Homemade ketchup made from fresh tomatoes, bell peppers and garlic can be cooked in small portions throughout the year or prepared for the winter in the vegetable ripening season, when prices do not bite or tomatoes and sweet peppers ripen in their own beds. Home-made ketchup from fresh tomatoes at home will be much tastier than the store, because you add seasonings and spices to your taste, cook from fresh natural products without preservatives and flavor enhancers.
Homemade ketchup made from fresh tomatoes and bell peppers, cooked according to this recipe, turns out to be spicy, thick, with a rich taste, and you don't want anything better for kebabs or meatballs.
- Cooking time: 40 minutes
- Quantity: 0.5 l
Ingredients for Homemade Ketchup from Fresh Tomatoes and Bell Peppers:
- 500 g of tomatoes;
- 500 g red bell pepper;
- 150 g onions;
- 3-4 cloves of garlic;
- 1 chili pod;
- 20 g of granulated sugar;
- 12 g of salt;
- 30 ml of olive oil;
- 5 g ground paprika.
A method of cooking homemade ketchup from fresh tomatoes and bell peppers.
Heat refined unscented olive oil or vegetable oil in a pan, fry finely chopped onions to a transparent state.
When the onions become transparent, add the large-cut tomatoes, cover the pan with the lid so that the tomatoes are cooked faster. To remove the peel from the tomatoes or not - decide for yourself, a powerful blender turns the ingredients into a smooth uniform mashed potatoes.
You can quickly remove the skin from tomatoes like this: put the vegetables in boiling water for half a minute, then immediately in ice water, make a cut with a sharp knife, and the skin can be easily removed.
To the softened tomatoes add a pod of fresh chili pepper. To the sauce did not turn out very hot, you can remove the seeds from the pod and cut off the partitions, because these parts contain a lot of capsaicin.
We clean the sweet Bulgarian pepper from seeds and partitions, cut the stem, cut the flesh into strips, add to the pan to the roasted tomatoes and onions, cook for 5-6 minutes.
We clean the garlic cloves from the husk, cut it finely. The amount of garlic - to your taste, I usually put 2-3 cloves, but maybe someone likes more.
We transfer stewed vegetables to the processor, add chopped garlic.
Turn on the processor, grind vegetables until a smooth mashed potatoes.
Transfer the mass to the saucepan, add granulated sugar, salt and ground paprika. On a small fire, bring to a boil, boil for 5-6 minutes.
To preserve homemade ketchup from fresh tomatoes and bell peppers for the winter, wash my jars in warm water with baking soda, rinse, heat for 10 minutes in an oven heated to 100 degrees Celsius. Covers boil. Put the hot sauce in warm sterilized jars so that the mass reaches the belt.
We sterilize half a liter jars for 10-12 minutes, roll them up, cool them at room temperature.
By the way, in this homemade ketchup of fresh tomatoes and bell peppers, you can reduce the number of calories. If the vegetables are ripe, tomatoes and peppers are sweet, then sugar is not needed. And if you do not fry the vegetables, and bake in the oven, slightly sprinkling the ingredients with vegetable oil or cooking them for a couple, then the calories will be even less.
Homemade ketchup made from fresh tomatoes and bell peppers is ready. Enjoy your meal!
