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    Canning Tomatoes: Roasted Salsaby Forkableon October 12, 2008

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    Canning Tomatoes: Roasted Salsa ................................................................................................

    Intro: Canning Tomatoes: Roasted Salsa .........................................................................................

    Step 1: Gather Ingredients ....................................................................................................

    Step 2: Gather Your Ingredients ...............................................................................................

    Step 3: Clean Tomaotes .....................................................................................................

    Step 4: Prepare Tomatillos ...................................................................................................

    Step 5: Cut Your Vegetables and Mix Ingredients Together ...........................................................................

    Step 6: Roast Salsa ........................................................................................................ 1

    Step 7: Tools .............................................................................................................. 1

    Step 8: Canning Hacks ...................................................................................................... 1

    Step 9: Sterilize Jars and lids .................................................................................................. 1

    Step 10: Fill Jars With Salsa .................................................................................................. 1

    Step 11: Seal Jars .......................................................................................................... 1

    Step 12: Salsa Is Done ...................................................................................................... 2

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    [http://forkableblog.com/ Read my Forkable food blog] I am a busy gal, with working and socializing, but cooking delicious home made food is a priority. It csometimes be hard to fit it all in, so I am always on the lookout for handy shortcuts to save time without compromising on quality.

    Intro: Canning Tomatoes: Roasted SalsaCanning is a fun and exciting way of preserving fall's fresh flavors year round, and it is much easier then people think. Aside from some the necessary canning jars anlids, you can hack together the rest of the equipment with things laying around your kitchen. When canning, you're generally doing things in bulk, which means moretime. My roasted salsa is a time saving solution, to help those of us with busy schedules, enjoy slow food for fast living. In this instructable, I'm going to show how Icanned my salsa. If you follow these instructions, you'll find canning to be easy and rewarding!

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    Image Notes1. Roasted Salsa2. roasted marinara I made at the same time.

    Step 1:Gather IngredientsIn the fall, the best quality vegetables are available for cheap. This is the time of year to pull out the canning jars and get to work. I'm lucky enough to have parents witbig gardenwho usually get way too much produce to take care of themselves. If you have a garden, you may know how much work they can be, so my parents are ontoo happy to send things home with me. Even though I have to take the Amtrak to see them, I was still able to slug a 50 lb bag of tomatoeshome with me.

    I was super happy to have that many tomatoes, but being a busy person, I didn't have much time to spend processing them. As they were super ripe and fading fast, Ineeded a quick solution. My answer was to roast them with some peppers and onions to make a salsa. WIth roasting, the tomatoes and vegetables cook down so a qpulse in the food processor takes care of what hours of chopping would. Then by canning the salsa, I can enjoy it all through the winter. Its so easy, anyone can do it .

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    Step 2:Gather Your IngredientsFor my salsa, I used about:

    25 lbs of tomaotes5 lbs of tomatillos5 Jalapeno peppers, seeds removed5 pablano peppers2-3 red bell peppers5-6 large onions1 whole head of garlic1-2 tbs of cumin1-2 tbs of chilli pepper1 tbs of kosher salt2-3 tsp of black pepper

    I don't really measure things, going mostly by feel, but these measurements are pretty accurate. With seasonings, you want enough so it cooks into salsa, but perhapsbetter to err on less then more as you can easily add more seasoning after its done cooking to fine tune the flavor.

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    1. rotten spots2. gross!3. get rid of all this knarly stuff!

    Step 3:Clean TomaotesUsing a paring knife, core tomatoes, removing the stem area. Cut out any bruised or rotten parts of tomato as well.

    Image Notes1. rotten spots2. gross!3. get rid of all this knarly stuff!

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    1. This one had a huge rotten area we needed to cut out.

    Step 4:Prepare TomatillosTomatillosare like a mix between a tomato and a pepper. To prepare them, you peel away the husk and rise off any sticky residue under the faucet. With a paring knifcore like a tomato.

    Image Notes

    1. remove husk2. wash off any sticky residue.

    Image Notes1. its gone!

