Homemade Tomato Ketchup

One Saturday morning Ben and I were watching Jamie Oliver on Food Network and we got really excited when he started to make homemade tomato ketchup. Now this is no ordinary ketchup, it has a few surprise ingredients such has chili peppers and hot sauce! Now you can make it as hot or mild as you want it but we were excited about having hot and spicy ketchup:)

The recipe was pretty easy. First you combine all the ingredients in a sauce pan and let the tomatoes break down
*Note: the recipe says to wait and put in the sugar and vinegar into the pan after pushing the tomatoes through a sieve. However, when watching the show Jamie Oliver put the sugar and vinegar into the pan after the tomatoes reduced by half. This seemed to be the trick to get smooth ketchup and not chunky ketchup:)

Now once the tomato mixture has reduced by half place the mixture into a blender in batches. Remember that the sauce is HOT so be sure to keep the plastic pour top off of the blender to let the heat out when blending. Otherwise you may burn yourself and/or have tomato sauce all over your kitchen.

After the tomato mixture is blended and pushed through a sieve, place your ketchup in sterilized jars and let cool. You will here the jars "pop" once the ketchup has cooled and the jars have sealed.
Once done this recipe made ~4cups of ketchup and it was super yummy! We hope you all try this b/c we had a GREAT time making our own ketchup.

Note: You can also use yellow and green tomatoes!