Tomato Relish, thanks to Ronan

Well Hi again, as I mentioned in the previous Blog we had picked a bucket of tomatoes from the garden, and Ronan made (with a little help from Mum) a tomato relish.
The recipe we used was a "whatever we have in the house" recipe. Using ingredients that could be used to make a tomato relish, without going out shopping.
We used:

Small bucket of baby roma tomatoes (picked from the garden)

Some brown sugar, what was left of a Spanish onion, about 3/4, some Italian white wine vinegar (I'm not big on measuring), sprig of Rosemary (picked from the garden), garlic, mustard, all spice and seasoning

Roughly chop the tomatoes (we want a chunky relish)

Chop, chop, chop

and more chopping !

Mummy did the onions

Peeling the Rosemary off the sprig

Scrape ingredients into the Le Creuset - of course !

Stir onion gently until almost clear, then add brown sugar, let cook for a while until dissolved. Then add all the rest of the ingredients - I used about two tablespoons of vinegar and the same of brown sugar and then heaps of garlic.

Bring to boil, then turn down to simmer, for around an hour or so, you can tell buy how it looks and tastes when its finished.

Reducing nicely, just a bit longer

Ready to jar up into some washed out, left over pesto jars we had

Finished product!

You could wash the labels off these and decorate with fabric and ties. They would make great gifts.

Ronan - "Junior Master Chef "- very proud of his work.

Verdict:

Tasted this so far with eggs on toast for breakfast, mmmmm. Then I had it with spinach and ricotta triangles, yummmy. Next time we will add chilli to it, for Mum and Dad.