Tomato Chutney Is a Tasty Addition for Your Meals and Easy to Make

This tasty tomato chutney is a great healthy condiment for a curry meal and it is so easy to prepare. The red of Tomatoes is what makes them full of health benefits, even when you are enjoying them as a chutney or tomato sauce. 

Tomatoes are fat-burning, help prevent cancer, and are a very heart-healthy food.

The common apple has uncommonly huge health benefits..Your mom didn’t use the term superfood but she knew about apples.

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away” was the first nutritional advice I and many children heard from their moms.  For this reason, we call them “the first superfood.”  The apples pair very well with the tomatoes in this chutney.

Onions add a great flavor to the tomato chutney. WHO recognizes that Onions help relieve symptoms such as coughs, congestion asthma, and respiratory infections. Onions are full of protective phytonutrients, vitamins, trace minerals, quercetin (an important flavonoid), chromium, and unique anti-inflammatory nutrients.

I love adding garlic to this tomato chutney. To get the most health benefits from Garlic, let it sit for a minimum of 5 minutes, after cutting and before eating or cooking.  Waiting for 5 – 10 minutes allows the health-promoting allicin to form.  If you do not let it sit, allicin is never formed, so it is worth the wait. Add some garlic to your soups, stews, and salad dressing recipes to lower high cholesterol.  Sometimes it is easier to use some Organic Freeze Dried Garlic so no chopping and peeling. 

Himalayan Salt is actually good for you! 100% NATURAL PINK & CERTIFIED: Sherpa Pink Himalayan Salt is is Kosher Certified, Non-GMO, and does not contain any MSG, Soy, Gluten, Dairy, or anti-caking agents.honey benefits

Honey is so good for you that we have included it in our list of superfoods that should be in your kitchen right now. Honey helps prevents cancer and heart disease reduces ulcers and other gastrointestinal disorders as well as reducing cough and throat irritation. It is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal and increases athletic performance.  Honey is a probiotic and helps to heal wounds and burns while strengthening the immune system.

As I don’t use sugar for my cooking I often use stevia which is the healthy option and I have added some to this tomato chutney recipe.  The stevia plant is incredibly sweet and also incredibly good for you. The leaf is 30 times sweeter than sugar while extracts are 300-400 times sweeter. So all you need in this olive oil lemon juice salad dressing is a few drops. The best stevia will, therefore, be the one that retains some whole food value and is water-based.  Liquid forms will be less processed.  Go here to learn How to Get the Best Stevia Without the Bitterness.

When we think of cinnamon we usually imagine delicious pastries or a hot drink but cinnamon is also full of health benefits.  These benefits are backed by valid scientific research. It is helpful from lowering “bad” HDL cholesterol levels to lowering blood sugar levels.

Tomato Chutney

This tasty tomato chutney is a great healthy condiment for a curry meal and it is so easy to prepare.
Course Sauce
Cuisine gluten-free, Indian, vegan, vegetarian
Keyword chutney, condiment, Gluten-free, tomato, Vegan, vegetarian
Author Diana Herrington

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 cups fresh tomatoes
  • 2 medium cooking apples
  • 1 small onion
  • 1-2 cloves garlic
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 1 tsp Himalayan salt
  • 1/8 cup honey
  • 1/4 tsp light liquid stevia
  • 4 Tbsp apple cider vinegar
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 1/2 tsp cardamom
  • 1/2 tsp cumin
  • 1/4 tsp cloves
  • 1/4-1/2 tsp cayenne pepper optional

Instructions

  • Chop the tomatoes and the apples.
  • Finley chop the onion.
  • Mince the garlic.
  • Mix all of the ingredients together in a pot.
  • Boil gently for 45 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  • Pour the chutney into jars and let it cool completely.
  • It is best to serve this tomato chutney cold as a condiment with a delicious curry.

Notes

Find out more about the healthy ingredients that I used for this chutney: tomatoes,  apples,  onion, garlic, Himalayan Salt, honey, stevia, cinnamon 

 

 Try this other tasty chutney:

mango chutney
Mango Chutney is Tasty and Healthy Too
 Mango Chutney is So Tasty and Healthy Too – It is made without white sugar and white vinegar so it is much healthier.
Here are some of my favorite Tomato Recipes:

 Avocado Tomato Salad DressingAvocado Salad Dressing This Avocado Tomato Salad Dressing is an easy way to jazz up any salad! This is a base recipe that you can alter with your choice of herbs or salty flavors. This is enough for three large salads.  A healthy homemade salad dressing is always the way to go. Those store-bought ones are very often filled with unhealthy ingredients.

Tomato Salad Dressing – This delicious tomato salad dressing is a very light dressing vegan recipe and is excellent for those wanting a low-fat dressing. Also, it is full of superfoods (olive oiltomato, and stevia).  It is always good to make your own salad dressing so you can use a nutritious oil, not too much salt, and no sugar. I have been making my own salad dressing for decades.

Asparagus Tomato Salad – This luxurious asparagus tomato salad was enjoyed so much the first time I created the recipe so I never stopped serving it.   I used parsley because that is what I had but chopped basil or mint would be good too.

Tasty Tomato Chutney – This tasty tomato chutney is a great healthy condiment for a curry meal and it is so easy to prepare.

Enjoy a Cool Tomato Soup On a Hot Summer Day – This is a one-bowl serving so if you are making it for two, double the recipe accordingly.  Tasty cold tomato soup is refreshing, nutritious, tastes divine, and great for a hot summer day.  You don’t even need to turn on the stove to heat up your house for this recipe.  This soup is made in a blender or food processor and is fast and easy to make.  This makes it a perfect quick lunch or dinner when you want something refreshing in the summer.

Bloody Mary Alcohol-Free

Bloody Mary Alcohol-free Recipe Is Healthy and Delicious -Have you ever had an alcohol-free Bloody Mary? Whenever we think of a Bloody Mary drink it is full of alcohol. Many of us (me included) do not drink alcohol so we never drink one. So I created this alcohol-free Bloody Mary that is healthier too.  So often what we find at parties are pops and very unhealthy drinks full of alcohol. In our testing, we always find that alcohol lowers the vitality of everyone which includes me.

vital healt assessment

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