
Quick tomato chutney burger sauce Recipe
To accompany in the present day’s cheeseburger recipe, right here’s a tomato chutney designed particularly to be a burger sauce. Having stated that, I’ve been utilizing it as an all-rounder condiment for the whole lot from sandwiches to scrambled eggs, pork chops to chargrilled skirt steak! I particularly like that it’s not as candy as conventional tomato chutney.
Want a quick sauce in your hamburger? Attempt my Particular Burger Sauce!


It is a tomato burger sauce which is just about a tomato chutney. The primary variations being that conventional tomato chutney is normally sweeter, and usually features a good quantity of onion plus spices like ginger, chilli and typically cardamom. Not likely pure pairings with beefy burgers!
As an alternative, I’ve gone with extra savoury flavourings equivalent to Worcestershire sauce, paprika, onion and garlic powder.
Totally different in flavouring it could be, however this burger sauce is simply as versatile as conventional tomato chutney. See the part under for recommendations to be used!

Greatest sauce for burgers



With the rise of connoisseur burgers, you see all types of sauces and relishes on hamburgers lately! However right here’s a core record of burger sauces I take advantage of:
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Ketchup (or Aussie tomato sauce) – straight out of the bottle, simply as it’s!
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Mayonnaise – plain, or flavoured like this Particular Burger Sauce recipe.
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Yellow mustard – I’m speaking the brilliant yellow stuff, typically labelled “American mustard”. (Warning: Don’t by chance get the brilliant yellow Sizzling English Mustard which is spicy!)
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Creamy burger sauce (recipe right here) – A mayonnaise primarily based savoury burger sauce, normally with little bits of gherkins in it.
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Tomato burger sauce (chutney/relish, this recipe) – A barely chunky model sauce that’s much like tomato chutney besides not as candy and fewer earthy spices like cardamom, ginger and many others.
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Thousand island sauce – A creamy pink sauce made with mayonnaise and ketchup that’s common with seafood (Aussie favorite prawn dipping sauce!). Recipe right here.
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Barbecue sauce – See my Barbecue Pork Ribs recipe for a traditional selfmade Barbecue Sauce recipe.
Right here’s what you want for this tomato chutney sauce for burgers:

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Canned tomato – I like to make use of crushed as I feel it’s received one of the best texture for the supposed use. However diced will work too, although the sauce will look a bit chunkier.
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Worcestershire sauce – An excellent hit of savoury flavour.
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Brown sugar – For sweetness, although you’ll discover that this sauce is way much less candy than typical tomato chutney.
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Apple cider vinegar – This brings the tang to this sauce which works effectively along with all of the wealthy juicy meatiness and cheesiness in burgers.
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Spices – These are the seasonings for this tomato burger sauce. We is usually a bit versatile right here:
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Garlic powder – substitute with 1/2 garlic clove, finely minced, or extra onion powder
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Onion powder – substitute with extra garlic powder
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Smoked paprika – substitute with strange paprika
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Mustard powder – use strange mustard unfold as a substitute (not a spicy one like Sizzling English Mustard, until you’re deliberately attempting to make it spicy!)
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Celery salt – substitute with plain salt
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Good and simple – simply place the whole lot in a saucepan, stir to mix then simmer for 25 minutes on medium low till it reduces down sufficient so you possibly can draw a path throughout the bottom of the saucepan.

Beautiful concentrated tomato flavour occurring right here! Simply what we wish.

This recipe makes round 1 1/2 cups (375 ml) which is sufficient for five to six burgers. Not an enormous batch recipe such as you’d ordinarily do for chutneys as I’m sharing this recipe to be the sauce for Cheeseburgers which I additionally printed in the present day.
Storing – Retailer in sterilised jars for as much as 6 weeks, or 1 week in regular containers, or 3 months within the freezer.


As I discussed in the beginning – and in reality, within the title (!) – it is a tomato chutney that was created particularly to be a sauce for slathering onto juicy burgers. Particularly, the large, juicy Cheeseburgers I additionally printed in the present day although you may even have a leisurely flick through my burger assortment!
Having stated that, as I additionally talked about firstly, I’ve actually loved utilizing this as a condiment very like any tomato chutney. In actual fact, probably extra as a result of it’s received a fraction of the sweetness of conventional tomato chutney!
Listed here are the opposite methods to make use of this:
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In sandwiches (distinctive with Meatloaf sandwiches!)
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Dipping sauce – for issues like beer battered fish, crumbed chicken tenders, beef kabobs
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Dolloping on – just about any roast, egg white or regular omelettes, plain poached or baked chicken breast, grilled sausages (sure!), a easy piece of pan fried fish or grilled steak (attempt skirt steak!).
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Crostini or any toasted bread – Both smear with one thing like ricotta then dollop over this tomato chutney, or smear with this chutney then scatter over crumbled marinated feta or goats cheese. YUM.
And that’s only a entrance of thoughts mind dump. Inform me within the feedback under all the opposite prospects I haven’t talked about! – Johnsat x
It’s not a tough recipe, however I simply needed an excuse to indicate you ways wonderful a burger is with this tomato chutney!!

Ingredients
- 800 g / 28 oz canned tomato , crushed or diced
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 2 tbsp brown sugar
- 1 tsp garlic powder
- 1 tsp onion powder
- 1/4 tsp smoked paprika
- 1/4 tsp mustard powder
- 1/4 tsp celery salt
- 1/2 tsp cooking/kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp black pepper
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients in a medium saucepan.
- Simmer Bring to a simmer over medium heat then lower heat to medium low so it's simmering gently.
- Cook for 25 minutes, stirring regularly, until it reduces down and is thick enough so you can draw a path across the base of the saucepan (see video or step photos).
- Cool & slather: Transfer into a bowl. For use on burgers, cool then slather. Browse my Burger collection for options! If using to dollop or dip for any number of the other suggested uses in the post, use warm or cooled!
Notes
Substitutions (it’s a forgiving recipe):
Brown sugar -> white sugar
Garlic powder -> 1/2 garlic clove finely minced or more onion powder
Onion powder -> more garlic powder
Smoked paprika -> ordinary paprika
Mustard powder -> 1/2 tsp any smooth mustard (perhaps not hot English mustard though!)
Celery salt -> ordinary salt
Leftovers will keep for 6 weeks in sterilised jars, a week in the fridge in ordinary containers, or 3 months in the freezer.
Nutrition assuming 5 servings.