If you are a good housewife, then, of course, you will not regret your time and prepare homemade ketchup with apples for the winter. It has a pleasant sweet and sour taste. It is worth noting that there are no harmful substances in it, since you will only use natural ingredients. Absolutely everyone will like homemade ketchup with blocks. Once you try it, you will never forget this pleasant taste. It can also be prepared in the cold winter, and instead of tomatoes, use their juice. Let's look at some recipes with photos.
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Making homemade ketchup
Now let's take a closer look at how to prepare this wonderful ketchup for the winter from apples.
Necessary:
- a little tomato - three kilos.
- Half a kilo of apples.
- A little onion, about 250 grams.
- Fifty grams of apple vinegar.
- One and a half tbsp. l. salt.
- One and a half cups of regular sugar.
- 1/3 teaspoon black, and most importantly ground pepper.
- Red hot pepper pod.
How to cook step by step:
- Wash the tomatoes and apples and be sure to peel the onions. Please note that if you use sweet apples, tomato ketchup will taste similar to Krasnodar sauce, and if sour, it will taste like Heinz. To get the Baltimore Admiral, just throw in some garlic.
- Chop the apple pulp, tomatoes and onions into pieces as large as possible. Then all this needs to be put into a pan.
- Next, you should simmer the vegetables until our onions become a little softer. Don't forget to stir from time to time.
- Then, using a blender, you need to grind it all and put it back into the pan.
- Then you need to add black and red pepper, salt, and sugar into the resulting mass. Then put on low heat and simmer until it thickens. Again, remember to stir.
- When about 10-15 minutes remain until they are completely ready, you need to remove the hot pepper and pour in apple cider vinegar.
- After this, all this needs to be scattered into containers and rolled up. Turn them upside down, cover with a blanket and wait to cool.
Classic recipe
Apples contain a very useful substance in our case - pectin. It is a natural thickener, so this tomato ketchup is quite easy to prepare.
Necessary:
- Four kilos of tomatoes;
- Apples and onions - half a kilo each.
- A little sugar - about two hundred and fifty grams.
- A little salt - seventy grams.
- A little bit of cinnamon, as well as ground red pepper - literally half a teaspoon.
- Several cloves - about four pieces.
- A little six percent apple vinegar - two hundred grams.
Let’s start preparing ketchup with apples at home for the winter:
- First, let's start preparing vegetable crops. Wash our fresh tomatoes and divide them into 4-6 parts. The onion should be thoroughly peeled and literally divided into several parts (2). As for apples, you need to divide them with a knife into several parts, about 4, and cut out the core. To preserve the vitamins, you don’t have to cut off the skin.
- All this needs to be ground using a meat grinder.
- After this, throw it all into a saucepan and simmer over low heat for about two hours.
- To remove the peels from apples and tomatoes, you need to pass them through a sieve.
- Place all this on a low heat on the stove, add a little salt, as well as sugar and other spices, but do not pour vinegar.
- Then you need to cook the ketchup for about half an hour, stirring it regularly.
- When there are about five minutes left of cooking, pour in a little vinegar.
- Then all this needs to be scattered into pre-prepared glass containers.
- Roll them up and move them to be stored in a cool place - a basement or cellar.
If anything, you can replace tomatoes with 2.5 liters of juice. Then you definitely need to put cinnamon and cloves in the sauce. These key ingredients will make it a true tomato ketchup.
Homemade ketchup with tomatoes and peppers
What do you need:
- Five kilos of tomatoes.
- A little onion - half a kilo.
- A little pepper, always sweet (Bulgarian) - three hundred grams.
- Two pieces of hot, hot red pepper.
- A little nine percent vinegar - one hundred grams.
- A glass of sugar.
- A little salt - two tablespoons.
Let's start preparing tomato-apple ketchup:
- Take tomatoes and, of course, peppers, wash them as best as possible. The onions and peppers need to be peeled and the peppers removed from the seeds.
- We take a small container, a bowl, for example, and fill it with cold water.
- Next, in another pan you need to boil water, where you will need to blanch the tomatoes.
- When they reach the point where the skin begins to peel off easily, you need to take them out and throw them into an already prepared container with cold water.
- Next, you will have to remove the skin from the tomatoes and divide them into four parts.
- Then we divide the pepper into four parts, and divide our onion into eight parts.
- Now vegetables such as chili peppers, tomatoes and, of course, onions must be run through a meat grinder or blender.
- Stir the resulting mass and put it on the fire, on the stove.
- Now you can add a little salt and sugar and cook lightly over relatively low heat (medium) until foam begins to appear, which needs to be skimmed off.
- Cook for about thirty minutes, stirring regularly.
- Make sure the liquid is thick.
- After half an hour, pour in a little vinegar, stir well, and let it cook for about another ten minutes.
- Pour tomato ketchup into pre-sterilized jars and roll them up.
- Turn them upside down and cover with a blanket until cool.
The result will be excellent, finger-licking ketchup for the winter.
Homemade ketchup with tomatoes, apples and spices
Ingredients:
- Four kilos of tomatoes.
- Half a kilo of Antonovka apples.
- A little onion - 500 grams.
- Nine percent vinegar - about two hundred grams.
- Three carnations.
- Literally 1⁄2 teaspoon of cinnamon.
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground red pepper.
- A little salt - two tablespoons.
- A little sugar - about 200 grams.
Preparation:
- Boil the tomatoes in boiling water for about five minutes. Remove the skin from them and cut them into small pieces.
- The onion needs to be peeled. Then remove the skin from the apples, then remove the core and cut them into four parts.
- Using a meat grinder or blender, you need to pass vegetables through them.
- Throw the resulting mixture into a large container and let it simmer over low heat for about two to two and a half hours.
- From time to time you need to stir the mass a little and add cinnamon, pepper, and cloves.
- When about half an hour remains until ready, add the specified amount of vinegar and be sure to stir.
- Now, as usual, you need to scatter tomato ketchup for the winter into previously prepared jars, roll up their lids and cover with a warm blanket until they have cooled completely.
Homemade ketchup with apples and apricots
Necessary:
- Two kilos of tomatoes.
- Half a kilo of apricots.
- A few apples - one kilogram, it is advisable to choose from sour varieties.
- Onions, about half a kilo.
- A little vinegar - two glasses.
- Sugar is about seven hundred grams.
- Two tbsp. l. salt.
- Large head of garlic.
Cooking:
- Tomatoes need to be washed, skinned and doused with boiling water.
- Wash and core the apples, be sure to trim the roots.
- Now take the apricots, wash them and remove the pits.
- Now you need to thoroughly peel the garlic and pass it through a press.
- Next, peel the onion and chop into small pieces.
- All the necessary vegetables and fruits will have to be chopped using a blender or meat grinder, then boiled for two hours over low heat, making sure to add salt and sugar.
- When forty minutes remain until ready, you need to add vinegar and stir.
- Then, as usual, scatter into jars and roll up.
