chutney by cracking successful a mates of eggs, sealing nan jar and giving it a bully shake. Then usage nan contents to make scrambled eggs,” Dinhut says. And those will happily do you for breakfast, luncheon aliases dinner.