Sour-Sweet Cherry-Lemon-Chili Sauce

Sour-sweet cherry and lemon sauce and chili - spicy and savory kebab sauce. This sweet and sour seasoning for meat is prepared quite quickly and simply, can be stored in the refrigerator for several days. I have not bought ready-made sauces in the store for a long time, although sometimes I am tempted by ketchup or mayonnaise. Here, as with boiled sausage, how much do not try, and with the food industry on a national scale is difficult, and they have some products still out of competition.

However, homemade sauce cooked for meat or poultry, with pieces of vegetables, you definitely will not find in the grocery store. If you want to surprise guests or please your loved ones with something unusual, then try making a sauce according to this recipe.

Probably, this sauce can be saved for the winter, but I have not tried it yet. For safety, you will have to add more salt and sterilize at least 20 minutes. Since cooking does not require much hassle, and the products for this recipe are always freely available, it is easier to cook a small jar of fresh sauce than to fiddle with preservation.

Cooking time: 30 minutes
Quantity: 0, 5 l

Ingredients for sweet-sour cherry-lemon sauce and chili:

350 g of cherry tomatoes;
350 g red tomatoes;
1 lemon;
2 chili peppers;
1 onion;
4 cloves of garlic;
100 grams of granulated sugar;
15 ml of extra virgin olive oil;
salt, ground red pepper.

Method of making sweet-sour cherry sauce with lemon and chili.

To prepare a sweet and sour cherry and lemon sauce, chili will need a small deep saucepan with a thick bottom. Pour oil into a saucepan, throw in finely chopped onions and pour in 30 ml of water. The water will gradually evaporate, and will not allow the onions to burn - it will remain transparent and soft. It is this onion should be in the sauce.

Ripe red tomatoes put in boiling water for a minute, then sharply cooled with cold water. Cut the stalk, remove the skin. We cut tomatoes into cubes, add to onions. Stew for 10 minutes.

While stewing tomatoes and onions, we will prepare the remaining ingredients - cutting the cherry in half. There is a way to easily cut a large amount of cherry at once. Put the tomatoes on a wide flat plate, slightly above the same plate or cover. Sharpened with a wide knife hold in the middle - and all the cherries are cut!

With a lemon, remove a thin layer of zest - cut it into strips. Clean the white peel, remove the partitions. Chop chop finely. Before processing, I advise you to pour a lemon with boiling water and roll around the table - the white skin will more easily separate from the pulp. A zest, by the way, can be rubbed on a fine grater, if you are too lazy to mess around with a knife.

Peeled garlic cloves are pressed with a knife. The pods of red chilli peels clean from the seeds, remove the membrane. Cut the chili into small cubes.