Piercing tangy Hawthorn Ketchup with warming cloves, cinnamon, allspice, coriander and a flaming chipotle kick.
Get your clapper all sharp and swathed in something rich.
This dish will overthrow any belief that vegan food can’t be modest and unpretentious.
Make this:
- When you’ve freshly foraged a bagful of hawthorn in the countryside or park walk
- When you’re looking for a richer flavour than your bog-standard tomato ketchup. It’s time to take elevate your gastronomic skills
- When your potato chips are screeching at you. You need a complementary condiment to jizz them up
Hawthorn Ketchup was inspired when foraging for burgundy ripe hawthorn berries on a walk at my dad’s local nature reserve. They were literally dropping and ready to fall off the shrub.
This Ketchup is a vegan condiment and paleo.
What equipment to use
For this recipe, I suggest:
Stove
Cheese nylon cloth or muslin bag
What to do next
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Ingredients
- 1kg hawthorn berries
- 400ml filtered water
- Pickling spices
- ½ inch cinnamon stick
- 6 cloves of India
- 2 Allspice
- 1tsp coriander seeds
- 300ml vinegar
- 1 chipotle dried chili, deseeded
- 200g unrefined cane sugar
Instructions
- Deseed chili by cutting lengthwise, but not through the stem.
- Wash the hawthorn berries and place into a large saucepan with the water. Simmer for about 30 minutes. Use a masher to mash now and again to form into a puree.
- Allow to cool and sieve through a cheese nylon cloth or muslin bag. Discard the pulp.
- Return the hawthorn puree to the saucepan.
- Grind the spices in a grinder and add with the vinegar, sugar and chipotle to the puree.
- Simmer the puree until it forms into a relatively thick sauce – this will take about 30 to 45 minutes. Remove and discard the chipotle and place the ketchup into hot sterilised jars. Allow to cool for about 10 minutes and seal.
