Fig and Apple Chutney

It's been a very busy summer and the last few weeks have been mainly taken up with painting the outside of the house, but on one of my many trips between the house and the garage this week I noticed that we had about six ripe figs. The last of the figs have coincided with the start of the Bramley apples so I took a couple of hours out from the decorating to make some fig and apple chutney!

Makes one small Kilner jar:

Ingredients

1/2 cup brown sugar

1/2 cup apple cider vinegar

2 cups of figs (about 6)

1/3 cup of apples

1/2 cup white onion

1/3 cup raisins

1/3 tsp salt

1/2 tsp ground ginger

1/4 tsp ground clove

1/4 tsp ground nutmeg

Splash of apple juice

1. Soak raisins in hot water for about 10 minutes

2. In a saucepan dissolve the sugar in the vinegar then add the chopped figs, apple, onion, raisins, salt and spices.

3. Bring everything to the boil, then reduce heat and simmer for about an hour stirring frequently. If the mixture starts to look dry add a splash of apple juice to loosen the mixture and stop it sticking.

4. Sterilise a jar by heating the oven to 140 degrees C. Wash the jar in hot soapy water and rinse well, put the wet jar on a baking sheet and heat in the oven until completely dry (about 10 minutes). Remove jar from oven and allow to cool slightly before filling with the hot chutney.

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