Classic American Ketchup

Everyone loves ketchup! This is a particularly addictive one though. We had this out at every meal time until it was finished and were dipping breadsticks in it in between as well.

Ingredients


500g Fresh Ripe Tomatoes


150g Onions


150g Cooking Apple


500ml Cider Vinegar


10g Mustard Seeds


1/2 tbsp Tomato Puree


1/2 tsp Ground Nutmeg


1/2 tsp Black Peppercorns


1/2 tsp Sea Salt


1/4 tsp Dried Chilli Flakes


1/4 stick Cinnamon


125g Brown Sugar

Roughly chop up the tomato and chop the onion. Core, peel and chop the apple, then throw it all in a saucepan with all the spices and half the vinegar. I loved taking this pic!

Bring that up to the boil, then reduce the heat and let it all simmer for about 2 hours until its all mushed down and reduced. Then strain it all through a sieve to remove the solids.

That leaves you with something that looks like tomato soup.

Add the sugar and remaining vinegar and again bring to the boil and reduce until its a nice sticky syrupy consistency.

This makes a pretty decent amount, probably between 350ml and half a litre. It's got a bit of heat from the mustard seeds and is pretty vinigary, I'd probably use it in place of BBQ sauce. Or you could do what I did and use it as an ingredient in other sauces.

I hope Henry John Heinz would approve.