Ambarella (June Plums) Chutney Recipe

June Plums also called as Ambarella is a very common fruit in Sri Lanka. The fruit can be eaten either raw or cooked. Out of so many ambarella recipes ambarella chutney is a very tasty recipe that we can keep for many weeks and eat.

Ingredients:

Ambarella (June Plums) – 800g

Sugar – 400g

Chopped Ginger – 1 ½”

Chopped Garlic Cloves – 03-04

Ground Cinnamon, Cloves & Cardamom – 1 ½ tsp

Vinegar – 02 tbsp

Roasted Chili Powder – 4 tsp

Chili Powder – 3 tsp

Salt – as per the taste

Method:

Peel off ambarella, wash and cut them into pieces and remove the seed.
Keep a clay pot on the stove & add sugar into it. Add water to the level until all sugar is covered and heat.
When sugar heats well add chopped ginger, chopped garlic, cinnamon, cloves, and cardamom.
Then add vinegar. If you don’t like the taste of vinegar you can avoid using it.
Add ambarella pieces into the sugar mixture, mix thoroughly and keep it closed until they boil. As ambarella boils it changes colour.
Then add roasted chili powder, chili powder, and salt. Give it a good mix, cover and cook under medium heat.
It needs to cook this while stirring time to time until mixture gets thicker.
Meanwhile, we can sterilize the bottles that we need to put the chutney.
When the chutney is ready get the pot out of the stove and let it cool down a bot. It doesn’t need to wait until it cools down completely.
After that put the chutney into prepared bottles.