Irish apple chutney and homemade seeded Irish bread by Roisin Murray-Gibbons

Recipe by Rosin Murray-Gibbons

This recipe was submitted by Roisin Murray-Gibbons as part of our Big Lunch Recipe Search competition. “Serve this tasty healthy bread with Irish Dubliner Cheese. This bread is delicious with Kerry Gold butter and Irish smoked salmon also or for a sweet treat is delicious with homemade fruit jams made from the community garden. You can make the bread with oats only and omit the flour and increase oat content.”

Ingredients

Homemade Armagh apple chutney

1 ½ kg cooking apples, peeled and diced
750g light muscovado sugar (or any sugar you have, white works too)
500g raisins (or dried fruit of choice)
2 medium onions, finely chopped
2tsps dried ginger
1 tsp salt
700ml cider vinegar

Irish wheaten soda seed bread

14ozs coarse wheat meal flour
2ozs porridge oats
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 level teaspoons baking soda
12-14 ozs buttermilk
2-3 tablespoons mixed seeds
Add 1 grated apple or carrot or turmeric root

Method

Method for chutney

Combine all the ingredients in a large, heavy saucepan.
Bring the mixture to a boil over a medium heat, simmer uncovered, stirring frequently, for 30-40 mins, or until thick and pulpy.
Remove from the heat, leave to cool, transfer to sterilised, clean, dry jars and seal.