Going along with Jo Anna's 'using up fruit in the fridge' theme, I needed inspiration for the giant bag of green apples sitting in my produce drawer. I took one for lunch every day last week and still had a solid 10 apples...
Lucky for me, the Barefoot Contessa's Back to Basics rerun that was playing in the background featured a green apple chutney! I made some changes to her recipe, but it was a great spring board.
6 green apples
1 cup yellow onion
2 Tbsp fresh ginger
2 oranges worth fresh squeezed juice (ish 1 cup)
1 cup light brown sugar
3/4 cider vinegar (I was generous with the vinegar)
1 tsp whole mustard seed
1/4 tsp garlic
solid dusting of cayenne pepper
Chop, squeeze, dump everything into a large saucepan and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer until most of the liquid is gone.
I added the garlic and omitted the raisins from the original recipe. I also used the cayenne powder instead of red pepper flakes. I let the pan simmer for about an hour and then brought it back up to a boil to finish off some of the liquid.
I think it came out great--it's sweet but with a definite kick from the cayenne. I love pork chops and apples together so that is the plan for this chutney...
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