Name: Sour-Plum Chutney with Chile Oil
Yield: Makes About 1½ Cups
Cuisine: Myanmar (Burma)
Ingredients: Scant 3 tablespoons chopped palm sugar or brown sugar; ½ to 1 teaspoon Red Chile Oil; 1 pound Asian sour plums, peeled and coarsely chopped, or substitute ¾ pound tomatillos, husked and rinsed, green tomatoes, or damson plums, coarsely chopped; ¼ cup water; 3 or 4 bird (Thai) chiles or 3 red cayenne chiles, seeded and minced; 1 tablespoon minced garlic; ½ teaspoon salt, or to taste; 1 teaspoon fish sauce; 3 tablespoons peanut oil

Preparation info

Makes About
1½ Cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Burma

By Naomi Duguid

Published 2012

About

There’s a sour plum in Southeast Asia sometimes called hog plum in English and that I know by its Thai name, makawk. I saw makawk for sale at the market in Hpa’an, capital of Karen State, and later came across this yummy chutney in a small Hpa’an eatery. It’s very