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Mangoe Chutney

A preserved mango chutney made with tamarind, salt, raisins, sugar, ginger, chillies, garlic, and vinegar.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 8 ingredients
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Why it works: Tamarind and ginger work together. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 325 recipes. Both carry alpha-pinene, which smells pine, turpentine. The science ↓

Mangoe Chutney

Ingredients

Directions

Salt the tamarind

  1. Mix the salt with the tamarind in a bowl.

  2. Put the mixture in pots and cover tightly.

Prepare the chutney

  1. Finely chop the mangoes, kishmis, green ginger, and garlic.

  2. Pound or grind the dried chillies with vinegar and mix with the chopped ingredients.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Tamarind + gingertop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together325 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  2. Ginger + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together6,402 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Tamarind + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together395 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  4. Tamarind + raisintop 8% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together36 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, creamy).

  5. Raisin + gingertop 11% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together1,242 recipes

    Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Red tamarind
Gives a sour, fruity tang that balances the sweetness.
Kishmis (raisins)
Adds chewy texture and natural sweetness.
Sugar
Adds sweetness and helps preserve the chutney.
Green ginger
Adds sharp, aromatic warmth to the chutney.
Dried chillies
Add heat and pungency.
Vinegar
Adds acidity that sharpens flavour and helps preserve.

Swap the raisin

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (tamarind, sugar, ginger, garlic, vinegar):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Mangofits better
  3. Lemonfits better
  4. Raisinthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against tamarind, sugar, ginger, garlic, vinegar. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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