Name: Roast Chilli Ketchup
Prep time: 5 min
Ingredients: 2 fresno or jalapeno chillis; 1 cup/270g tomato ketchup

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This fabulous spicy Roast Chilli Ketchup is our new favourite condiment. Incredibly quick and easy to make, using only roast, charred chilli and ketchup, you can serve it with a variety of different meals from breakfast through to dinner. Spicy, sweet and smokey – I like mine quite hot and add 2 whole chillis. Although used sparingly, I just cannot get enough of it.

This is not my recipe, I found it on Sue Moran’s fabulous blog called The View from Great Island. We love anything spicy and when I saw her Roasted Jalapeño Ketchup a few weeks ago, I decided to try it. We are still in COVID 19 lockdown and although we can get hold of most ingredients, I could not find any green jalapeño chillis but I could find red fresno chillis so used these instead. We LOVE it!

How to make Chilli Ketchup

You simply have to:

roast 2 chillis – fresno or jalapeño, until slightly charred. This is best done over a naked flame but can also be done under a grill/broiler or in a very hot cast iron griddle
remove the stem and roughly slice the chillis
puree 1 chilli with the ketchup and taste. Add more chilli to suit your taste.

Roast Chilli Ketchup

Course Any

Keyword Ketchup, roast chilli

Prep Time 5 minutes

Ingredients

2 fresno or jalapeno chillis
1 cup/270g tomato ketchup

Instructions

Collect together your equipment (see Recipe Notes below) and ingredients.
Using metal tongs, hold the chillis over a naked flame on the barbecue or over a gas flame on the hob, until charred. Equally you can lay the chillis on the grill in the barbecue and use the tongs to turn the chillis when charred. Alternatively use a grill/broiler, a very hot oven or a cast iron griddle.
Leave until they are cool enough to handle and cut off the stems. Roughly chop the chillis – there is no need to remove the skin or seeds.
Blitz the ketchup and one chilli in a food processor. Taste and continue to add extra chilli until you reach the level of spiciness you are looking for.