Uncle Bens sauce requires a simple principle: wash and chop all vegetables and boil them along with spices for about an hour. The cooking time depends on the amount of sauce to be cooked.
How to brew uncle bens
Products
For 3 liters of sauce
Tomatoes – 2,5 kilograms
Green bell pepper – 6 pieces
Onions – 2 heads
Sugar – 1 glass
Salt – 1 rounded tablespoon
Vegetable oil – 4 tablespoons
Vinegar 70% – 1 teaspoon or half a glass of 9%
Ginger – a small piece
Carnation – several inflorescences
Cinnamon – 1 stick
Black peppercorns – 1 teaspoon
Hot pepper – half a pod
Recipe Ankle Benz
1. Wash the tomatoes, pour over plenty of boiling water, peel and mince.
2. Pour tomato juice into a large saucepan, put on a low heat 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 capsule, put in a saucepan and cook for 10 minutes.
5. Put black and hot peppers, cloves, cinnamon sticks and ginger in a linen bag or cheesecloth and put them in Uncle Bens.
6. Cook everything together for another 20-30 minutes until the desired consistency, pour in the vinegar and stir the Ankle Bens.
7. Remove the spice bag.
8. Pour Uncle Bens into hot sterilized jars, cool and store.
Delicious facts
– For Uncle Bens, it is recommended to use green bell pepper, because it will not completely boil down and the Uncle Bens consistency 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 taste, so it is better to take sweet varieties of tomatoes for the sauce, or add sugar to the sauce.
– To taste, when cooking Uncle Bens, you can add garlic and carrots.
– Due to the fact that oil is not used at all in Uncle Bens, the sauce is considered low-calorie – only 30 kcal / 100 grams.
– Corn starch is used as a thickener in the original Uncle Bens formulation. If you want to make the Uncle Bens thicker, it is recommended to use it, or replace it with potato starch. The amount of starch depends on the desired thickness and can be from 1 to 5 tablespoons.