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomatillo/
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    Step 5:Cut Your Vegetables and Mix Ingredients TogetherThe best thing about roasted salsa is you don't have to sit around and cut everything into small bite size chunks. I hate cutting tomatoes, because no matter how sharpyour knife, its just a pain. Your knife slides around and your hands get all pruney. With roasted salsa, your vegetables will cook down, so you just need to roughly chop

    Tomatoes and tomatillos: You don't necessarily need to cut up your tomatoes or tomatillos unless they are really big. You might want to cut them in half and quartersdepending on size. If you aren't sure, just cut them in half.

    Onions: Remove ends, cut in half and do a rough slice.

    Peppers: Cut in half and remove seeds.

    Garlic: separate into cloves and remove skin.

    In a roaster, mix vegetables with spices and olive oil.

    Image Notes1. yellow tomatoes. They are less acidic then other varieties.2. red bell peppers3. onions4. jalapeno5. lots of tomatoes6. lots of tomatoes7. garlic8. i roasted some marinara at the same time. Same process, different spices and

    no peppers.9. tomatillos10. pablano peppers11. I got these two antique enamel baby bath tubs at a yard sale for $1 and theywork fine as roasters.12. roaster of more tomatoes for salsa!

    Image Notes1. rough chopped onions

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    Image Notes1. jalapenos

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    Image Notes1. Lots of seasonings!

    Step 6:Roast SalsaRoast Salsa at 300 degrees for 2-3 hours or until vegetables are cooked down.

    Place roasted salsa in a food processor and mix with a couple quick pulses until a chunky suace forms a salsa consistency.

    At this point, I usually always add the juice of 2-3 limes for flavor and to increase the acidity level to make it safe for canning. You can also add a couple of tablespoonapple cider vinegar.

    Taste your salsa and add any extra seasonings to get it be just how you like it. A little more salt? Maybe some more chilli or hot sauce? Or perhaps a bit of sugar?

    Your salsa is done. Now its time to can it!

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    Step 7:ToolsYou will need to purchase or acquire canning specific jars and lids. Bell Jars are the most common. The lids come with a seal top and a ring that twists onto top othe jar to hold on l id with the seal. You can find these products at some grocery stores or hardware stores. Not everyone carries them anymore, but perhaps just trycalling stores ahead before going to purchase to make sure. Purchasing jars are a solid investment because you can just keep reusing them again and again, onlyreplacing the lid seals.

    Once you have the Jars though, its not absolutely mandatory to have other canning specific tools.Items which help are a canning pot with a rack made to holdcanning jars as well as tongs shaped for grabbing jars.

    I don't have a canning specific pot or rack. I just use a large 5 gallon aluminum stock pot,we got a long time ago for brewing beer. I think we bought it at a locagrocery store for about $15. If you don't have one, you can use a large soup pot. As you need the boiling water to cover your jars 2 inches or at the very least an inyou may not be able to can pint or quart jars in this, but you will be able to use the smaller cup jars, which will work for salsa.

    A canning rack is used to keep the jars away from touching the bottom and sides of the hot metal pot. Because I don't have a rack, I just put a dish towel at thebottom of the pot and sit the jars on top of the towel to keep the jars from having contact with the hot metal. It works fine, although slightly annoying. I havecanned without the towel before when I was so annoyed with the towel, and I didn't have any jars break, but I wouldn't suggest this for any jars which require moreprocessing time.

    I recently got canning tongs, but before that, I used regular kitchen tongs. You can improvise with what you have.

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    Image Notes1. Pint jars ready to go. You can reuse your canning jars over and over again, soalways save empties for your next canning project.

    Image Notes1. case of new ball pint jars

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    Image Notes1. new lids and rings for wide mouth jars2. new lids and rings for narrow mouth jars

    Image Notes1. 5 gallon aluminum stock pot.2. ordinary dish towel3. canning tongs

    Step 8:Canning HacksTo simplify a bit from all the info in the last step:

    If you don't have a canning pot:

    You can use any of the following pots as long as they are big enough for your jars. You can't use anything smaller then a stock pot for the quart jars, but you can use tshorter soup pot for the 1/2 cup jars. In terms of pot size, you just want to make sure you have a couple inches above the top of the jar as they should be submerged iwater at least an inch or two.

