I, like many in this world, was brought up with the belief that when it came to ketchup, Heinz had it all sown up. Ketchup was something that came of the grocers shelf and you compared it to the product from Heinz. That was it, there was no way through it. A lot of this was pure ignorance, some from a bit of marketing hype from Heinz themselves.

What I did not know, when I was young, was that a ketchup did not necessarily need to be from tomatoes at all. And in fact, moving away from that restriction opened up a whole new world.

With a proliferation of large red peppers in our allotment they seemed a good candidate for bottling. Digging round the internet and experimenting a little brought me to this recipe. It worked well, and the result is now favoured over my rather wonderful Tomato Ketchup!