Recipe: Sweet Pepper Relish

[Lateralus]

I found a load of small sweet peppers going cheap today, so made a relish with them. First time giving it a go, but it's come out damn tasty.

Ingredients
2 onions, finely diced
Sweet peppers, finely diced - enough to give you the same quantity of pepper as onion, or maybe a bit more - probably 2 full-sized peppers per onion
Tin of chopped tomatoes
100ml cider vinegar
100g castor sugar
Teaspoon salt

Method
Put the onion and peppers into a large saucepan, cook for 5 mins until softening.
Add everything else, and simmer until it's reduced into a reasonably thick consistency.
Leave to cool, stick in a jar in the fridge.

This came out very tasty, but quite sweet. People with less of a sweet tooth than me might prefer less sugar, and maybe wine vinegar instead of cider. Also, the very fine dicing takes longer, but as the onion and pepper don't shrink down, you don't want them any bigger than you'd want to be spreading on your burger.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

I've kinda made this.

Used bog standard bell peppers, one red, one yellow.

Eyeballed the cider vinegar (I reckon 50-60ml) and sugar (I went for half caster, half light brown) maybe 1.5 tablespoons of each, which is plenty sweet enough for me.

Also stuck a whole chipotle in, just to give it some subtle smoky heat.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

After I stuck it in the jar, my brain told me some coriander might be nice in there too.

Also, mine looks like this.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kitteny_berk/4934712775/" title="IMG_6658 by Kitteny Berk, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4115/493 ... 383507.jpg" width="333" height="500" alt="IMG_6658"></a>

Edit: Tested using my standard burger loadout (Lots of good mayo, nice sweet tomato and some sriracha) Seemed pretty good, adds the sweetness/acidity you'd get from ketchup, but not so much of the depth/richness, which is a shame.

Would benefit greatly from some plastic cheese for the relish to cut though.

[Dr. kitteny berk]

Oh, and a TJ for someone better than me to work out:

There's something about Ketchup which (to my face at least) makes it work really well on burgers, Logically it's too sweet and too acidic, but then the same holds true for this relish.

So, why the fuck is it ketchup is really good on burgers? is it a texture thing? or has the CIA been injecting binary drugs into Burgers and Ketchup, so when you combine the two you have a tiny foodgasm?

[FatherJack]

It works well on an English breakfast and on hot dogs with mustard too, but I can't think of anything else I use it on.

[Lateralus]

I always choose BBQ sauce or relish over ketchup, especially on burgers.