Uncle Benz is not winter

Ankle Bens for the winter is an excellent preparation that can serve as a sauce for pasta or cereal dishes, and in combination with hearty fillers (beans or rice) will become a delicious side dish. This sauce came to us from America in the nineties and then was a curiosity. Now many housewives have their own recipes for preparations called “Ankle Bens”, which include almost all the vegetables available this season.

How to make Uncle Bens sauce at home

Many housewives use various techniques that allow you to make the preparation tastier:

1. Tomatoes for this sauce are selected sweet and fully ripe. In their absence, it is quite possible to use ready-made tomato paste of good quality.

   

2. Sweet pepper is preferable to green, then it will not boil soft and retain a crispy texture.
3. Vegetables must be clean and dry.
4. Often with tomatoes it is necessary to remove the skin. This is easier to do after blanching the tomatoes in boiling water and immersing them in cold water.
5. Grind tomatoes in any convenient way using a meat grinder or blender.
6. Oils are usually added to this preparation quite a bit, so Ankle Bens can be considered a dietary dish. It is quite suitable for those who want to lose weight.
7. The original Ankle Bens recipe includes cornstarch to thicken the sauce. In home canning, it can also be used or replaced with potato. The amount depends on the density of the sauce: up to 5 tbsp. spoons.
8. Typically, this blank is not further sterilized. Simply pour the boiling sauce into sterile containers. Be sure to wrap canned food before cooling.

Classic Unkle Bens Recipe

The classic sauce recipe does not include too many ingredients, but this does not make it worse. Rich vegetable sweet and sour taste will please any gourmet.

You will need:

• tomatoes – 2 kg;
• bell pepper – 700 g;
• carrot – 400 g;
• lean butter − glass;
• garlic – 6 cloves;
• sugar – 140 g;
• salt – 40 g;
• vinegar (9%) – 25 ml.

To taste and desire, you can add any chopped greens, hot or ground red pepper.

Preparation:

1. Tomatoes are freed from the skin, chopped in a blender.
   Advice! You can use a meat grinder.
2. Boil the tomatoes for a quarter of an hour under the lid.
3. Add chopped vegetables, except for garlic, and simmer for another 20 minutes.
4. Now it’s the turn of spices, oil and garlic cloves that need to be crushed. At the same time, chopped greens and finely chopped hot peppers are added to the sauce.

   

5. Another 5 minutes of boiling, and the sauce is ready for packaging in sterile jars. Hermetic seaming is the main condition for the preservation of canned food.

Ankle Bens for the winter with tomatoes

This preparation most of all resembles a sauce and in its consistency it is exactly that.

You will need:

• 5 kg of tomatoes;
• a pair of large bulbs;
• 6-8 garlic cloves;
• 2 cup of sugar;
• 90 g salt;
• 5 teaspoons of powdered mustard;
• 20 ml vinegar 9%.

From spices, you need 4 teaspoons of ground black pepper and 8 bay leaves.

How to cook:

1. Prepared tomatoes are crushed in any convenient way.

   

2. Spices are added to the tomato mass and boiled for a quarter of an hour.
3. Onions and garlic are turned into gruel and added together with sugar, salt and mustard to the sauce.
4. After 5 minutes of boiling, they are packaged in sterile dishes and rolled up.
5. The workpiece must be warmed up during the day under a blanket.

Unkle Bens Pepper and Tomato

Another ketchup recipe enriched with bell pepper and herbs.

Ingredients:

• tomatoes – 5 kg;
• onions – 300 g;
• sweet pepper – 400 g;
• salt – 50 g;
• sugar – 1,5 cups;
• vinegar – 0,5 cups (9%);
• ground black pepper – 1 teaspoon;
• hot red pepper – 0,5 tsp;
• greens – to taste.

Of the spices, a pinch of cinnamon and a few bay leaves are recommended.

Preparation:

1. It is not necessary to chop the tomatoes for this sauce, just cut them into cubes. Onions and bell peppers are cut even larger into 4 parts.
2. All this is boiled in a saucepan without a lid on very low heat 2 times for an hour and a half with an interval between cooking of a couple of hours.
3. After cooling, the vegetable mixture is rubbed through a sieve and put back to boil, adding all the spices and spices.

   

   Important! The greens are not cut, but tied in a bundle and put in a pan. When the sauce is ready, take it out.
4. The final cooking time is another 3 hours. The volume of ketchup in the process should be halved.
5. Boiling sauce is packaged in sterilized containers and immediately rolled up. It does not need additional heating.

