Help my chutney is too sweet

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snowball
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Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Oct 10, 18 10:35 am Post subject: Help my chutney is too sweet
I have made an apple and green tomato chutney. It is too sweet. It doesn't need more vinegar. I have let it down with water and added more chilies. Anything else I can do?

tahir

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 18 10:48 am Post subject:
Add something that's not sweet or acid? Beans, cauli?

buzzy

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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 18 11:36 am Post subject:
I seem to remember that when my mother made green tomato chutney (when we had a surplus, and before she became allergic to tomato plants) that that turned out very sweet. I had always imagined it was a characteristic of things made with green tomatoes. Henry

Shan

Joined: 13 Jan 2009
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Location: South Wales

Posted: Wed Oct 10, 18 1:23 pm Post subject:
Add some salt and some toasted cashews (or oher nuts - but DO toast them off in a pan first). Savoury to balance the sweet.

wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 18 11:30 am Post subject:
Make another batch that’s deliberately under sweetened and mix them together?

gz

Joined: 23 Jan 2009
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Location: Ayrshire, Scotland

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 18 1:21 pm Post subject:
brilliant suggestion!

buzzy

Joined: 04 Jan 2011
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Location: In a small wood on the edge of the Huntingdonshire Wolds

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 18 1:35 pm Post subject:
Relabel it as designer jam. Henry

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