Make Your Own Tomato Ketchup
Friday, March 26th, 2010
Ingredients
2 kg of very ripe tomatoes, 1 large onion, 6 cloves, 4 allspice berries, 6 peppercones, 1 fresh rosemary sprig,25 grams of ginger (sliced), 1 celery heart, 30 ml brown sugar, 65 ml raspberry vinegar, 3 cloves peeled garlic, 1 tsp salt
Method
Soak tomatoes in boiling water for 1 minute, drain and peel tomatoes hten set aside in a large pan. Peel the onion and stud it with cloves.
Put onion, allspice, peppercone, rosemary and ginger into double layer of muslin and tie it up. Add it into the pan together with sugar, vinegar, garlic and salt.
Bring mixture to a boil with occasional stiring, reduce to low heat and simmer for another 2 hours, stir regularly until mixture reduce by half.
Blend the mixture with a food processor and return to pan. Bring to a boil and off the heat.
Leave it to cool completely and bottle it in clean sterillized jars and store in refrigerator.
Use within 2 weeks.
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