I harvest such ketchup every year MANDATORY! I have not tasted tastier! No matter how much you cook, it rarely remains until spring! It's really delicious!
See the whole process in detail in the video below at 03:57. There is also a recipe for a delicious cabbage salad and vegetable paste for soups. Look - you will like it))
I send chopped tomatoes to a large saucepan.
I also add onions and apples to this. Cover with a lid and simmer for about two hours over medium heat.
After about 20 minutes, there will already be a lot of juice at the bottom of the pot. I mix it periodically.
Then all this needs to be rubbed through a sieve, but I use a juicer. And after a few minutes I get about 4 liters of this mashed potatoes:
Now I'll prepare the spice bag. I have gauze in three layers. In the middle I spread allspice (about 10 pcs.), Ground black pepper, cloves and coriander peas. I tie the bag with thread.
I put the spice bag in the pot. I bring to a boil and cook the ketchup to the desired thickness. I usually cook for an hour and a half.
Then I add salt to taste, sugar and 0.5 tsp. red hot pepper. If you don't like spicy, you can add a little less pepper.
I definitely add cinnamon. It will give the ketchup a sweet-spicy flavor. At the end I pour in vinegar. I stir and boil for another 15 minutes.
Then I take it off the heat and pour it into sterilized jars. How I sterilize jars (five ways) I have already shown HERE.
Cover and seal. I turn the cans upside down and leave them under a warm blanket until they cool completely.
From this amount of ingredients, 5 half-liter jars are obtained.
INGREDIENTS:
• Tomatoes (ripe) - 3.3 kg
• Apples (sliced) - 1 kg
• Onions - 0.5 kg
• Sugar - 100 g
• Vinegar (table 9%) - 100 ml
• Allspice peas - 10 pcs.
• Black peppercorns - 0.5 tsp.
• Coriander peas - 0.5 tsp.
• Cloves - 0.5 tsp.
• Ground chili (red hot pepper) - 0.5 tsp.
• Ground cinnamon - 0.5 tsp.
• Salt (~ 1.5 tsp) - to taste