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[jenscats5]

I make mango salsa all the time in the summer......it's awesome also with grilled tuna or other fish & chicken also!!

It's also great with some added red pepper flakes or hot sauce added to it.....

 

[Gymgurl]

I'm going to have to make this...it sounds great!!

 

[ChefWide]

Big love to shack and jens: fruit chutneys in summer RULE!!! I spend about a months worth of vacation at my folks farm every summer and my mom always has bluberries, black and raz growing under these wicked bird nets: looks like a circus tent filled with berry bushes... anyway:

use the fruits before they are ripe! not totally green, but try using a firm, almost hard mango, or underripe blueberries for your chutneys. I also go for double maple syrup or honnies for the sweetner, just makes things a little more multi leveled.

OH!! and dont be afraid of mixing folks up a bit with some dried fruits in their too: toss a handful of dry cranberries and toasted mustard seeds into that mango chutney. You will dig it.

 

[ChefWide]

You know what is wicked cool for fresh chutneys: an ice cube tray for big ice cubes.

Cheffy on acid again? no, it really is cool: you want that groovy fresh fruit chutney in the middle of january? me too.

Make a big ol' batch in august when the fruit is perfect and cheap, then portion it off into your big cube trays, freeze it hard, pop out the cubes and wrap them up, then into labeled plastic containers (I use gallon size, but that kind of depends on your freezer space).

Then whenever you need a portion or two of fresh fruit chutney, just pull them out of the freezer ahead of time and your in.

I do that with all sorts of pestos too, as I usually have a few mountains of fresh herbs to deal with every summer that I could never use before they go sour. Make your pesto and freeze it in cubes, same deal with stocks in the winter: reduce 'em down to glace and freeze them in icecube sizes so you dont have to make stock for months and months: every time you need, reach into the freezer, pull out a cube.