Suddenly, Chutney.

I'm round at Sarah's today, and as almost always happens, we made some food.  Sarah's not in the best of health at the moment, so while her Jon's at work (he works nearly 7 days a week to support them both) she appreciates the distraction and company. For some reason I was blethering on about picalalli and how my grandad used to make it and the next thing you new we were making chutney of our own. Is piccalilli a chutney? It's not exactly clear, except to say that every recipe I could find online demands cauliflower, something Sarah didn't have any of in the house. So, chutney it was. 

The ingredients we settled on were:

Potatoes
Onions
Peas
Sweetcorn
Carrots
Fennel
Fenugreek
Mustard seeds
Turmeric
Cumin seeds
Apple cider vinegar (200ml)
Sugar (200g)

The potatoes, onions, carrots we diced.  The spices we toasted in the bottom of a saucepan before adding all the veg (except the peas and sweetcorn, which came from frozen) with the vineger and sugar, stirring until it came to the boil, and then letting simmer for a couple of hours. Sarah has an implausibly large collection of spices, which is great. We added the sweetcorn and peas towards the end, stirred some more as the whole mixture thickened and poured into jars  And that was that. Chutney bonkers. 

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