Uncle Bens without tomatoes

When preparing an Ankle Bens appetizer, tomatoes in any recipe can be replaced with tomato paste. The proportions here are as follows: 1 kg of tomatoes corresponds to 300 g of tomato paste.

To get a filling, it must be mixed with water. If diluted 3 times, we get an equivalent replacement for tomato juice from a kilogram of tomatoes. If you want a thicker sauce, you can take less water, but the taste will become more saturated.

Ingredients:

• tomato paste – 900 g;
• carrots, onions – 0,5 kg each;
• Bulgarian pepper – 10 pcs.;
• 12 cloves of garlic;
• a bunch of parsley;
• a glass of vegetable oil and sugar;
• salt – 50 g;
• apple cider vinegar – 75 ml.

How to cook:

1. Dilute the tomato paste and let it boil.
2. Vegetables are cut into strips and added to the tomatoes. Simmer all together for another 20 minutes.

   

3. All seasonings are added, except for vinegar, herbs and garlic, they are pre-crushed.
4. After 5 minutes of heating over low heat, the sauce is seasoned with vinegar and packaged in sterile containers. Be sure to wrap before cooling.

Ankle Bens salad with carrots and garlic

This salad is quick to prepare and delicious.

You will need:

• tomatoes – 3 kg;
• 2 kg sweet pepper;
• 1 kg of carrots, onions;
• 24 garlic cloves;
• 1 glass of vegetable oil and sugar;
• salt – 1,5 tbsp. spoons;
• 0,5 cups of vinegar (9%).

How to cook:

1. Tomatoes are crushed with a meat grinder, all seasonings are added, except for vinegar, and evaporated for 15 minutes.
2. Shredded vegetables, except for garlic, spread in the sauce and cook for another 1/3 hour. Chopped garlic cloves are placed in the workpiece after a quarter of an hour.
3. After adding vinegar, the products are packaged in sterile containers, rolled up, covered with a blanket.

Lecho Ankle Bens Pepper

It has bell pepper in it. A large amount of sugar makes it sweetish, unlike the traditional Bulgarian lecho.

Ingredients:

• 6 kg of tomatoes;
• 5-6 kg of bell pepper;
• carrots and onions – 10 pcs.;
• sunflower oil and sugar – 2 cups each;
• vinegar (9%) – 1 cup.

How to cook:

1. Scroll the tomatoes using a meat grinder.
   Advice! You can additionally rub them through a sieve to free them from seeds.
2. Boil the tomato mass, adding oil and spices, for about a quarter of an hour.
3. Onions cut into half rings, sweet red peppers, grated carrots are added to the lecho and boiled for another quarter of an hour. They are tested for salt, seasoned with vinegar and packaged in sterile containers, rolled up.

Ankle Bens sauce with cinnamon and cloves

These spices give the sauce an indescribable taste and aroma.

You will need:

• 2,5 kg of tomatoes;
• two bulbs;
• 0,5 cup of sugar;
• 0,5 Art. spoons of salt;
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, black pepper;
• 1/4 teaspoon ground celery seeds;
• Xnumx bud clove.

Vinegar is added to this preparation to taste.

How to cook:

1. Chopped tomatoes are boiled for 15 minutes. To separate them from seeds and skins, rub through a sieve.
2. Onions are chopped in a blender and boiled with tomato puree until the density is desired.
3. Add spices and spices, cook for another quarter of an hour.

   

4. Season to taste with vinegar and packaged in a sterile container, sealed.

Delicious Unkle Bens with rice

Such a hearty preparation will completely replace the second dish.

Products:

• 2,5 kg of tomatoes;
• 700 g each of sweet peppers, carrots and onions;
• hot pepper pod;
• 200 g of rice;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 150 ml lean oil;
• 2,5 st. tablespoons of vinegar (9%);
• 1,5 Art. spoons of salt.

How to cook:

1. Vegetables, except for peppers, are crushed through a meat grinder, boiled for 10 minutes, immediately adding oil and spices.

   

2. Rinse the rice and put it into the sauce. They languish for a quarter of an hour.
3. Add the peppers cut into squares and cook over low heat under the lid until the rice is ready.
4. Seasoned with vinegar, laid out in sterile containers, rolled up, insulated.

