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How to use chutney in a sentence

14 example sentences · noun

Chutney means a sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers. Example: “Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.”

More sentences with chutney

  • Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.From the entry dosa
  • Ranjan was busy gorging on mangodas, a spicier variant of the pakoda, dipped in tamarind chutney.2024 May 8, Col Ashutosh Kale, Rambo: The true account of a Special Forces Officer, Major Sudhir Waliaǀ True story of a brave Para SF…. From the entry mangoda
  • The dosas all came with coconut chutney and sambar, a lentil broth — good dipping condiments.2013 June 14, Mary Jo Murphy, “Dosas, Big and Bigger”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry dosa
  • The spicy chutney is the preferred dipping sauce for fried foods, especially the beloved Bengali vegetable fritter, called a chop.2021 October 12, Cecily Wong, Dylan Thomas, “Pantry Staple: Mustard”, in Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, Workman Publishing…. From the entry kasundi
  • Try the coconut shrimp with fruit chutney.2006, Travel and Leisure, volume 36, number 11, page 252. From the entry seaside
  • He returns with a green, squashlike vegetable and chutney.2006, Doris Friedensohn, Carol Kitman, Eating as I go: scenes from America and abroad. From the entry squashlike
  • Thosai is usually eaten with coconut chutney and sambar.2006, Naleeza Ebrahim, Yaw Yan Yee, Singapore, Marshall Cavendish, →ISBN, page 132. From the entry thosai
  • To accompany meat, we prepare fruit ketchups and rhubarb chutney.2003, Inns and Bed and Breakfasts in Quebec 2003, Ulysses Travel Guides, page 46. From the entry ketchup
  • Princess Jeeta fed me dozens of the hot kebabs I loved, which I coated with mango chutney and wrapped in chapati.1990, Hanif Kureishi, chapter 4, in The Buddha of Suburbia, London; Boston: Faber and Faber, →ISBN, page 52. From the entry chapati
  • This tart started out as a chutney recipe, but the texture was too fruity, almost like apple saucey—not great for chutney, but stupendous nevertheless.1996, Carol Gelles, 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2015, →ISBN. From the entry apple saucey
  • In Hotel Vinayaka Muruga, one can order a dosa with none, any, some or all of coconut chutney, pudhina chutney, onion chutney, chilli sauce or red chilli powder.2009, T. Sengadir, Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, page 165. From the entry pudhina
  • In every kitchen arises the acrid tang of green- tomato pickle, chutney, chili; on every south-facing kitchen windowsill the most promising greenies line up to be coaxed ripe.1987, Maxine Kumin, In deep: country essays, page 98. From the entry greenie
  • Sunshine ranks high in the island's greates burger debate, while the chicken egg rolls with mango chutney and jerk mayo and fabulous fish tacos elevate pub grub to an art.2016, Fodor's Essential Caribbean, Fodor's Travel, →ISBN. From the entry jerk
  • Doubles is a popular fast-food in Trinidad of two bara (fried flat bread) filled with channa (chickpea curry) and pepper sauce, kuchela (shredded mango chutney), and other sauces or salads.2016, Movindri Reddy, “Doubles”, in Social Movements and the Indian Diaspora (Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series), Abingdon…. From the entry fast-food

Meaning of chutney

  1. noun A sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers.
  2. noun A style of Indo-Caribbean music from the West Indies, associated especially with Trinidad and Tobago.

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Questions about chutney in a sentence

How do you use chutney in a sentence?
Chutney is used as a noun. For example: “Eric dipped a piece of the dosa in the coconut chutney.”
What is a short sentence with chutney?
“Try the coconut shrimp with fruit chutney.”
What does chutney mean?
Chutney means a sweet or savory but usually spicy condiment, originally from eastern India, made from a variety of fruits and/or vegetables, often containing significant amounts of fresh green or dried red chili peppers.

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