Passionate Starfruit Cranberry Chutney

 I normally have passion fruit off and on during the year, but some kind soul dropped off a bag of the purple ones, at our office yesterday, which needed to be used, yesterday.  So, I just whipped up a batch of passion fruit syrup, which is excellent on cheese cake, as well as pancakes.  And, there was a tad extra.....so.....

Next we have starfruit, or carambola, dropping off the tree.  You see where this is going, combined with a smallish basket of imported pricey cranberries, this should make a totally excellent chutney.  Maybe some hot pepper flakes, a bit of ginger and cardamom could be added in. Yes, I do think so.  A different take from the one I made last year.

finely mince the ginger

Passionate Starfruit Cranberry Chutney

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
1/2 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup passion fruit syrup
2 cups diced starfruits (carambola)
2 cups cranberries
seeds from 3 cardamom pods, crushed,
1 thumb ginger, peeled and finely minced
dash salt
dash crushed red pepper flakes
1 teaspoon lemon zest, finely minced
1/2 cup water

Dissolve the sugar in the vinegar over medium heat, add the syrup, fruits, water and spices.  Bring to a boil, then turn down and simmer until thickened, stirring frequently.  It takes about 40 minutes or so.  Cool, then cover and refrigerate in jars.

This should keep for at least a week as long as you keep it chilled.  Have some with your lamb ribs, or ham, or yes, of course, with that turkey.  I am linking with Week-end Herb Blogging, hosted this week by Haalo of Cook (Almost) Anything.  The re-cap is up, so check out some awesome recipes, celebrating the 5th birthday of Weekend Herb Blogging.