{"id":1082,"date":"2014-12-24T08:35:43","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T12:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2015-11-11T05:45:55","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T09:45:55","slug":"is-it-a-chutney-is-it-a-relish-is-it-a-salsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/is-it-a-chutney-is-it-a-relish-is-it-a-salsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it a chutney? Is it a relish? Is it a salsa?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chutney-relish-salsa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1083\" src=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/chutney-relish-salsa.jpg\" alt=\"chutney relish salsa\" width=\"236\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gourmetomatic.com\/side_dishes_principles.html\">Relishes, chutneys and salsas<\/a>, are all related, but they have different taste and textural characteristics.\u00a0 They are made from basically the same ingredients and differ from each other primarily in the relative proportions of these ingredients.\u00a0 By changing the proportions, each side dish gets its distinctive qualities.\u00a0 For example, <strong>salsas<\/strong> are usually the hottest of the three, i.e., there is more emphasis on the hot peppers. <strong>Chutneys<\/strong> are usually the fruitiest and <strong>relishes<\/strong> generally emphasize vegetables more than chutneys do.\u00a0 <strong>Chutneys<\/strong> tend to be a tad thicker than <strong>relishes<\/strong> and significantly less south of the USA border than<strong> salsas<\/strong>.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A red or green hot chili pepper is more appropriate than a jalapeno.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perisspiceladle.com\/2013\/03\/15\/a-collection-of-chutneys\/\">&#8220;In addition to regular flavors like mango and cranberry<\/a>, think outside the box for interesting chutneys, made with ginger or peanuts, lemon or gourd, green chili peppers or tamarind, cilantro or carrots, prawns or mussels.\u00a0 Mathematically speaking, <strong>a chutney formula<\/strong> runs something like this:<br \/>\nMain ingredient: fruit, vegetable, seafood or herb<br \/>\n+ Spices<br \/>\n+ Sweetening Ingredient<br \/>\n+ Preserving Element (sometimes just as simple as salt)<br \/>\n= One Delicious Chutney Preparation<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=1076\">A semi-homemade cranberry orange apricot chutney\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relishes, chutneys and salsas, are all related, but they have different taste and textural characteristics.\u00a0 They are made from basically the same ingredients and differ from each other primarily in the relative proportions of these ingredients.\u00a0 By changing the proportions, each side dish gets its distinctive qualities.\u00a0 For example, salsas are usually the hottest of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5vW9k-hs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1229,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}