Friday, January 26, 2007

Tomato/chilli relish


  • 2 tins of crushed tomatoes
    2 large onions chopped finely
    200 gms brown sugar (10 points)
    1 dessertspoon of salt (I don't add this or sometimes just add half)
    1 dessertspoon of curry powder
    1 dessertspoon of mustard powder
    1/4 cup plain flour (1.5 points)
    1 1/2 cups of brown vinegar
    1 tspn chilli powder
    4 small chillies chopped finely with seeds left in
  • Put the sugar, salt, one cup of vinegar and the tomatoes into a large saucepan and boil for 5 minutes. Mix the dry ingredients together with the rest of the vinegar.
  • Take the tomato mixture off the heat and stir in the mixed dry ingredients.
  • Stir well.
    Place back on the heat and cook for another 10 minutes.
  • Remove from heat.
  • Add the vinegar, onion, chopped chilli mixture.
    Pour into jars and keep in the fridge.
Amended: I put the onion and chillies in with the tomato and sugar at the beginning of the process. This makes the vegetables a bit softer and not quite so strong flavoured. I actually did this by mistake once, but it turned out better!

Makes 4 to 5 jars.

Points - 11.5 for the whole mixture. If you make 4 jars that is 3 points per jar. If you make 5 jars it's 2.5 points per jar. Personally I would probably not worry about adding points if I used this on a sandwich or a piece of steak, chicken etc. It's pretty spicey so you wouldn't eat much of it and it might work out at 0.01 of a point or something per teaspoon?

Good luck, if you don't like spicey, either take the seeds out of the chillies or don't use as many. All chillies are different though so it's kind of pot luck.

Great on sandwiches, steaks, grilled chicken or fish. Actually just good with some cheese and crackers and a cold glass of chardonnay!

Enjoy.

3 comments:

Sarah said...

This sounds delish! I love tomatoes and chilli together.

"the captain" said...

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"The Captain" said...

just for the record I didn't post that idiotic comment.
Jeff