How to cook uncle bens
Products
For 3 liters of sauce
Tomatoes – 2.5 kilograms
Green bell peppers – 6 pieces
Onions – 2 heads
Sugar – 1 cup
Salt – 1 heaping tablespoon
Vegetable oil – 4 tablespoons
Vinegar 70% – 1 teaspoon or half a glass 9%
Ginger – a small piece
Cloves – several inflorescences
Cinnamon – 1 stick
Black peppercorns – 1 teaspoon
Hot pepper – half a pod
Recipe for Ankle Bens
1. Wash the tomatoes, pour over with plenty of boiling water, peel and pass through a meat grinder.
2. Pour tomato juice into a large saucepan, put on a quiet fire and cook, cook for 20 minutes, then salt.
3. Peel and chop onions, put in a saucepan and cook for 10 minutes.
4. Peel the bell pepper from the stalk and seed box, put in a saucepan and cook for 10 minutes.
5. Black and hot peppers, cloves, cinnamon stick and ginger, put in a linen bag or gauze, and lower into the Unkle bins.
6. Boil everything together for another 20-30 minutes until the desired consistency, pour in the vinegar and mix Uncle Bens.
7. Remove the spice bag.
8. Pour Ankle Bence into hot sterilized jars, cool and store.
Tasty Facts
— For Ankle bance, it is recommended to use green bell pepper, because. it will not fully boil and the texture of the uncle beans will be pleasantly crispy.
– If there are no tomatoes, you can replace them with tomato juice from the store mixed with tomato paste. Keep in mind that uncle bens from the store has a sweetish aftertaste, so it is better to take sweet varieties for the sauce, or add sugar to the sauce.
– To taste, when cooking Ankle bens, you can add garlic and carrots.
– Due to the fact that Ankle Bens does not use oil at all, the sauce is considered low-calorie – only 30 kcal / 100 grams.
— Corn starch is used as a thickener in the original recipe of Ankle Bence. If you want to make Ankle bance thicker, it is recommended to use it, or replace it with potato starch. The amount of starch depends on the desired density and can be from 1 to 5 tablespoons.