Red hot pepper and tomato sauce - a delicious and simple recipe for winter appetizer.

Red hot pepper and tomato sauce
Categories: Pickled peppers

In our family, baked hot peppers canned in spicy tomato sauce are called Appetitka. It comes, as you probably guess, from the word “appetite”. The implication is that such a spicy dish should be appetizing. The main components here are hot pepper and tomato juice.

There is an opinion that hot peppers are harmful to the stomach, but this is not true at all. Hot peppers are an amazing vegetable. It helps digestion, improves immunity, helps lower blood pressure, and helps fight infectious diseases. Cancer is very rare in people who consume hot peppers.

To prepare an appetizer for the winter, you need 3 kg of hot peppers, 5 kg of tomatoes, 200 g of salt, 250 g of sugar, 500 ml of vegetable oil. From this amount of products you should get 6 pieces of 1 liter cans.

How to make hot sauce from tomatoes with whole peppercorns.

Hot pepper

Let's start with the fact that to prepare this simple recipe you will need hot red fleshy pepper. Then the preparation will not be very spicy and tasty.

Wash the pepper, cut off the tails, bake it in the oven, but not until soft, but so that it remains hard.

Separately, we will prepare tomato juice from which we will make spicy tomato sauce.

From well-ripened tomatoes, remove the skin, cut out places near the stalk, cut into pieces and cook for 7-10 minutes.When it cools down a little, grind it through a sieve.

Boil the tomato juice for 20 minutes, add vegetable oil, salt, sugar, lower the baked pepper, and cook for another 5-6 minutes. Stir carefully so that the peppercorns do not disintegrate.

Pour the finished sauce into clean 800 ml or 1 liter jars, or maybe 0.5 liters, roll it up, turn it over, wrap it warm and keep it like that until it cools.

Hot sauce Appetizer with hot peppers can be stored in the pantry for a long time. In winter, feel free to add it to main courses, spread it on a sandwich, or use it for pizza.


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