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| Tomatoes and Herbs from my backyard Canadian garden |
If the latest news from ketchup manufacturers has you confused about who uses Canadian grown tomatoes to create their ketchup and who bottles their ketchup in Canada, set all the nonsense aside and try making your own. It's embarrassingly simple to manufacture yourself. And if you use Canadian grown tomatoes and concoct your batch on Canadian soil you can proudly boast that it is created and bottled in Canada. Even better, try growing your own....tomatoes that is!
Charmingly Simple Canadian Ketchup
1 can (28 oz)
crushed Canadian Grown tomatoes
2 tbsp olive oil
1 onion, chopped
1 tbsp tomatoe
paste
2/3 cup brown sugar
½ cup cider vinegar
½ tsp sea salt
Place tomatoes in a
tall plastic tub or high-sided bowl. With a hand held blender, puree tomatoes
until smooth. In a heavy saucepan, heat oil over medium heat. Add onion and
cook, stirring until softened about eight minutes. Add pureed tomatoes, tomatoe
paste, brown sugar, vinegar and salt. Simmer, stirring occasionally until very
thick, about one hour. (Stir more frequently toward end of cooking so the
mixture doesn’t burn.) Puree mixture until smooth and allow to cool. Store in tightly sealed jars in the fridge.
Classy Cannuck-style
Ketchup
About 400g Plum
(Roma) Canadian Grown tomatoes, cut in half lengthwise, seeded and juice
removed
¼ large green
pepper
1 onion sliced
2 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp cider
vinegar
2 tsp brown sugar
2 tsp dried parsley
1 tsp dry mustard
½ tsp dried thyme
½ tsp sea salt
½ tsp fresh ground
pepper
1/8 tsp garlic
powder
1/8 tsp cinnamon
Pre heat oven to
475F Line a rimmed baking sheet with tin foil and place tomatoes, skin side up,
green pepper and onion. Brush very lightly with a little olive oil. Roast in
oven about 15 minutes until lightly browned. Let cool slightly. In a food
processor, pulse tomatoes, pepper and onion until just chunky. Place chunky vegetables
in a bowl. Stir in vinegar, brown sugar, parsley, mustard, thyme, salt pepper,
garlic powder and cinnamon. Let cool and store in tightly sealed jars in the
fridge.
Hot
Hot Hot Justin Trudeau Ketchup
Use 1/2 cup of any of the Ketchup recipes above or store-bought ketchup made from Canadian
grown tomatoes and produced in Canada.
1/3 cup freshly
squeezed orange juice
1 dried Habanero
chile
1 tbsp light
(fancy) molasses
½ tsp Worcestershire
Sauce
¼ tsp whole cloves
In a small saucepan
over medium heat, combine ketchup, orange juice, habanero, molasses,
Worcestershire sauce and cloves. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally
for about five minutes. Strain through a fine mesh sieve into a bowl and
discard habanero chile and cloves. Let cool and store in tightly sealed jars.
Guess
Who, No-Sugar Tonight Ketchup
3 cups tomatoe
juice
¼ cup cider vinegar
¼ sugar substitute
1 ½ tsp dried green
pepper flakes
½ tsp onion flakes
¼ tsp fresh ground
pepper
1/8 tsp dried
rosemary
1/8 tsp dried thyme
1/8 tsp dried basil
1/8 tsp dried parsley
In a large saucepan
over medium heat, combine tomatoe juice, vinegar, sugar substitute, green
pepper flakes, onion flakes, black pepper, rosemary, thyme, basil and parsley
and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, stirring occasionally until
thickened. About 1 hour. Let cool and store in tightly sealed jars in the
fridge.
