The most popular sauces used in everyday life have been mayonnaise and ketchup for several decades. The latter became famous for America, which in 1801 published a recipe for its preparation in the way everyone now knows.
However, the fact that ketchup originally originated in China and was not prepared at all from tomatoes, as they simply did not grow there, but from cheap wine, garlic, mushrooms, pickled fish and nuts, which were mixed in a single mass and served, was long forgotten. to meat or fish dishes. But now this sauce according to the American recipe with the addition of new original ingredients is prepared by many companies, and the housewives are inventing a more natural composition. So there was ketchup at home with apples, olives, chopped herbs, mushrooms or red currants, for lovers of spicy aroma - with cinnamon, cloves or paprika, and for the sharpness and richness of taste - burning red pepper and garlic. It is prepared for the winter or served freshly prepared to the table. In any case, this famous sauce decorates any dish and enhances its taste.
Ingredients
Not the easiest, but one of the most tender is obtained cooked ketchup at home with apples. They give it a touch of sourness and sweetness, but lovers of pungency can always add grated onions, cloves and other spices to the recipe. In any case, medium-sized tomatoes, fleshy and intact, are taken as the basis. They will need about 2 kilograms. Also in the
recipe for homemade ketchup with apples, and there will be enough of them in the amount of 3-4 non-acidic fruits, you will need 2-3 bell peppers, 1 hot pod, 3 cloves of garlic, salt and sugar. The duration of preparation according to this recipe will be about 2 hours, but the result will be worth it. Such
homemade ketchup with apples can be poured into sterile jars or bottles and rolled up tightly, and then this seasoning will delight you all winter when served with any meat or fish dish, as well as scrambled eggs or cold snacks.
Cooking
So, for starters, you should cut the tomatoes into thin slices, put in a saucepan and cook for about 40 minutes on medium heat without a lid. At the same time, to make ketchup at home with apples sweet, bake in the oven at a temperature of 150-180 degrees the bell pepper (whole) until soft, it will take about 20-25 minutes. Then we cool it, cut the stem, and cut the remaining pulp into slices and add to the tomatoes. We clear the apples from the peel and seeds, cut them into small cubes or rub them in advance and pour them into the pan. Then squeeze out the same garlic and mix everything thoroughly.
But the pod of hot pepper, so that our ketchup at home with apples becomes piquant, but not too sharp, we lower it whole, after washing it first. Cook for another 20 minutes with the lid open. Now the little things remain. We take out the pepper pod, turn off the fire and grind the remaining mass through a metal sieve. Then again we pour it into the pan and put on a slow fire until the smooth mashed potatoes are smooth. At the end, add salt (1 tablespoon), sugar (3 tablespoons) and, if necessary, vinegar. According to this recipe, about 1-1.5 l of ketchup is obtained, which can be stored for the whole winter by rolling up in sterile jars.