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    Home » Recipes » 15 Mins Recipes

    Spiced Plum Relish or Chutney Recipe

    Published: Jul 23, 2014 · Modified: Feb 24, 2019 by Radhika · This post may contain affiliate links · 6 Comments

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    Spiced Plum Relish Recipe
    Spiced Plum Relish or Chutney with step by step photos. This plum preserve gets ready in just 15 mins and totally free of preservatives.

    This spiced Plum Relish or Chutney is a blend of all tastes. Its tart, mildly spicy, sweet and a bit sour, all at the same time. You can serve it for dessert along with gourmet cheese or as an appetizer as I have shown in the pictures with salted biscuits and a cheese sheet. It works both ways.

    Plum Chutney Recipe

    You can also marinate any meat of your choice and cook it as your recipe calls for and in this case it acts as a condiment. Isn’t that really cool to have an all in one recipe?

    And it took me just 10 mins to cook up this yummy relish. If you are making this for a party, I would suggest you to make it a day ahead as this one tastes even better the next day as the flavors and spices marry well with time.

    Spiced plum relish

    I got introduced to a relish for the first time when I first attended my younger one’s best friend’s birthday party few years ago. Oh boy I was sold to the taste of it. It was an Apple relish and my friend J had beautifully arranged this dip along with cheese cubes for the all the kids with crackers, apple slices and salt biscuits for all the adults in the party and we all enjoyed it without a shade of guilt.

    Points to note while making spiced plum relish:

    1. You can also add raisins along with the dates but I did not have it on hand, so skipped it.

    2. The tamarind extract is optional. Instead of that you can add 2 teaspoon lemon juice or apple cider vinegar if you have it or you can totally skip it. But it gives a tangy taste and acts as a preservative too.

    3. I always use seeded dates in all the recipes because they are soft and pulpy and will get mashed well while cooking itself. Seedless dates tend to be rubbery, hard and chewy.

    4. If you want it to be more on the sweeter side, increase the sugar level to 1 cup.

    5. You can also cook this in microwave.

    plum relish

    I used Ooty plums here and I knew exactly how I wanted by relish to smell and taste like. I did not remove the skin of the plums as they were thin and I was sure that it would give the relish a rich ruby red color.

    The skin will get dissolved automatically while cooking. I have used sugar here as I did not want the relish to change to a darker color, but if color is not the issue, you can also use jaggery or palm sugar.

    How to make Spiced Plum Relish Recipe:

    how to make plum relish

    1. Cut both the Plums and Dates and remove the seeds. Slice the plums thinly and chop the dates finely and keep both aside separately.

    2. First step is to macerate the plums and for that, place the plums in a bowl, add sugar, mix with a spoon and let it rest for an hour.

    3. After an hour, the plums would have started to leave its juice.

    how to make plum chutney

    4. Add dry ginger powder, cinnamon powder and red chilli powder.

    how to make plum jam

    5. Add tamarind extract, chopped dates, salt and mix well.

    6. Cook for 15 mins over low flame while mashing the entire contents with the back of a spoon or wooden spatula.

    7. The relish would have to coat the back of a spoon and also it would look shiny and the consistency would be that of a jam.

    8. Remove the bowl from fire while the relish is still loose as it will thicken further upon cooling down to room temperature.

    Spiced Plum jam

    As there is a contest going on exclusively for the participants of IFBM featuring “Plums” hosted by KitchenAid, this plum relish is off to it. Keeping fingers crossed.

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    Spiced Plum Relish Recipe details below:

    Spiced Plum Relish or Chutney Recipe

    Spiced Plum Relish or Chutney. Serve it as a spread on crackers or as a dip for crudités.
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    Prep Time : 1 hr 10 mins
    Cook Time : 15 mins
    Total Time : 1 hr 25 mins
    Servings : 1 /2 cup
    Course : Condiments
    Cuisine : Continental
    Author : Radhika

    Ingredients
      

    • Plums – 8
    • Sugar – ¾ cup
    • Dates - 5 seeded
    • Ground Ginger or Dry Ginger powder – ¼ tsp
    • Cinnamon powder – ⅛ tsp
    • Red chili powder – ⅛ tsp
    • Thin Tamarind extract – ½ tbsp optional
    • Salt – 2 pinch
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    Instructions
     

    • Cut both the Plums and Dates and remove the seeds. Slice the plums thinly and chop the dates finely and keep both aside separately.
    • First step is to macerate the plums and for that, place the plums in a bowl, add sugar, mix with a spoon and let it rest for an hour.
    • After an hour, the plums would have started to leave its juice.
    • Add dry ginger powder, cinnamon powder, red chilli powder, tamarind extract, chopped dates, salt and mix well.
    • Cook for 15 mins over low flame while mashing the entire contents with the back of a spoon or wooden spatula.
    • The relish would have to coat the back of a spoon and also it would look shiny and the consistency would be that of a jam.
    • Remove the bowl from fire while the relish is still loose as it will thicken further upon cooling down to room temperature.
    • Store in a clean, dry bottle.
    • This spiced plum relish will keep well for 2 weeks when refrigerated.
    • Serve the relish as a dip with cheese, fruit slices, crackers, salt biscuits, veggie sticks, chaats or with bread.
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    Comments

    1. Suchi Sm

      July 24, 2014 at 6:29 pm

      so tempting to the bowl akka..

      Reply
    2. Ramya Venkateswaran

      July 24, 2014 at 4:10 pm

      love the clicks and yummy relish dear

      Reply
    3. Sona S

      July 24, 2014 at 10:28 am

      Plum relish looks really delicious.. Nice pics too..

      Reply
    4. Vimitha Anand

      July 24, 2014 at 6:01 am

      Looks so good. A nice party idea

      Reply
    5. Priya Ranjit

      July 23, 2014 at 8:23 pm

      Delicious plum preserve, love this tangy, sweet dip. Those clicks are so pretty and inviting Radhika 🙂

      Reply
    6. Veena Theagarajan

      July 23, 2014 at 6:09 pm

      very interesting I will try this for sure.. It is new to me

      Reply

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