Practical cooking tips How to make tomato chutney

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Few things make you feel more snug, and indeed, smug than a jar of homemade chutney. Roll up your chunky knit and get stewing.

To make tomato chutney you'll need 1kg ripe tomatoes, chopped, 450g onions, chopped, 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped, 2 eating apples, peeled, cored and roughly chopped, 2 tsp mustard seeds, 2 cloves, 2.5cm piece fresh ginger, grated, 300g sultanas, 200g light muscovado sugar and 600ml malt vinegar.

Don't feel you have to stick rigidly to the ingredients though; spices can be switched, as can the type of vinegar. Just keep to the given weights and method.

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