Recipe f0r Canning Sweet and Spicy Peach Salsa

This easy recipe for canning sweet and spicy peach salsa is delicious and great to serve with chips with friends or just snacking by yourself. It is yummy! The sweet heat from the combination of peaches with salsa is so delicious, it is hard to stop eating it!

Ingredients

- – 6 cups Peaches: Peeled and chopped – 3 Cups Tomatoes: Finely chopped – 1 Bell Pepper: Finely chopped. – Hot Peppers: Finely chopped. – 1 large Red Onion, Finally chopped – 5 Tbsp Cilantro: Finely Chopped – 1/2 cup White Vinegar – 1/2 Tbsp Minced Garlic:  – 1-2 tsp Canning Salt – 1/2 Tbsp Liquid Smoke

First wash the peaches. Then blanch the peaches or put them in ice water to make them easier to peel.

Peel and roughly chop the peaches.

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Add the peaches to a large pot.

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Puree the tomatoes in a food processor and add them to the stock pot.

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Chop the onion, bell pepper and hot pepper in the food processor. Add these and the remaining ingredients to the stock pot.

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Heat on medium-high heat and bring the ingredients to a boil. Simmer for 5 to 10 minutes.

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Ladle the hot salsa into the canning jars, leaving 1/2 inch headspace. Wipe the rims of the jars, remove the air bubbles and add the lids.

Add the canning jars to the boiling water bath and process jars at a full rolling boil for 10 minutes.

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Remove the hot jars from the canning pot after the processing time with a jar lifter and place jars on a kitchen towel on the counter. Do not disturb for 24 hours.

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