Again the riddle was too easy.

The first answer was right. Okay Sus guessed BBQ-Sauce. I consider ketchup as BBQ-sauce, too. Congrats to Sus from Corumblog.

Foodies riddle #4 will be online in 2 weeks on Monday, June 9. Stay tuned! If you have any suggestion for a future riddle just drop me a line: kochtopf(at)gmail(dot)com.

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For this ketchup I used preserved tomatoes and dried chili, both homemade. I can't wait to harvest fresh tomatoes, then I will make the ketchup again with fresh ones. The recipe comes from Alfons Schuhbeck a German chef, who has also his own cooking show.

Coincidentally Stiftung Warentest published yesterday the result of a test of ketchups. They tested 23 ketchups among them name- and no-name-brand products. A no-name ketchup is the winner. ;-)

Did you know that one German statistically eats 1 liter of ketchup a year, and that Heinz ketchup contains 25,5 gram sugar per 100 g ketchup. In fact, I compared my ketchup with Heinz, and mine was less sweet in taste and much more hot!

Homemade Hot!!! Ketchup
makes 2 jars

1 onion, finely chopped
750 g tomtoes, peeled and cut into chunks
25 g tomato purée
20 g brown sugar
2 cm cinnamon
1 ts yellow mustardseed
2 dried chillies, crumbled
70 g icing sugar
1 dl white vine vinegar
2 ts salt
pepper

Add onion, tomatoes, purée, brown sugar, cinnamon, mustardseeds and chilis in a pan and bring to a boil reduce heat and let simmer for 20-30 minutes.

In the meantime, sieve icing sugar in a pan and melt on medium heat until caramelized. Remove from heat and add vinegar, move to the heat again and let reduce to half.

Mix ketchup with a blender add "vinegar reduction", salt and pepper if necessary add some vinegar. Pour into hot sterilized jars or bottles.

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