    If you don't have a canning rack:

    You can use a circular wire rack in your pot. This picture I got off the internet, as my wire racks don't fit in my pot. Ignore the ties, as this pic was for a different purposebut you can place this rack at the bottom of your pot and it will keep the jars away from the heated bottom as well as allow circulation of water around jars.

    You can also use my method of a dish towel as a buffer to keep jars away from bottom

    If you don't have canning tongs :

    You may have any of these other kitchen tongs which work fine.

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    Image Notes1. 5 gallon pot2. 2 gallon stock pot3. sauce pan4. soup pot5. quart jar6. pint jar7. these are called 1/2 pint jars, which i think is silly because that means its a 1

    cup jar.8. 1/2 cup jar

    Image Notes

    1. canning specific pot

    Image Notes1. with half pint jar in the soup pot there is not enough room for all the water youneed.2. this looks good.

    Image Notes1. awesome drawing of canning rack

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    Image Notes1. wire rack in pot.2. stock pot3. ignore ties, this photo was for something else. just place rack at bottom of pot.

    Image Notes1. 5 gallon aluminum stock pot.2. ordinary dish towel3. canning tongs

    Image Notes1. canning tongs2. spring tongs3. scissor tongs

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    Step 9:Sterilize Jars and lidsBoil enough water in a large pot so jars will be fully submerged. Boil for 5-10 minutes or so to sterilize. Pull jars out and allow to dry on a towel.

    Sterilize as many pint or quart jars as you will need. I usually sterilize more then I think I will need just to be safe.

    In a small sauce pan, sterilize lids in boiling water. I keep the lids in the water until I am ready to use.

    Keep water boiling because you will need the boiling water later to seal the jars.

    Image Notes1. Canning Tongs2. Pot of boiling water3. Pouring water out after jar has been boiling for a while to sterilize.

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    Image Notes1. Jars are sitting on dish towel to keep them from touching the hot metal of thepot.2. Jars being sterilized in boiling water

    Image Notes1. Sterilize lids in boiling water.

    Step 10:Fill Jars With SalsaOnce the Jars are sterilized. Fill the jars with your warm salsa allowing for 1/2 of air at the top of the jars.

    Once jars are filled, clean any salsa slop which may be on tops of glass r ims. You need to have clean rims because the rubber on the underside of the lids needs to tocontact with the glass in order for a safe seal. Place lids on clean jars rims and screw rings on to tightly secure lids. You don't want your lids to move around during thecanning process.

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    Step 11:Seal JarsFor acidic foods like any tomato products, fruit jams or chutneys or pickles which have a vinegar brine, canning in boiling water is a safe practice. For anything withoutenough acid content like soups, chicken or beef stock or vegetables like beans or beats, you can't can them safely unless you have a Pressure cooker. Do a bit ofresearch if you want to can a recipe you are not sure about just to make sure. Canning is fun and easy, but be safe!

    Keep water boiling from the sterilizing step, and place jars down into the rolling boiling water.If you have a boiling canning rack for your pot, you can load asmany jars that fit on the rack and then lower them all on the rack into the water at the same time. As I said, I don't have a rack. When using a dish towel to keep the jafrom touching the bottom of the pot, the towel won't be sitting on the bottom of the pot, but will be rolling all over in the boiling water. I lower the jars one at a time into tpot and make sure to push the towel down with the jar so it doesn't have contact with the hot sides of the metal pot. You want the water to be about 2 inches above thtop of the jars. When you put the jars into the water, the rolling boil will stop for a while as the water has absorbed some of the coolness from the jars.

    Watch the water, and when it begins to be a rolling boil again, start timing for the sealing process. For salsa, I leave the jars in for 5 minutes.**

    After 5 minutes, take the jars out and allow to sit on the counter. As the jars cool, a vacuum will form in the jars and suck the lid down. As the jars sit, you w

    hear an occasion ping. That ping indicates the seal has been successfully made. Its one of the most rewarding sounds in the kitchen!

