Ketchup with basil for the winter

About recipe

Incredibly tasty and fragrant ketchup with fresh basil and garlic. Such ketchup can be prepared for the winter. Sauce is ideal for many dishes, both for pasta and for meat, fish. Be sure to choose fleshy, tasty tomatoes! Green basil can be replaced with purple, but then the taste and color will be slightly different, green - tastier. If you come across watery tomatoes and the sauce does not become thicker, then you can thicken it with a small amount of starch diluted in water. For such an amount of tomatoes, you will need about 1-2 teaspoons of starch (preferably corn starch). Mix with 100 ml. of cold water, pour into the prepared sauce, bring to a boil and immediately remove from the stove. If you want a sharper aroma and taste, you can add your favorite spices, such as cloves, allspice, cilantro. Add the spices to a piece of gauze, tie and lower along with the basil and garlic, then remove the bag.

• Required ingredients::

• Tomatoes
  1 kilogram
• Green basil
  1 bunch (30 grams)
• Garlic
  5 cloves
• Fresh chili
  1/2 pcs
• Dried oregano
  1 teaspoon
• Salt
  1.5 teaspoons
• Sugar
  2 tablespoons
• Olive oil
  3 tablespoons Table vinegar 9%

• How to make

• 1. Choose ripe, fleshy tomatoes, wash and dry. Wash and basil.
• 2. Cut the tomatoes into slices, put in a chopper. You can also use a stationary blender or meat grinder.
• 3. Add salt, sugar, dried oregano to the tomatoes. Pour in olive oil.
• 4. Crush until smooth puree.
• 5. Pour the prepared tomato puree into a thick-bottomed saucepan. Put on the stove and bring to a boil. Cook on minimal heat and simmer for 15-20 minutes.
• 6. Peel the garlic and cut it into small pieces, finely chop the basil, cut the chili pepper into small circles.
• 7. Add prepared herbs, garlic and chilli peppers to the sauce. Boil for a couple of minutes so that their taste is absorbed into the sauce.
• 8. In order to absorb the aroma as much as possible, and the sauce saturates with it, crush the sauce along with the added herbs and garlic with a blender.
• 9. Then strain the sauce through a fine sieve.
• 10. Rub it with a spoon or spatula.
• 11. Pour the homogeneous tomato sauce back into the pan, bring to a boil and cook until the desired thickness. Everything here will depend on your tomatoes, if they are fleshy, then there is no need to cook the sauce. And if the tomatoes are watery, then we boil for about 10 minutes. Remove the finished sauce from the stove and pour vinegar, stir.
• 12. Hot immediately pour into prepared sterilized jars or bottles, tightly close with sterilized lids. Wrap in a warm blanket, leave to cool completely and transfer to the storage place. This may be a cellar or a pantry in the apartment.
• 13. Delicious!

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  Source: povar.ru
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