Homemade Adjika with Apples

Homemade adjika with apples is a vegetable sauce variation made with tomatoes, carrots, sweet peppers and hot peppers. The ingredients are minced and simmered over low heat.

Ingredients

 11 kg carrots
 21 kg apples
 31 kg sweet peppers
 41 cup peeled garlic cloves
 53-4 kg tomatoes or 3 l tomato juice
 61-2 hot peppers
 71 cup vinegar
 81 cup refined vegetable oil
 91 cup sugar
102 tbsp coarse non-iodized salt

Instructions

Wash the vegetables and apples. Peel the carrots and garlic, core the apples and remove the stems and seeds from the peppers.

Pass the carrots, apples, peppers, garlic and tomatoes through a meat grinder. If using tomato juice instead of tomatoes, add it to the minced mixture. The juice will make a thinner sauce.

Transfer the mixture to a large saucepan. Add the vinegar, vegetable oil, sugar and salt, then stir.

Simmer over low heat for about 1.5 hours, stirring regularly.

Sterilize the jars and lids. Spoon the hot adjika into the jars and close them. Let cool and store in the refrigerator.