Cooking: Green Tomato Chutney

Sometimes my boyfriend comes back from Capoeira class with some interesting items. For example, there is a girl in his class who's family is vegan and last year for Halloween they did go trick or treating but got some not so vegan candy, so she brought it to class and he brought some home... a lot of it home. This time he brought home a little over one in a half pounds of green tomatoes. They were fairly small so fried green tomatoes were out of the question, but green tomato chutney was not.
Chutney is a condiment that you can use on a myriad of items. It's sort of liked pickled/ sweet whatever the main ingredient is. I would use it to dip veggies, pakoras, french fries, on veggie burgers, whatever is your taste preference.
This recipe comes from Vegetarian Planet by Didi Emmons and is pretty simple but takes a little over an hour to make but worth it for the pickled sweetness. It calls for onions, ginger, oil, coriander, allspice, sugar, apple cider vinegar, water, and raisins.

Ingredients sans oil

The first step is to heat up the oil, add the onions and then the spices for five minutes. Then you add the rest of it except the raisins and simmer it for about an hour. Then you add the raisins and let it cool.