feijoa & prune Indian relish

Astar is a host for Television New Zealand, who covers craft and foodie segments on the Good Morning show. Deep in the archives, I found a feijoa segment dating from 2008 which included this unusual recipe for a spicy Indian-style relish that features feijoas as the key ingredient.

FEIJOA & PRUNE INDIAN RELISH

Ingredients

• 1kg feijoas – remove flower stalk and chop
• 2 granny smith apples – chopped, leave skins on
• 1 packet pitted prunes
• ½ packet currants
• ½ packet sugared ginger – finely chopped
• 2 red onions – chopped
• couple chopped garlic cloves
• 1 tablespoon mustard seeds
• 1 tablespoon grated ginger
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 kg sugar
• 2 tablespoon molasses
• 2 ½ cups malt vinegar
• 1 teaspoon each cayenne pepper, all spice, mixed spice
• ½ teaspoon five-spice

Method

1. Bring all ingredients to the boil and simmer away about 1 hour.
2. Cool then add 1 teaspoon citric acid.
3. Store in clean screwtop jars.