Apricot blatjang

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• livetoeat kate

  18 February 2008

  livetoeat kate commented on this recipe

  This was very easy to make but I'm not sure it turned out how it was supposed to and I'm not sure I'd bother again. It seemed to have an awful lot of vinegar in it with the resulting taste being a bit...vinagary!!! I did wonder whether the amount was a misprint. The bobotie that it went with was delicious though.

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• Katie

  25 February 2008

  Katie rated and commented on this recipe

  

  My daughter made this at the weekend and served it with tamborine chicken - very good. We added white wine vinegar - perhaps that made a difference (50ml and not 500g as stated above).

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• smpdit

  11 April 2008

  smpdit commented on this recipe

  please correct this recipe NOT 500ml of vinegar!

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• margaret

  16 November 2008

  margaret rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this to go with the babootie and yellow rice. I found that it made rather a lot but my friends loved all of it and they went home with the recipes and a spare jar of the apricot. I added a bit more sugar as I thought it was too acidic. It was all very good and I will definately make it again.

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• Amanda

  21 April 2010

  Amanda rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I made this to go with Bobotie for a South African menu - thank goodness I made it the day before it was terrible - like a very vinegary smooth jam - no texture and virtually no taste - other than the vinegar!! I think the big mistake was in pureeing all the ingredients and not adding any spices. I made up my own Blatjang recipe the following morning and it was absolutely fantastic - very tasty with lots of texture and it went down a treat with the Bobotie. I have submitted the recipe here if anybody cares to give it a try - I promise you its much better than this one.

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• GemR

  14 June 2010

  GemR commented on this recipe

  Made this with the suggested yellow rice and bobotie as a meal to celebrate the world cup. All were gorgeous! And they'd all make excellent dinner party recipes as this can be made ahead, there is 40 minutes after the bobotie goes in and the rice is all made in one pot so i even had time to sit and have a glass of South African wine! Highly recommended, very tasty.

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• louise

  13 August 2010

  louise rated and commented on this recipe

  

  I just had a South African dinner party and made all of the accompaniments to go with this lovely simple Bobotie. After reading everybody's comments re the Blatjang I decided to do some research before making mine and found that all recipes contain vinegar for this chutney and many suggest cooking the fruit in the vinegar to soften it. Some use malt vinegar others suggest cider vinegar. The misprint was definately the amount. Also as one lady suggests it needed more flavour, well again most other recipes used raisins,garlic, ginger and some even coriander. Try it again with those things added, it tastes good and don't over blend it if you prefer a more chunky chutney(My partner doesn't eat rice so I served his Bobotie with fried plantain). Also did some research as to what wine goes with this dish and South African Stellenbosch Pinotage was recommended. I love this web site and to be fair there's not usually many misprints like that one which has now been corrected.

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• kerse

  02 September 2011

  kerse commented on this recipe

  No real comments as I haven't tried it yet, but the method says to blend until smooth and the picture certainly doesn't look smooth. Only a minor detail anyway. Hope to try it soon.

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• Tartansanta

  07 October 2011

  Tartansanta commented on this recipe

  Amanda says she has submitted a better version of this recipe but I don't see it anywhere.

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• Druuna Lea

  27 November 2011

  Druuna Lea rated and commented on this recipe

  

  The texture was good and it went really well with bobotie and yellow rice. I added some cayenne (personal taste) and it was better - both in taste and color...but still, something was lacking.

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Ingredients

• 250g pack ready-to-eat dried apricots
• 1 red onion , quartered
• ½ tsp dried crushed chillies
• 2 garlic cloves
• 50ml white malt vinegar
• 1 heaped tbsp light muscovado sugar

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Serves 6

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Prep 5 mins

Cook 25 mins

Vegetarian, Super healthy

Counts as 1 of 5-a-day, fat-free

Ingredients

• 250g pack ready-to-eat dried apricots
• 1 red onion , quartered
• ½ tsp dried crushed chillies
• 2 garlic cloves
• 50ml white malt vinegar
• 1 heaped tbsp light muscovado sugar

Per serving

90 kcalories, protein 2g, carbohydrate 21g, fat 0 g, saturated fat 0g, fibre 3g, sugar 20g, salt 0.02 g

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