Salsa sauce for winter

How to prepare salsa sauce for the winter?

Peel onions, bell peppers, celery, rinse under running water and dry. Then chop all the vegetables finely.

Peel the garlic and pass it through the press.

Rinse the chili pepper, peel off the core and seeds and also chop. If salsa is needed sharper - pepper seeds can not be removed. It is worth using gloves in order to avoid burns!

Wash the tomatoes, dry them. Put the tomatoes in a large container and pour boiling water over them. Blanch the tomatoes for one minute. Then pull them out of the hot water, make a cross-shaped incision with a knife and remove the skin from each vegetable. Cut the blanched tomatoes into small cubes and place them in a large saucepan. Add chopped onion, pepper, celery, garlic and chili pepper to the same place. Mix everything well.

Put the pan on the fire and bring the contents to a boil. Then add tomato paste, pour vinegar into a saucepan, mix everything and cook over medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring the sauce regularly so that the products do not burn.

Add sugar and salt to the pan and cook the sauce for another 5 minutes, continuing to stir it with a spoon. Then reduce the heat to low and continue to cook the sauce until it begins to thicken. Then remove from the heat.

Rinse the jars well and sterilize them in the oven or with boiling water. Prepare the caps for rolling.

Pour the finished salsa into clean jars and cover with sterile lids.

Place the jars of sauce in a wide saucepan, on the bottom of which pre-lay a towel. Pour water at room temperature into a saucepan so that it reaches the tops of the rolled-up jars. Put the pot with the jars on the fire and bring to a boil. Then turn down the heat and continue sterilization for 10 minutes. Next, remove the pan from the stove and roll up the jars with lids. Allow the jars to cool slightly and place them on a hard surface until completely cooled.

Salsa sauce is ready!

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So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.

How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Remove, cool slightly and remove the skin.