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Nelson Mandela, Table Mountain, Kruger National Park, and Mrs H. S. Ball's Chutney are all South African icons. Of these, Mrs H. S. Ball's Chutney is the only one that can be packed down, and be taken around the world, to be enjoyed every day with your breakfasts, lunches, and dinners. Try it with bacon and eggs or serve it as a dip. Have it as a complement to roasts and barbecued meat and as an ingredient in curries and stews.
Close your eyes and you'll find that its light smooth texture and well-rounded sweet spiciness brings it all to you - the fresh sea breeze of Cape Town, the peaks and creeks of the majestic Drakensberg, the vast spaces of the Karoo and the green valleys of Mpumalanga.
Visit 'Recipes' and 'African spice kits' for recipes containing Mrs Balls Chutney
We sell three flavours of Mrs Ball’s Chutney that fit nicely into our attractive hand-made wire & bead carriers. This way you can bring your chutney straight from your kitchen to the table and everybody gets to taste their specific favourite!
Original recipe (click to order)
This is the mildest of the three but as the ‘original’ it has plenty of character and a round attractive palate. A children’s favourite! Use this chutney in your cooking when you want to add that extra body to a stew or marinade. Use it as a sauce with your food! Ingredients: sugar, water, vinegar, peaches, apricots, sulphur dioxide (preservative), starch, salt, colour, spices. Net weight: 470 g.
Hot Chutney (click to order)
This chutney is not as ‘hot’ as the name suggests. It seems less sweet than the ‘original’, with a rich full-bodied spiciness. It is fantastic as a sauce together with your food but also as an ingredient, both in cold and hot dishes. Clear winners are, for example, the South African chutney sauce and the Sunny potato salad (see Recipes). Ingredients: sugar, water, vinegar, peaches, apricots, sulphur dioxide (antioxidant), starch, salt, Worcestershire sauce, spices, colour. Net weight: 470 g.
Chilli Chutney (click to order)
Chilli Chutney has the body of a-not-so-sweet smooth chutney with the extra ‘bite’ of a chilli sauce. It is very popular as a marinade before you grill or stir-fry chicken fillets or beef. It works beautifully in combination with butter and garlic as a Chutney butter that melts on your steak or in a baked potato! Use it with sour cream and garlic for a cold (and yet chilli hot!) dip sauce for seafood or grilled meat. Ingredients: sugar, water, vinegar, peaches, apricots, onions, sulphur dioxide (antioxidant), starch, salt, chillies, spices, Worcestershire sauce. Net weight: 470 g.
It started small - in Amelia’s kitchen...
The success story of Mrs H. S. Ball's Chutney has very humble beginnings. Mrs Amelia Ball lived in Cape Town and was married to Mr H. S. Ball. She made this chutney during the First World War as an extra income and sold it to family and friends, and on church bazaars. When the chutney became more and more popular, a Cape Town businessman helped the couple to create the signature octagonal jar and label with the family crest. The Afrikaans word for chutney is 'blatjang'. The word has its origin in the Javanese sambal 'blachang' that was imported before chutney was produced in the Cape. Blatjang is the pride of the Cape Malay kitchen, and it has been described as a "bitingly spicy, pungently aromatic, moderately smooth and a very intimately mixed association of ingredients".
Today, Mrs H. S. Ball's Chutney is exported to many countries, including Sweden, UK, Australia, and USA. Taste of Africa is on a mission to bring it further around the world. Look out! Here it comes!
In this house in Cape Town, Amelia Ball began making the chutney we know today as Mrs H. S. Ball’s Chutney – a world-renowned product that has charmed us completely. Once you’re hooked you can’t live without it!