    You may notice after a couple of hours that some jars haven't sealed; the lid is not sunken down but still able to be pushed up and down. One reason your jars mnot have sealed is because they needed more time in the boiling water. You can just reprocess them by placing them back in boiling water. Try leaving them in fbetween 5-10 minutes.** They should seal up.If you have tried reprocessing a couple of times and the seals are not being made, there is always a chance yohave a faulty jar or lid.***

    **Processing times are given for low elevation areas. For elevations of 3000-5000 ft, add 5-10 minutes to boiling time. For elevations above 5000 ft add at le15 minutes to your process time.

    **Never use jars which have cracks or chips in the upper rim, and never use lids and rings which are dented or bent in such a way as to not allow full contwith seal to jar. If the lid does not have full contact with the jar, the lid may not fully seal, or worse, the jar may appear sealed but any crack in jar or nick inseal lid may allow a small amount of air through over time, which will create an environment for bacteria. If you ever pull a jar out of your pantry in which tlid is not sucked down but has popped back up in the center on its own, discard contents of jar and DO NOT eat.

    Image Notes1. using tongs, place jars in pot of boiling water. After processing time, remove jarsonto a towel using tongs.

    Image Notes1. When jars first go in, rolling boil will stop.

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    Image Notes1. Once rolling boil begins again, begin your processing time.

    Step 12:Salsa Is DoneMark your jars with the name and date you made your salsa on the sealed top so you won't forget about it. Place the jars in your pantry. It will stay good for a year or s

    Image Notes1. Roasted Salsa2. roasted marinara I made at the same time.

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    scuba03says: Jan 13, 2011. 11:46 PM REPwhere in australia can i find tomatillos or can i use something else? thanks

    Sylviasvideosfyisays: Sep 26, 2010. 9:39 PM REPThis looks so good! I will keep this in mind next year! Thanks for posting.

    roof racksays: Oct 17, 2008. 12:41 AM REPHi, I'm a Certified Master Food Preserver volunteer w/ the Cooperative Extension Service. I don't know where you got you recipe for salsa but it seemsunsafe to me. Tomatoes have a pH of about 4.6 and can be safely canned in a boiling water canner w/ 1 tablespoon lemon or lime juice per pint added toinsure the pH is 4.6 or lower. The boiling water canning time for acidified, crushed tomatoes is 35 minutes in a boiling water canner at sea level to 1,000 ft.USDA recommends that foods w/ a pH > 4.6 be processed in a pressure canner. You seem to have added enough vegetables that have a pH > 4.6 to raisthe pH of the salsa mixture well above 4.6. The bacterium that produces botulism toxin is anaerobic and grows well at pH levels > 4.6. You can check the pof many vegetables as well as fruits, meats and seafood here: http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~comm/lacf-phs.html.For more information about canning salsacontact your local Extension Service plus you can find information and safe recipes here:http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/usda/utah_can_guide_03.pdf.The home page for the latter site is here: http://www.uga.edu/nchfp/index.html.It is thUSDA's National Center for Home Food Preservation. There is a wealth of info about canning, freezing and dehydration at their site. If your local Extension

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    Service has a Master Food Preserver program they will also have workshops on safely home canning foods. It is great to see others that value homemadeand home preserved foods. Please be safe and Happy Canning.

    drbillsays: Dec 29, 2009. 6:07 PM REPWoW !

    roof racksays: Oct 23, 2009. 9:54 AM REPHi barbantia,

    The University of Georgia at Athens, GA has rearranged their links for The National Center for Home Food Preservation. I've appended the new linkThey've added a PPT for canning salsa. I've appended the link for it also. There are several other PPTs for preserving foods that can be accessed fro

    the HomePage via theFor Educators

    link.

    Thanks for bringing this to my attention. Other viewers needed to know too.

    gumby

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    Home Pagehttp://www.uga.edu/nchfp/

    Salsa Pagehttp://www.uga.edu/nchfp/how/can_salsa.html

    USDA Cannig Guides (There 7 of them)http://www.uga.edu/nchfp//publications/publications_usda.html

    Step-by-Step Canning of Tomato-Pepper Salsahttp://www.uga.edu/nchfp/publications/uga/TomatoSalsa_web.ppt

    brabantiasays: Oct 23, 2009. 2:40 AM REPyour "uga" links don't seem to work?

