The flavour of your chutney chicken will be influenced by the brand and type of chutney you use. I usually make my own, but for this recipe I used Mrs. Balls Light Fruit Chutney. This brand is iconic in South Africa and a condiment I often take to a friend when we travel to see her in London.

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I spoke about how I readvanced my home loan to install solar generated power into our home. The process to do so was fairly simple. Since Covid you cannot speak to someone face-to-face and luckily I got through to an amazing gentleman in the call centre. He informed me straight away that I could get the original bond amount again, and directed me to the website for the forms I had to complete. Once that was done I had to submit my annual financial statements as I am self-employed. And they needed my SARS declarations for both my company and myself. From there documents were sent to my closest bank branch for me to sign. The lady I dealt with was amazing and we managed to get everything done in no time at all. Within 5 days the money was in my account and we were good to go.
Today’s inspirational recipe from Lavender and Lime ♥ Chutney Chicken ♥ #LavenderAndLime Share on X
Dave was chatting with a friend who mentioned his brother-in-law was a solar installer. Once the finance was available Dave went to chat to him and Johannes came out to quote on our needs. We decided to reduce our reliability on Eskom as much as possible. This meant a huge outlay for the solar panels, 2 batteries and an 8kVA inverter. I want to be able to use more than one appliance at a time if necessary. The installation was completed a week after we paid the deposit and half way through December we were no longer affected by load shedding. This was quite a relief as by the first week of January we were without Eskom power for at least 9 hours a day! The situation is only going to get worse so I am grateful we made this decision.
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Chutney Chicken
Ingredients
- 4 chicken thighs
- 4 chicken drumsticks
- olive oil for drizzliing
- 20 mls Cajun spices
- 300 g fruit chutney
- 125 mls water
- 15 mls lemon juice
- rice for serving
Method
- Place the chicken into a bowl and drizzle with oilive oil
- Add the spices and toss to coat
- Place a non stick lidded pan on to heat over a medium temperature
- Brown the chicken in batches so as to not crowd the pan
- Place the chutney, water and lemon juice into a jug and whisk to combine
- When the chicken is browned, place all the pieces into the pan (place the thighs skin side up) and pour the chutney over the chicken
- Bring to a simmer then reduce the temperature slightly, cover and cook for 15 minutes
- Remove the lid, increase the temperature, turn the chicken pieces and cook for another 5 minutes
- Serve with rice and as much of the sticky sauce as you want
View the previous posts on January 26:
- 2022: Gastenverblijf Rodenburg
- 2020: 19th Christmas
- 2018: Dried Mushrooms
- 2015: Ginger Caramel
- 2013: Liebster Award
- 2012: Star Anise Dusted Venison With Red Grapes
- 2011: Ras El Hanout
Have not had any kind of chutney in the house awhile . . . must try > it promises lots of flavour! You must have smaller chicken pieces than we do here ’cause this almost seems enough for four servings 😉 !
Either that, or Dave and I are big eaters 😉
This is a delicious and simple way to cook chicken Tandy. I know just the chutney to use here for this kind of dish. It must be such a relief not to have to put up with load shedding.
It is a relief at home, but we still have the pain of it at work!
I love Mrs. Balls! I can get the different varieties on Amazon! Great looking chicken.
Amazon really is amazing!
wow that’s amazing about the load shedding. must be a huge relief to have your own power. I make mango chutney every Christmas so I actually have some jars in the fridge atm. Your chicken looks very tasty Tandy!
Mango chutney will be perfect for this!
I’m sure the chutney adds a wonderful flavor to your chicken and easy too. I was not aware that we had Mrs. Balls chutney available here until I just looked it up on Amazon. I’ll have to give it a try- thanks Tandy.
Let me know what you think of our national treasure 🙂
Becoming independent of the electric grid is a goal for a lot of people. My understanding is that using solar power and battery backup is a better way for reducing overall dependence on fossil fuel as well.
best… mae at maefood.blogspot.com
indeed it is, so better all around for the long term 🙂