Spiced Mango Chutney

Chutney is fruit, acid, sugar and time, and the only one people get wrong is the fruit. Ripe mango tastes better raw and worse cooked.

Buy it firm, almost disappointing, and let the pan do what ripening would have.

Chutney is finished when a spoon dragged across the pan leaves a channel that fills back slowly.

Judge it by that, never by the clock — fruit varies too much for a timer to be honest.