    SinAmossays: Jul 16, 2009. 7:21 PM REPWow, gumby8488 - way to spread disinformation. Only some tomatoes have a pH of 4.6. More are a lot more acidic.

    roof racksays: Sep 19, 2010. 12:30 PM REPHi SinAmos,

    I think I responded to your comments before, but I've just received a note from Instructables'mail daemon indicating I have not.

    First, let me state from whence I speak. I am a Extension Service certified Master Gardener and Master Food Preserver. I have been at theseavocations about four decades.

    You are correct that only some tomatoes have a pH of 4.6. However, noneof them are "a lot more acidic". USDA has verified the pH on a sufficienumber of tomato varieties, including heritage varieties, to confidently make the following observation:The pH of ALL tomatoes, plus tomatillos whiare related to cape-gooseberries and ground cherries, have pHs that hoover around 4.6.

    Because it is impractical to verify the pH of the hundreds of varieties of tomatoes grown in widely variable growing conditions (not to mention theaccidental hybrids produced when a home gardener grows more than one variety and collects seeds for next year's crop), and because pH testers sufficient accuracy and reliablity are too costly for home users, USDA recommends that all tomatoes be acidified before being home canned. Also,because adding low acid foods such as peppers and onions to tomatoes raises the pH, USDA further recommends that only labaratory safety testerecipes for salsa and other tomato based products be used.

    gumby8488

    Forkablesays: Oct 17, 2008. 7:01 AM REPthanks for all the helpful information and links. I am glad to have more scientific information included here. As I said, canning is fun and easy but it is beto be safe. I am confident my recipe is safe and my salsa is acidic enough as I always add lime juice after roasting. However, I realize my wordingdoesn't make it sound like a stipulated step in my recipe which I will change now. thanks.

    graphaksays: Sep 23, 2009. 7:54 PM REPpretty nice recipe. I had to scale down a bit though lol. I also added a whole plant of purple basil that I grew, cilantro, and oregano. Its still roasting, but itsmells and tastes awesome so far. Thanks for sharing

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    sarah p.says: Sep 15, 2009. 4:01 PM REPYes, how much olive oil?? I'm excited to make this salsa! :)

    stembridgesays: Jul 30, 2009. 6:06 AM REPyou leave the skin on....?

    Forkablesays: Jul 30, 2009. 12:11 PM REPYes, I do. I don't think its necessary to remove the skin for salsa.

    stembridgesays: Jul 30, 2009. 1:11 PM REPthank you!

    wenderellasays: Apr 15, 2009. 10:32 AM REPcan I use canned tomatoes for the salsa?

    canningmomsays: Oct 19, 2008. 4:05 PM REPForkable, I am confused- how much olive oil am I suppose to add to the vegies, otherwise I think this is a pretty simple receipe. Thanks, Headcooker

    atombomb1945says:Oct 14, 2008. 9:41 AM REP

    I just tried making a large batch of "fresh" salsa by just mixing everything together in a bowl. My wi fe and I both agree that something was missing from themix, and I think I am going to try the roasting method you mention here.

    Forkablesays: Oct 18, 2008. 9:13 AM REPYou can can (that sounds funny) fresh salsa as well if you want to. However it needs to process longer. The salsa in my instructable has been cooked fso long in the oven, it doesn't require as much processing time because any bacteria is killed during the roasting process. My parents can fresh salsaevery year and process small pint jars in boiling water for about 30 minutes and larger quart jars for 45.

    swafosays: Oct 16, 2008. 2:23 PM REPThank you so much! These are great directions and wonderful photos. Very good job putting this instructable together.

    Forkablesays: Oct 16, 2008. 3:12 PM REP

    thank you!

    jessyratfinksays: Oct 14, 2008. 7:34 AM REPThis looks amazing! What a good idea. I might try to tweak this a bit. I make homemade salsa, but not as often as I'd like. This would make it easier to keeit on hand. :D

    Forkablesays: Oct 13, 2008. 7:25 PM REPIf you like this, you may also be interested in my Dilly Green Bean Pickles instructablewhich also features oddly similar canning information.

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