🇬🇧🇪🇸 chutney - chutney : English Lesson

Meaning of "chutney" ("chutney"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

Chutney is a thick, tasty sauce that people usually eat cold with other foods like meat, rice, or cheese. It is often made by cooking fruit or vegetables with sugar, vinegar, and spices. This makes it sweet, tangy, and sometimes a little spicy. Chutney can be made from many things, like mangoes, apples, tomatoes, or onions, and it adds a strong, exciting flavor to your meal.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

My cousin said he could eat chutney with anything, so we watched him dip a plain lettuce leaf in it like it was fancy cuisine.

My sandwich leaked chutney onto my shirt, so now I’m wearing a portable snack.

My brother tried to say he didn’t like chutney, but his mouth was too busy eating the whole jar.

The chutney was sweet, sour, and spicy all at once, like it couldn’t decide what kind of sauce it wanted to be.

Chutney comes from Indian cooking traditions and can be made from many things like mango, coconut, or mint, so it can be sweet, sour, spicy, or all three at once on your surprised tongue.

At the park, a child opened a glass jar of chutney and scooped a cold spoonful onto warm bread. The chutney glinted with fruit and spice. Grandmother tasted the chutney, laughed, and passed the jar. They dipped cheese, shared chutney on crackers, and the picnic grew noisy and bright. Everyone reached for more chutney, smiling.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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