Spiced Tomato Chutney

From For the Love of Food, Denis Cotter, Collins, 2011.

To go with Lucy’s sausages, the author supplied a recipe for this tomato chutney. It was the simplest of recipes to follow: just put all the ingredients in a saucepan, bring to the boil and simmer for an hour or more until the mixture is thick. Take out the cinnamon stick, cool and bottle. What could be easier?

The ingredients: an onion chopped, chopped garlic cloves, 1 red capsicum chopped, a chopped red chilli, 500 g of chopped tomatoes, 225 ml of white vinegar, 175 g of soft brown sugar, 50 g of raisins, 1 teaspoon of black mustard seeds, 1 teaspoon of smoked paprika, 1 cinnamon stick.

This went wonderfully with the sausages—and, consequently, with several other meals, including on biscuits with cheese.

Taste: ✔✔✔✔✔

Ease of cooking: ✔✔✔✔✔