Tasty Homemade Pear Chutney
Tasty Homemade Pear Chutney Recipe. An easy basic recipe idea for the best canned or bottled fresh apple and pear chutney to store.
- Prep Time: 20 min
- Cook Time: 30 min
- Total Time: 50 min
- Yield: 1 kg 1x
- Category: Chutney, Canning, Bottling
- Method: no bake stove top
Ingredients
Scale
- 5 Cups of chopped fresh fruit. (pears )(a few apples included is good)
- 1 cup of raisins (dried fruit option)
- 1 cup of chopped onions (yellow or red)
- 1 cup of vinegar (malt vinegar is a favorite, but any will do)
- 1 cup of sugar (used brown or coconut sugar)
- 1 Citrus fruit (the zest and the juice) I used a lemon (or orange)
- Mixed herbs and spices to taste.(clove, nutmeg and all spice mix)
Instructions
- Peel, chop and core the fruit, pears or an apple or two.
- Grate the onion finely.
- Grate and zest the lemon and then squeeze the juice out.
- In a large pot place all the ingredients. bring to boil.
- Once the mixture starts to bubble consistently, reduce the heat to medium and stir now and again.
- simmer for 25 – 30 minutes until fruits are tender and the mixture has thickened.
- Test this process with a spatula, to see that when you pull the spatula through no liquid fills the channel it leaves behind at the bottom of the pot.
- Then the mixture is done.
- Place in hot jars while warm. Seal.
- Place in the fridge when cool.
- This recipe will keep for about a month.
- Proper canning jars can keep on the shelf for at least 1 year. (can them if required)
Notes
This recipe only makes 2 x 500 g jars. I would double the recipe if more is required. Although this will be for our daily use, then this amount will be good.
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