Discovering Chutney

Growing up with my family they avoided a lot of Asian and Indian foods. I only had Chinese food once in a blue moon when Dad wasn't in the house and Mom wanted Shrimp Chow Mien with crunchy noodles. Indian food I hadn't heard of until I came to the UK and tried a Red Curry, thinking red meant the type of veggies used. Thankfully Mark had gotten a Green Curry which helped (I mixed them together).

We started going to Curry Restaurants in Leeds our favorite is Nawabb right near where I work. And they always ask if we would like poppadoms and they came with a plate of about 6 types of chutney. Of course I always had to try them all, some are creamy others spicy. My favorite is Mango Chutney as it's sweet.



Yesterday I decided that I was going to make a curry for dinner and thought a poppadom/chutney plate would be an perfect addition. However we have never owned chutney and I'm sure my Branston Pickle idea as a substitute wouldn't have gone down well. Off to Morrisons (a grocery store near Mark's work) and I purchased three types of chutney and some poppadoms.



I decided to go with the Morrison's brand and got Tomato, Onion and Fruit. The tomato one is a bit bland, it's not bad but it's not amazing either. The onion one is sweeter than I expected and looked to have mustard seeds in it. The Fruit one said it contained apple, mango & raisins, it was pretty darn good. I could probably eat the whole jar given half a chance.

However all three jars said you could put these on sandwiches.... Which seems a bit strange. I will however attempt to have some with wraps over the weekend.

BTW from my limited experience home made tomato chutney is way better than store bought. I really should have asked Jen & Jack for a jar when I was in Nottingham last. Oh well, live and learn!