Homemade Banana Ketchup
Banana ketchup sounds different, but it's a great condiment with pork or chicken. There is a little tomato in it, but the banana flavor dominates.
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- Serves: 56 persons
Ingredients
- 4large bananas (very ripe, peeled, and sliced)
- 2large garlic cloves (quartered)
- 1 ⅓cups cider vinegar (divided)
- ½cup golden raisins
- ⅓cup sweet onions (chopped)
- ⅓cup tomato paste
- 3to 4 cups water
- ½cup dark brown sugar (packed)
- 1 ½teaspoons salt
- ½teaspoon chipotle chile pepper (or to taste)
- ¼cup light corn syrup
- 2teaspoons ground allspice
- 1teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½teaspoon ground nutmeg
- ¼teaspoon ground cloves
- 2tablespoons dark rum
Instructions
Step 1
Gather the ingredients.Step 2
Place the bananas, garlic, 2/3 cup of the vinegar, raisins, onions, and tomato paste in the bowl of a food processor fitted with a metal blade.Step 3
Process until it is smooth and pour it into a large, heavy saucepan.Step 4
To the banana mixture in the saucepan, add the remaining 2/3 cup vinegar, 3 cups of water, brown sugar, salt , and ground chipotle chile pepper. Stir to combine.Step 5
Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat, stirring often. Reduce the heat to low and cook uncovered, stirring the ketchup occasionally, for 1 hour and 15 minutes.Step 6
If the ketchup gets too thick and begins to stick to the pot, add some of the remaining water (up to 1 cup).Step 7
Add the corn syrup, allspice, cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring often, for another 15 minutes or until it is thick enough to coat a metal spoon.Step 8
Stir in the rum and remove the pan from heat. Let it cool for 10 minutes.Step 9
Push the ketchup through a fine strainer, mashing the solids with the back of a spoon.Step 10
Let it cool to room temperature.Step 11
Pour the banana ketchup into glass bottles or jars, cover, and refrigerate.