Recipe Review: Red Onion Relish

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Recipe Name: Red Onion Relish

Book Name: Everyday Cookbook

Tweaking details:

I substituted rapadura for the brown sugar and added an extra tsp of honey to add a little extra sweetness (rapadura isn't as sweet as sugar).

I think the method of this recipe is a little strange.  It says to put all the ingredients in and cook at speed 1.5.  I really think the ingredients need to be chopped first though and then cooked on the reverse setting to get a decent consistency.

I chopped the dried apricots at speed 5 until quite fine, then added the onions and apple.  I continued chopping at speed 4 for about 20 seconds (stopping every 5 seconds to give it a good stir with the spatula).  When I was happy with the size of the pieces I added the extra ingredients and then cooked it for 40 minutes at 100 degrees, reverse speed 1.

Review:
It is a good consistency and didn't need to be reduced any more after 40 minutes.  It made enough to fill 3 jam jars (2 x 250g & 1 x 500g).  I prefer the taste of tomato relish (personal preference), but this is quite nice for a change.

[Ninny]

I made the Relish today, but silly me should have researched the forum first. After the 40minutes it was still in large pieces so I chopped it briefly on 5 and it looks great, tastes beaut too. They will be little Christmas Presents once I tizz them up!
I will be making another batch tomorrow, even though I used large onions i would have liked more! Jenny. 

[Thermo Jo (aka Jodi)]

I'm making it at the moment.  Silly me didn't read the forum first either. 
Not to worry, I'll do what you did Jenny and give it a wizz at the end.  I'm making if for Christmas presents too. Nothing like leaving things until the last minute. 
I work better under pressure anyway.
Merry Christmas everyone!

 

[bigTcup]

Thanks for the tips ladies. I whizzed up the apple and apricots first, then whizzed the onions, then cooked on reverse once I was happy with the consistency. I'm not a relish person but my DH and Step mum loved it!

[Sonan]

oh dear, I should have read the forum too ... it's brewing away all chunky - I might chop it a bit now and see how I go !

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I hope it works out well for you. 

[Sonan]

the texture ended up right, but I don't think it has a lot of flavour? might need some garlic and pepper or something?

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

I prefer tomato relish. We weren't overly keen on this.

[Sonan]

Chelsea, can you direct me to the tomato relish recipe plse???

[judydawn]

I think this is the one Chelsea means Sonan

[Chelsea (Thermie Groupie)]

Thanks JD. 

[Sonan]

thank you girls

[NomesFog]

Really love this recipe!
Ended up doing a few things differently tho.

1- used Brown onions...didn't have any red and we'd just bought a bulk bag of onions.
2- used a red apple as didn't have any green.
3- used Brown instead of Dark Brown sugar...not sure how much that would have changed things...
4- after reading everyones reccommendations I chopped everything for 10sec speed 4 and it was the perfect consistency 

i think it's just delicious! Can't wait to dish it up at our BBQ on the weekend!

[bickie]

I also thought this was great - but also didn't have enough red so used half brown. I am wondering if that gives it a better more 'oniony' flavour as this was definitely a big hit at our house.

[HARPER]

I am making this today, I used red onion only 150g red wine and I couldn't find dried apricots with out crappy preservatives, so I used dried cranberries instead
I also accidentally added 10 more grams of brown sugar
wizzed up onions and cranberries on speed 4 for 2 lots of 20 secs as that was the consistancy i liked, reverse, sp1, 100 c, 40 mins

Will let you know how it goes!

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