Blackberry and Figs Chutney / Compote
By: Sonal Gupta
Published: Saturday, October 26, 2013 - 1:23pm

Ingredients




Blackberry : 2 cups (fresh or 2/3 cup dried)
Dry Figs : 6 soaked in 1/2 cup of water for 3-4 hours
Dry whole chili : 1/2 soaked with figs
Black pepper powder : 1/3 tsp
Red chili powder : 1/3 tsp
Salt : 1/2 tsp or to taste
Cumin powder : 1/2 tsp
Brown sugar : 1/2 cup
Honey : 1 tbsp
Vinegar: 1 tsp
Lemon rind : 1/2 lemon large
Lemon juice : 1-2 tbsp

Preparation

1 Grind blackberries, figs and red chili in a coarse paste in the grinder with the water in which figs and chili were soaked. 2 Pour the paste out in a pan. 3 Put the pan on medium heat. Add all the above ingredients to the paste. 4 Let the ingredients simmer together for 4-5 minutes. 5 Your sweet and spicy blackberry and fig chutney/compote is ready  . 6 Enjoy on top of the toast or crackers. Serve as a side/dip for pretzels, celery sticks, breadsticks. For more fun, top a bit over your vanilla ice cream  . Enjoy it with chopped nuts as well! 7 Note : it can be stored in an air tight jar in the fridge for upto 10-12 days. 8 Yield : approximately 1 cup 9 Serve size : 1 tbsp

About

I had the blackberry overload in my fridge. Also while putting the pantry together in the new house, came across some “dried” figs. I haven’t cooked anything fun since sometime because of the move. So I thought why not create some magic with these two together…..and voila ….the blackberry and fig together took a chutney/compote avatar  ).
I had to soak the figs since the dried ones were over dried  . I love my spice so soaked half a dried red chili with it  … The easiest thing that I have ever put together in no time. My 2&1/2 year loved it and wanted to eat more but I had to stop her. It looked beautiful. Get cooking with me now  .