Cucumber Chutney

Ingredients

• three heaped up table-spoonfuls
• a tea-spoonful of finely-minced onion
• one of chopped green chilli
• one of parsley
• a dessert-spoonful of vinegar
• a dessert-spoonful of salad oil
• a pinch of sugar

Method

1. 1

   Cut cucumber into strips, mix with onion, green chilli, and parsley.

2. 2

   Moisten with vinegar and salad oil, and season with salt and black pepper.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from Culinary jottings (1885) by A. R. Kenney-Herbert, page 174. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

three heaped up table-spoonfuls ; mix with them a tea-spoonful of finely-minced onion, one of chopped gTeen chilli, and one of parsley ; moisten with a dessert-spoonful of vinegar in which a pinch of sugar has been dissolved, a dessert-spoonful of salad oil, and dust over it salt and black pepper at discretion. Brinjal cJiiitney is made in this manner : — Boil two or three brinjals, let them get cold, scrape out the whole of the inside of the pods, pass this through the sieve to get rid of the seeds. Rub a soup-plate with a clove of garlic, empty the brinjal pulp therein, dress it with a tea- spoon- ful of minced onion, one of green chilli, one of vinegar, 306 CULINARY JOTTINGS FOR MADRAS. and a very little green ginger, season with salt and black pepper, pat the mixtni'e into a little mould, and serve in a saucer. Cocoanut chutyiey consists of pounded cocoanut, flavoured with minced onion and green chilli, green ginger, and an atom of garlic, moistened with tamarind juice, and season- ed with red pepper and salt. Mint chutney is made in the same way, substituting pounded mint for cocoanut. Scald the mint leaves before pounding them. Mango or apple chutney is made like cucumber chutney with the addition of a tea-spoonful of chopped green ginger. Tamarind chutney is a good one : — Pound together a table-spoonful of tamarind pulp and one of green ginger, season it with salt, a tea-spoonful of minced green chillies, and one of mustard seed roasted in butter ; mix thorough- ly and serve. Mashed potato chutney is flavoured witli minced onion, green chilli, salt, pepper, vinegar, and a pinch of sugar

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