Bloody Mary Tomato Relish

Raw ingredients
Finely chop all the ingredients
Simmer for 90 minutes
Makes about 4 jars

Ingredients

2 red peppers, deseeded and finely chopped
3 sticks of celery, finely chopped
4 small onions, finely chopped
A couple of red chillies, deseeded and finely chopped
1kg of tomatoes, very ripe if possible, chopped
2tbsp Worcestershire sauce
300ml red wine vinegar
300g Demerara sugar
1 bay leaf
4tbsp vodka (optional)

A friend of ours buys magazines regularly and drops them in to us when she's finished with them. I always like to scour them for recipes to try. The description of this one said "Great on bacon butties or to add to tomato pasta sauces". Now pasta and bacon butties are very popular here, so I thought I'd give it a go. I also had a couple of peppers and some celery lurking in the fridge, so it used them up too.

It would be a good recipe for tomato glut time, although I used horrible supermarket tomatoes (pale and tasteless) and it improved them enormously.

Prep: 10 mins Cook: 1Â½ hrs Serves: 4 jars

Instructions

If you can’t be bothered to finely chop the vegetables, you can use a food processor.
Put all the ingredients, except the vodka, in a large pan or preserving pan. On a gentle heat, stir to dissolve the sugar then bring the mixture to a simmer.
Cook for an hour – 1½ hours, stirring occasionally, until a spoon dragged through the mix leaves a trail without liquid filling in the gap. Remove the bay leaf.
Mix in the vodka if using, and spoon into sterilised jars.

Really nice on a cheese sandwich, with pasta or burgers.

Comments

Olly

Tuesday 17 September, 2013 at 10:54pm

Hi Rosemary - the tomato relish looks awesome. We have a load of tomatoes from the polytunnel this year and made some passata the other day. Have a look at the recipe and pics on

http://thegardeneur.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Food

I think we may have to give the relish a go.

Rosemary

Wednesday 18 September, 2013 at 9:36am

The relish is lovely - I like it on crackers :-)

cloddopper

Sunday 22 September, 2013 at 11:06pm

Any idea if you can hot water bath & bottle this tom relish in kilner jars so that there will still be some around come Christmas??

Jenni Chapple

Saturday 28 November, 2020 at 6:33am

How long can you keep the relish for? I was wanting to make a few jars for gifts

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