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Chutney Sauce

A sauce made with chutney, onion, thick gravy, and butter, simmered until thickened.

From an old cookbook · modernised transcription
From a historical cookbook (Internet Archive) · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Onion and butter are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 15% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 42,912 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓

Chutney Sauce

Ingredients

Directions

  1. Melt the butter over medium heat.

  2. Add the finely chopped onion and fry until soft.

  3. Stir in the chutney and thick gravy.

  4. Bring to a boil and cook for five minutes.

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. Onion + buttertop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together42,912 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

Butter
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavour through the sauce.
Onion
Softens as it fries, adding sweetness and savoury depth to the base.
Chutney
Contributes sweetness and acidity, shaping the sauce's tangy flavour.
Thick gravy
Supplies liquid and body, thickening the sauce as it simmers.

The step that matters

Bring to a boil and cook for five minutes. Boiling thickens the sauce and reduces its liquid, while a gentle simmer for the full five minutes lets the chutney and onion flavours blend. Stirring prevents sticking on the base of the pan.

“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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