Ankle Bens for the winter: a recipe with cucumbers and herbs

This Ankle Bens sauce recipe for the winter has cucumbers in it, which makes it taste original. Dill and parsley give it a special flavor and enrich it with useful vitamins.

Products:

• 5 kg of tomatoes;
• 2 kg of bell pepper, fresh cucumbers, carrots and onions;
• 6 heads of garlic;
• two bunches of dill and parsley;
• one and a half glasses of sugar;
• 200 ml of vegetable oil and vinegar (6%);
• 100 g salt.

How to prepare:

1. Crushed tomatoes are boiled for 10 minutes.

   

2. The remaining vegetables are cut into cubes and added in turn with an interval of 10 minutes in the following order: carrots, onions, peppers, cucumbers.
3. Season with spices and oil, cook for another half hour.
4. Grind garlic and herbs, add them to the sauce, pour vinegar.
5. After 5 minutes, the salad can be laid out in a sterile dish and corked.

Spicy preparation for the winter: Ankle Bens with beans

Another option for a hearty snack for the winter is Uncle Bens.

Products:

• 1,5 kg of tomatoes;
• 0,5 kg of carrots, sweet peppers and onions;
• hot pepper pod;
• a glass of already boiled beans;
• 100 grams of sugar;
• 30 g salt;
• 120 ml vegetable oil.

How to cook:

1. Chop all vegetables except beans, season with spices and oil and boil for 1/3 hour.
2. Spread the beans in the sauce and continue to stew the same amount.
3. Packed in prepared dishes and subjected to sterilization: for liter jars, the time is 20 minutes. Roll up.

Ankle Bens for the winter “lick your fingers”: a recipe with pumpkin

Pumpkin is a very useful vegetable. Its presence in the sauce makes the taste of the workpiece unforgettable.

Products:

• 1,2 kg of pumpkin;
• 0,5 kg of onion and sweet pepper;
• 4 garlic cloves;
• half a glass of sugar and vegetable oil;
• one and a half glasses of tomato juice;
• 30 g salt.

How to cook:

1. Vegetables are cut into cubes, mixed and poured with tomato juice.
2. All components are added, with the exception of vinegar, it is poured in at the end of the stew, which should last half an hour.
3. A couple of minutes after adding the vinegar, you can lay out the salad in sterile jars. Seal hermetically.

Salad Ankle Bens: recipe with Krasnodar sauce

Sweet and sour Krasnodar sauce has a special taste and is very well suited for preparing blanks.

Ingredients:

• 2,5 kg of sweet pepper;
• one and a half kg of carrots and onions;
• 1 liter of tomato juice and Krasnodar sauce;
• one and a half glasses of vegetable oil;
• salt – to taste.

How to cook:

1. They rub carrots on a grater for Korean dishes, cut onions into half rings. Stew vegetables in a thick-walled bowl with the addition of vegetable oil for 15-20 minutes.

   

2. Add sweet pepper, cut into wide strips, sauce and juice. Stew until half cooked pepper, season with salt. Lay out in sterile dishes, sterilize. It is enough to keep liter jars in a water bath for 10 minutes, and then cork.

Uncle Bens with pineapples

This savory seasoning is suitable for meat, fish and pasta.

Products:

• 3 kg of ripe tomatoes and sweet peppers;
• canned pineapples – 1,7 l;
• 3 pods of hot pepper;
• 0,25 l of tomato paste;
• one and a half glasses of sugar;
• 5 large bulbs;
• 75 g salt;
• 3 art. tablespoons of starch, preferably corn.

How to cook:

1. Remove the skin from the tomatoes, cut into small pieces, grind half with a blender to the state of juice.

   

   Advice! It is also better to remove seeds from tomatoes.
2. Dilute tomato paste in a ratio of 1: 2, adding salt, sugar, chopped tomatoes.
3. Finely chopped onion is sprinkled with vinegar, spread in a tomato mass, simmered over low heat for 10 minutes.
4. Add finely chopped bell pepper and cook for another 1/3 hour.
5. Peeled hot peppers are cut in half and soaked in water for an hour, changing the water once during this time.
6. The remaining tomatoes are cut into pieces and put into the sauce, boiled for another quarter of an hour.
7. Pineapples are cut into cubes, hot peppers are finely chopped and everything is added to the sauce.
   Attention! Pineapple juice is not poured.
8. After 10 minutes, starch diluted with pineapple juice is added and allowed to boil.
9. Packed in sterile dishes, rolled up, warmed up under a blanket.

