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Chutney

Also called chatney and chatni

Chutney is a condiment sauce that can be made raw or as a preserve. Cooks serve it with rice or cold cuts.

Chutney, in dish

Photo: Charles Haynes · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use chutney

Typical ways to cook or use it

  • Preserve
  • Raw

Preparing it

For fresh chutneys, grind the flavourings each day.

Goes well with

Around the world

Where chutney is cooked

1 dish in the catalogue uses chutney. Here is where they come from.

Origins

  1. The 1500s · India

    An early 16th-century account describes chutney served at a royal table in southern India.

  2. 1896 · India and United Kingdom

    A London company began importing chutney from India.

On the table

Dishes made with chutney

1 dish in the catalogue uses it.
  • Grilletta

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chutney.

Around the world

What chutney is called

Names in 77 languages, from Wikidata.
  • Spanish

    chutney · Encurtido de la India · Mint chutney · Chatni de coco

  • French

    chutney

  • Italian

    chutney · chatni

  • Portuguese

    chutney · chatni · chetnim

  • German

    Chutney · Chatni · Mango Chutney

  • Dutch

    chutney

  • Greek

    τσάτνεϊ

  • Turkish

    Chutney

  • Russian

    чатни

  • Polish

    chutney · Ćatni · czatní · czatnej

  • Arabic

    كتنية · صلصة توابل · تشاتني · جتني

  • Persian

    چتنی

Show all 77 languages
  • Afrikaans

    blatjang

  • Armenian

    չատնի

  • Assamese

    চাটনি

  • Asturian

    chutney

  • Azerbaijani

    çatni

  • Bangla

    চাটনি

  • Bashkir

    чатни

  • Basque

    chutney · txutney

  • Belarusian

    чатни

  • Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)

    чатні

  • Breton

    chatni · chutney

  • Bulgarian

    чътни

  • Burmese

    ကျစ်တနီ

  • Cantonese

    印度酸辣醬

  • Catalan

    chutney

  • Cebuano

    caṭnī

  • Chinese

    chutney

  • Croatian

    Chutney

  • Czech

    čatní · Čatný · chutney

  • Danish

    chutney

  • Egyptian Arabic

    تشاتنى (صلصه)

  • Esperanto

    ĉatnio

  • Estonian

    chutney

  • Fiji Hindi (Latin)

    caṭnī

  • Finnish

    chutney

  • Galician

    chutney

  • Gan Chinese

    啑呢

  • Gan Chinese (Simplified)

    啑呢

  • Gan Chinese (Traditional)

    啑呢

  • Gujarati

    ચટણી

  • Haitian Creole

    chutne

  • Hebrew

    צ'אטני

  • Hindi

    चटनी

  • Hungarian

    csatni

  • Indonesian

    chutney · chatni

  • Japanese

    チャツネ · チャツネー

  • Javanese

    chutney

  • Kannada

    ಚಟ್ನಿ

  • Kashmiri

    ژؠٹِنؠ · ژیٛۆٹ

  • Kazakh

    Чатни

  • Kazakh (Arabic)

    تشاتنىي

  • Kazakh (China)

    تشاتنىي

  • Kazakh (Cyrillic)

    чатни

  • Kazakh (Kazakhstan)

    чатни

  • Kazakh (Latin)

    çatnï

  • Kazakh (Türkiye)

    çatnï

  • Korean

    차트니 · 처트니

  • Latvian

    čatnijs

  • Lithuanian

    čatnis

  • Malay

    cutni

  • Malayalam

    ചമ്മന്തി · ചട്‌ണി · സമ്മന്തി · ചട്ണി

  • Marathi

    चटणी

  • Nepali

    चटनी

  • Norwegian Bokmål

    chutney

  • Norwegian Nynorsk

    chutney

  • Odia

    ଚଟଣୀ

  • Punjabi

    ਚਟਨੀ

  • Romanian

    chutney

  • Santali

    ᱪᱟᱴᱱᱤ

  • Serbian

    čatni

  • Sindhi

    چٽڻي

  • Slovak

    čatní

  • Slovenian

    chutney

  • Swedish

    chutney

  • Tamil

    சட்னி

  • Telugu

    పచ్చడి · చట్నీలు · చట్నీ

  • Thai

    ชัตนีย์

  • Ukrainian

    чатні

  • Urdu

    چٹنی

  • Vietnamese

    chutney

  • Welsh

    siytni

  • Western Panjabi

    چٹݨی

  • Wu Chinese

    酸辣酱

  • Yiddish

    טשאַטני

Sources and credits

Data

  • GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
  • Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
  • Wikimedia Commons: photos
  • Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q275650

Photos

Photo: Charles Haynes · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons