# Making chutney

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-chutney/796753>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 19, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-chutney/796753 "2017-09-19T19:27:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2017, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-chutney/796753/1 "2017-09-19T19:27:53Z")

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We decided to try our luck at canning some peach chutney. Found a recipe in a canning book, put it all together and put it on the stove to “Simmer until thickened.” Some four hours later, it was still watery. The recipe called for 5 cups of vinegar for 4 quarts of fruit, which is what I’m suspecting the problem was. We ended up ladling it out into a sieve to drain off the liquid and then canned the resulting product.

Does anyone else have a tried-and-true method for making chutney that doesn’t require an inordinate amount of time?

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**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-chutney/796753/2 "2017-09-20T02:17:46Z")

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Not me. I hate fruit and meat together. Why not just make a nice spicy green chimichurri?

> **[Chimichurri](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichurri)**
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> Chimichurri (Spanish: \[tʃimiˈtʃuri\]) is an uncooked Argentine sauce used both as an ingredient in cooking and as a table condiment for grilled meat. Found originally in Argentinian, Nicaraguan and Uruguayan. The sauce comes in a green (chimichurri verde) and red (chimichurri rojo) version. It is made of finely chopped parsley, minced garlic, olive oil, oregano and red wine vinegar or lemon juice. It is somewhat similar to Moroccan chermoula.
> The name may be a variant of Spanish chirriburri '...

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2017, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/making-chutney/796753/3 "2017-09-20T03:46:12Z")

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> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> Not me. I hate fruit and meat together. Why not just make a nice spicy green chimichurri?
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> [Chimichurri - Wikipedia](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimichurri)

Thank you for your completely useless input.