To make the chutney:<\/span><\/p>\n50g butter
\n2 onions, peeled and sliced
\nA thumb of ginger, peeled and grated
\n1kg rhubarb, washed and chopped into chunks
\n500g caster sugar
\n150ml red wine vinegar
\n150ml red wine
\nSalt and pepper<\/p>\n
Melt the butter in a saucepan and soften the onion with the ginger over a low heat for 10 minutes or so. Add the rhubarb, sugar, vinegar, wine and season. Bring to the boil and simmer gently for an hour to an hour and a half, until it has reduced and thickened (it will continue to thicken on cooling). Store in the fridge in sterilised jars.<\/p>\n
Serve with pork chops that you have fried for 4 minutes or so on each side, grain mustard and parsley mash, and a stick of crackling. Some broccoli wouldn’t go amiss.<\/p>\n
First exam tomorrow. I ought to be working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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