Sunday, 18 August 2013

What to do with all the courgettes?

This is a fantastic recipe for getting rid of some of the courgette glut - I've made it using my courgettes at home and intend to repeat it with our students in a couple of weeks time.

Courgette Chutney - recipe adapted slightly from River Cottage - "Pam the Jam"
http://www.rivercottage.net/

1kg Courgettes
2 tbsp salt
Dice the courgettes into about 1cm pieces, salt, cover and leave for a few hours.  Drain, rinse and repeat - leave in a colander to dry a bit.

2 med onions, peeled
25g chunk of root ginger, peeled
4 - 5 garlic cloves, peeled
1 chili red or green - mild or hot - whatever you have - seeds in/out?
Put the 4 ingredients above in a food processor and blitz them into a finely chopped paste.

100ml oil - vegetable or sunflower
2 tbsp mustard seeds, black or white
1 tbsp coriander seeds
1 tbsp ground cumin
1 tbsp turmeric
Fry spices in oil for 3 - 4 minutes stirring all the time, then add the onion paste and fry for about 4 minutes stirring all the time.  Add courgettes, then,

300 ml vinegar - cider, white wine etc
225 Demerera sugar
I have added a couple of peeled, cored and diced windfalls from the apple tree, or a couple of green tomatoes that the kids have 'accidentally' picked.  Also a peeled and diced Kolrabi also works really well. 

Stir and simmer for about 45 minutes until chutney has reduced and is jammy is consistency.
Spoon into sterilized jars while hot, use oven gloves to tighten lids.

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