Spiced Tomato Ketchup Food

SPICED TOMATO KETCHUP

Steps:

• Heat olive oil over low heat in a heavy-bottom saucepan. Add ginger and garlic cloves and cook, stirring, until fragrant but not browned, about 1 minute. Add vinegar, turn up the heat and reduce volume by half, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add sugar and stir until it has dissolved in the vinegar. Add tomatoes and spices (but not salt), bring to a simmer, reduce heat to very low, cover partly and simmer slowly until mix has reduced to a thick purée and there is little liquid in the pan, about 1 hour 45 minutes. Uncover and continue to simmer until all the liquid has cooked off, about 15 minutes.
• Season to taste with salt and pepper and stir in honey. Continue to simmer, stirring, until mix is shiny, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool. Taste and adjust salt. Transfer to a jar and refrigerate if not using right away. Serve at room temperature as an accompaniment to fish, chicken, meat or vegetables; spread it on bread; or use as a sandwich condiment.
• Optional step: Before or after the mix cools, put through the fine blade of a food mill.

HOMEMADE KETCHUP

Steps:

• Put the onions and celery into a food processor and whizz until finely chopped. Heat the oil in a very large saucepan, add the onions and celery, cover, then soften over a low heat for 5 mins. Add the garlic, cook 5 mins more, then tip in the spices and cook for 1 min.
• Now stir in all remaining ingredients and bring to the boil. Keep on a bubbling simmer, uncovered, for 1 hr until the tomatoes are squashy and the liquid has reduced by several inches. Discard the cinnamon stick.
• Whizz the mix with a stick blender until smooth, then sieve into a bowl. The ketchup will thicken a little when it cools, but if yours seems very runny (this will depend on the juiciness of your tomatoes), put it back on the heat and cook a little longer, stirring often, until reduced. Keep the ketchup in an airtight container in the fridge for up to 3 months, or freeze in batches. If you like, keep in sterilised bottles or jars for up to 6 months - see tip, below.

AUTUMN TOMATO CHUTNEY

Steps:

• Put all the ingredients into a large pan and bring to the boil over a medium heat. Stir occasionally until the sugar has dissolved. Boil the mixture, uncovered, for about 45-50 mins until the fruit is tender and thickened. Cool, then transfer the mixture to a sterilised jar and seal.

BOILED SPICED SHRIMP WITH WHOLE TOMATO KETCHUP

Steps:

• Heat a pot of water to a boil. Peel and devein the shrimp. Put the shells into another pot along with the carrot, celery, onion, sherry and rice vinegars, 1 cup water and 1 tablespoon salt. Bring to a boil, turn down the heat and simmer for 30 minutes.
• While the stock is cooking, mix the shrimp with the shrimp boil spice and refrigerate. Make an ice bath by placing ice cubes and cold water in a bowl. Once the pot of water is boiling, blanch the tomatoes for 30 seconds, remove with a slotted spoon and quickly cool in the ice bath. Work in a few batches so you don't overcook the tomatoes. Peel the tomatoes and set aside.
• Put 1 cup water, the sugars, pinch of cloves and 2 tablespoons salt in a saucepot and bring to a boil. Add the tomatoes and cook for 3 minutes. Set aside.
• Strain the shrimp stock and keep warm. Remove the shrimp from the refrigerator. Place a saute pan on high heat, add the oil, then the shrimp and cook for 1 minute. Add the stock and cook until the shrimp turn pink, about 3 minutes. Serve the shrimp with the ketchup on the side.

TOMATO KETCHUP

Steps:

• Place onion slices on grill. Grill until the slices are blackened on both sides -- about 15 minutes per side.
• In small black skillet toast the coriander seeds, cumin seeds, and mustard seeds about 5 minutes, and then grind them in a mortar and pestle or a spice grinder.
• In saucepan combine the blackened onions, the toasted spices, red wine vinegar, brown sugar, garlic, capers, and hot sauce.
• Add the paprika, cinnamon, allspice, ginger, oregano, black pepper, cardamom, and salt to taste. Then add the whole tomatoes and tomato paste. Simmer this mixture for 3 hours, stirring every 15 minutes to break up the tomatoes and to prevent sticking. Puree some of the mixture in a blender and return to the pot. If the pureed ketchup seems too thin, continue cooking it until it's reduced to a consistency you like.

HOMEMADE TOMATO KETCHUP

Steps:

• Mix the first 4 ingredients in a saucepan.
• Cover and bring to boil.
• Remove from heat and let stand.
• Wash, core, and quarter tomatoes.
• Drain in a colander, discarding liquid.
• Place tomatoes in a large pot.
• Add onion and cayenne.
• Bring to boiling.
• Cook for 15 minutes, stirring often.
• Put mixture through a food mill; discard seeds and skins.
• Add sugar to the tomato juice.
• Bring to boil and simmer for 1 1/2 to 2 hours or until reduced by half (measure depth with a ruler from start to finish).
• Strain vinegar mixture into tomatoes, discarding spices.
• Add salt.
• Simmer for about 30 minutes or until it reaches desired consistency, stirring often.
• Water Bath Canning-------------.
• Prepare ketchup as above.
• Pour hot ketchup into hot, clean pint jars, leaving a 1/2 inch head space.
• Wipe jar rims clean.
• Adjust lids.
• Process in boiling water bath for 10 minutes (start timing when water boils).