How to make Spiced Plum chutney | Home made sauce ideas
Plum chutney recipe with step by step pictures and video on how to make spiced plum chutney or sauce at home without adding any preservatives.
Plums are one of the widely available fruits. We can make variety of dishes like cake, jam, sauce, salads and even more.
I have first tasted the plums sweet and spiced condiment from one of my pakistani punjabi friend. Since then I love this variation from plums. The one I tasted was more sweeter side.
Now, I bring you here a super spiced plum chutney recipe with these plums. I tried it with spices to make this plum chutney little spicy and sweet. You can call it as either spiced plum sauce or plum chutney.
I hope you will also like this. Do give it a try and let me know how it was with you.
I would request you to check some of my other chutney recipes also. All of them are very healthy options such as ginger chutney, curry leaves chutney, ridge gourd peel chutney and tomato chutney.
Health Benefits of Plums
Do you know these plum fruits are having lot of health benefits too.
- Plums are rich source of various nutrients, minerals antioxidants and fibers.
- As these sweet plums are rich in fiber, it will help relieve the constipation.
- Healthline indicates that the plums may help lower the blood sugar levels as their potential to increase levels of adiponectin, a hormone that plays a role in blood sugar regulation. It also says that the plums may benefit for the heart health.
However, as it is fruit with high calories, it is always good to eat limited portions at a time.
Plum Chutney
Ingredients
- 10 Plum fruits
- 2 ½ tbsp Oil
- 1 tsp Mustard
- Few Curry leaves
- 1 Lemon
- ¼ cup Jaggery You can use sugar too
- 2 tbsp Sugar Optional, You can use jaggery fully if you prefer
- 1 tsp Salt as required
Spices
- 1 tsp Cumin / Seeragam
- 1 tsp Fennel seeds / Perunjeeragam
- ½ tsp Karunjeeragam / black cumin/ nigella-
- 1/2 tsp Whole pepper / Milagu
- ½ tsp Fenugreek seeds / methi / Vendhayam
- 2 Red chilli
- 1 Kashmiri red chilli
- 1 inch Ginger
Instructions
- Add oil in the preheated kadai. Add mustard seeds and let it crackle.
- Add curry leaves and then add all ingredients given under spices and saute for 30 seconds.
- Add chopped plum fruit pieces and required salt.Saute until the plums are mashed.
- Now add jaggery, sugar and lemon juice and cook until jaggery dissolves.
- Let it cool for 5 to 10 minutes.Transfer to mixer jar and grind coarsely based on the consistency you might prefer.
- Store in airtight container. Serve it with any type of tiffin or snack.
Video
Step-by-Step Pictures of making Plums Chutney
- Add oil in the preheated kadai. Add mustard seeds and let it crackle.
- Add curry leaves and then add all ingredients given under spices and saute for 30 seconds.
- Add chopped plum fruit pieces and required salt.
- Saute until the plums are mashed.
- Now add jaggery
- Add sugar
- Add lemon juice.
- Let it cool for 5 to 10 minutes.
- Transfer to mixer jar.
- Grind coarsely based on the consistency you might prefer.
- Transfer and store it in glass container.
- Serve it with any type of tiffin or snack which needs condiments.
Notes:
There is no need to add water as we use fresh plums.
It has sweet, sour and spice taste. So its a great side dish for idli, dosa, chapathi, samosas or any savory tiffin which needs side dish.
You can always adjust the spice, sour and sweet as per your taste.
