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Indian Plum Chutney or Jam

Recipe: Indian Plum Chutney or Jam

Indian Plum Chutney [1]Summary: A lightly gingery, peppery plum chutney makes the most of summer’s best stone fruits. Serve with roasted meats, or eat on toast as jam.

Ingredients

  • 8-9 ounces ripe plums (250 grams; 2 large plums or 3-4 small/medium plums)
  • ½ cup water
  • ½ cup sugar
  • Pinch of kosher salt
  • 1 teaspoon finely minced fresh ginger
  • A few grinds black pepper (she uses ½ teaspoon but that would be a lot for American taste buds!)
  • ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract (optional)

Instructions

  1. Wash and cut the plums into quarters, discarding the pit. Leave the skin on. Slice plums roughly into a small, heavy saucepan. Add water and bring to a boil.
  2. Indian Plum Chutney [2]When it boils, add sugar, salt, ginger, black pepper and vanilla (if using). Let it boil for another 7-10 minutes, uncovered, and stirring occasionally. Adjust heat so it won’t boil over. The consistency will be like liquid jelly.
  3. Remove from heat and cool to room temperature.
  4. Rituparna says, “Enjoy on its own or with almost anything you want to pair it with, from spreading it over a piece of toast to mixing it with rice at the end of the meal, which is the traditional Bengali form of eating it. Mixing with cooked rice is like a tangy finish to a delicious meal. The desserts come later. You can also try having it with tortilla chips. We traditionally serve it with fried papad [3]. It is delicious that way.”

Source

Adapted from Chocolates & Dreams [4]

The plums/plumcots

These are Honey Punch Plumcots, a variety distributed by Melissa’s Produce [5], and grown by Phillips Farms in California. Honey Punch has dark red skin, gorgeous red flesh, and a wonderful flavor! I was lucky enough to get mine straight from the farmer, but if you see them in your market, don’t hesitate to get some!

Preparation time: 5 minutes
Cooking time: 15 minutes
Diet type: Vegan, Vegetarian
Diet tags: Reduced fat, Gluten free
Number of servings (yield): 6
Culinary tradition: Indian (Eastern)

Here are all the recipes I have discovered so far through Secret Recipe Club [6]. All of them are wonderful! 

Aug. 2012: Indian Plum Chutney
July 2012: Pizza Potatoes over Sauteed Spinach [7]
June 2012: Chicken Gyros [8]
May 2012: Orange-Almond Yogurt Cake [9]
April 2012: Chard Lasagna Roll-Ups [10]
March 2012: Lemon-Lime Basil Shortbread Cookies [11]
Feb. 2012: Lemony Pasta with Smoked Salmon and Dill
Dec. 2011: Sweet Potato, Black-Eyed Pea and Broccoli Bowl
Nov. 2011: Santa’s Favorite Cookie  [12]

This post is part of the monthly Secret Recipe Club [6], in which participants are secretly assigned another’s food blog to explore and cook from for a month. Today is our “reveal day,” in which we ‘fess up and share which blog we had.

Thanks, Rituparna, for such a great recipe, and so many delicious options throughout your site!

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Honey Punch Plumcots for Indian Plum Chutney [13]Readers, you can see all of the other Secret Recipe Club deliciousness right below here in the array of photos. Click any of them to be transported to that particular recipe!

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