cranberry chutney/ cranberry relish - whats the diff?

[beacooker]

I have really been wanting to try the recipe from a few months back for the Roasted Chicken and Cranberry sandwiches (thats probably not the right name), but I couldn't find cranberry chutney anywhere. I finally found some cranberry relish, and bought that. How will it be different from chutney? Also, any ideas on what to do with the remaining relish?

[Sara Emily]

I MAKE a totally AWESOME cranberry chutney, and would be pleased to share the recipe if anyone is interested. As I understand it, the chutney is always a "cooked" concoction, less sweet and much more complex in flavors than a relish. Cranberry relish is usually a raw mixture featuring that fruit along with some orange (fruit and/or peel) and other assorted ingredients like perhaps celery, nuts, etc. The only cranberry CHUTNEY that I've seen in regular supermarkets, and that only occasionally, is Major Grey's, alongside their much more traditional mango chutney.

[KValley]

Sara Emily,

You must post your cranberry chutney recipe! I love cranberries, I love chutney- I anxiously await!

TIA,

Julie

[Sara Emily]

Julie,

Glad to oblige! :D I'm ready to type, but think I will post this recipe as its own thread so that more people will take a peek. You will LOVE it!

[luv2cook]

Beacooker, I bought some chutney at Central Market today in hopes of making that very sandwhich!

[ewatkins]

I thought that 'chutney" meant a very hot and spicy sweet condiment, like the mango chutney in Indian food. I made a peach chutney from Bon Appetit years ago that was fabulous with curry. I bought some peach chutney at a gift shop and was very disappointed to find it was just sort of chunky peach jam. So --what is chutney after all?

[beacooker]

OK, luv2cook, you are really rubbing salt in my wound - as I have been looking all over Orlando for cranberry chutney, I keep thinking 'If I was only still in San Antonio, I know I could find this at Central Market' !! :)


I made the sandwiches with the relish this weekend. They're OK, but WOW are they sweet!! If I were to make them again, I'd hold out for the chutney. Now I have to figure out what to do with the rest of this relish...

I'd love to hear how the sandwich turned out when made the 'right' way.

[Sara Emily]

pattiarl, it will keep about 3 weeks, refrigerated, if you choose not to can it, but it's so yummy that I doubt it will hang around that long!

Although it's a great "side" to any meat dish, I frequently eat it with vegetable plates that are meatless or, as Emily, the "condiment queen" might suggest - right out of the jar! :D