Ankle Bens salad recipe for the winter with soy sauce and celery

Despite the fact that this recipe contains exotic ingredients, it tastes the closest to the original Ankle Bens sauce from the manufacturer.

Ingredients:

• 400 g of tomato ketchup without additives;
• a can of canned pineapple rings;
• one large onion and one medium carrot;
• one and a half sweet peppers;
• two stalks of celery;
• half a pod of hot pepper;
• a pair of garlic cloves;
• 150 grams of sugar;
• 125 ml wine vinegar;
• juice squeezed from half a lemon;
• 2-3 tablespoons of soy sauce;
• 2 tablespoons of corn starch;
• vegetable oil for frying, olive oil is better.

Preparation:

1. All vegetables, except garlic and pepper, are cut into cubes. Capsicum is cleaned of seeds, finely chopped in the same way as garlic.

   

   Warning! Pineapple juice is not poured out.
2. Starch is poured with cold water in the amount of 0,5 cups and allowed to stand.
3. For cooking, you will need thick-walled dishes. In a small amount of oil, alternately fry all the vegetables and pineapples. The fire must be strong, it is necessary to interfere with them.
4. In a deep bowl, fry pieces of hot pepper and garlic with the addition of oil for about 5-7 minutes.
5. After reducing the heat, add everything to the pan, except for vegetables.
6. When it boils, spread vegetables and pineapples.
7. Let it boil for 5 minutes, pour in the starch in a thin stream, mix well and let it thicken.
8. Spread in a sterile dish and placed in a water bath for 20 minutes (liter jars). Roll up and warm under the covers.

Ankle Bens recipe with tomato paste and basil

This fragrant herb goes well with tomatoes, and with the addition of hot peppers, the sauce will become spicy and spicy.

Products:

• 2 kg of tomatoes;
• 350 g onions;
• 0,5 kg of sweet pepper;
• garlic head;
• bunch of basil;
• 150 g of tomato paste.

Salt and add sugar, guided by their own taste.

Preparation:

1. Peel off the tomatoes, cut into cubes in the same way as onions, sweet and bitter peppers. The garlic is finely chopped.
2. First, the onion is fried until it becomes transparent, pepper is added to it and fried together for a quarter of an hour.
3. The turn of hot spices came: garlic and hot pepper.
4. After another 7 minutes, spread the tomatoes and stew everything together until it thickens. Usually half an hour is enough for this.
5. Season the sauce with spices and finely chopped basil, mix with tomato paste and bring to readiness for another 20 minutes.

   

6. They are laid out in sterile dishes, rolled up, warmed up under a blanket or blanket.

Uncle Bens for the winter in a slow cooker

Cooking in a slow cooker is easy and convenient. Many housewives have already adapted it for canning. It turns out well in it the sauce “Uncle Ben’s”.

Products:

• tomatoes – 1 kg;
• carrots – 2 pcs.;
• white cabbage – 150 g;
• bell pepper – 4 pcs.;
• onion;
• a couple of cloves of garlic;
• as many bay leaves;
• vegetable oil – 75 ml;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 2 tbsp. tablespoons of vinegar (9%).

Adding fresh or dried herbs will make the salad more appetizing.

Preparation:

1. Vegetables, except for cabbage, garlic and tomatoes, are cut into cubes. Oil is poured into the multicooker bowl, the “Frying” mode is set, it is allowed to warm up for a couple of minutes and the chopped vegetables are laid out. They need to be fried for 5 minutes.
2. Cabbage is shredded, spread to vegetables and cooked in the “Stewing” mode for another 6 minutes.
3. Grind tomatoes in a convenient way and pour into a slow cooker.
4. All remaining ingredients are added, including garlic and herbs, but no vinegar.

   

5. Close the lid and continue to simmer for 40 minutes.
6. Vinegar is added, after 5 minutes the multicooker is turned off.
7. The sauce is immediately packaged in sterile containers and rolled up.

Storage Rules Uncle Bens

This blank is well worth it if the dishes are sterilized, the vegetables are well washed, and the cooking technology has not been violated. The best place to store any canned food is a cool basement. In its absence, a pantry or other room without access to light is suitable. According to the hostesses, even in such conditions, the Uncle Bens sauce will stand until spring if it is not eaten earlier.

Ankle Bens for the winter is a great way to diversify the menu in a season when tomatoes come to stores only from greenhouses. Salad is used not only as an appetizer, but also as a dressing in soups or additions to almost any dish.