Blackberry Ketchup Recipe

Blackberries are coming to the end for this year, but you might still be able to pick a kilo for this delicious recipe, Blackberry Ketchup. It is delicious with all sorts of savoury foods, use it instead or tomato ketchup. I love it with organic pork sausages that I buy at the market. It is easy to make too…

Ingredients:

• 1 Kg of Blackberries
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 tbsp salt
• 1 tsp of dried chillies
• 1 tbsp of yellow mustard seeds
• 1 tbsp of cumin seeds
• 200ml vinegar
• 250g of light brown sugar

Method:

1. Put blackberries in a large saucepan with about 200 ml of water and start to cook.
2. Press the garlic cloves into the berries and add all the other ingredients
3. Bring to the boil and then reduce heat to simmer and continue cooking for about 25 minutes until the fruit is soft.
4. Remove from the heat and allow to cool a little
5. Blend with the hand blender.
6. Press through a sieve to remove seeds
7. Bottle in sterilized jars.