My Salsa for Canning

Delicious salsa to use all those garden tomatoes for!

• Ready In: 1 hr 30 mins
• Yields: 12 pints

Ingredients

• 15  lbs tomatoes
• 1  cup  diced onion
• 1  cup  diced green pepper
• 1  cup  diced  red pepper
• 2  diced garden salsa bell peppers
• 1  cup  diced bavarian  hot pepper
• 12  garlic cloves, minced
• 1⁄4 cup chili powder
• 2  tablespoons cumin
• 1  cup vinegar
• 1⁄2 cup lime juice
• 1⁄4 cup salt
• 2  tablespoons red pepper flakes

Directions

1. Blanche 5 ponds of tomatoes to peel and chop them, leaving seeds inches.
2. Run 10 pounds of tomatoes through "sauce maker" to de-seed and peel skins off.
3. Chop all peppers and onions.
4. Add tomato juice, chopped tomatoes, peppers and onions to large stock pot. While the juice is warming up add garlic, vinegar, lime juice, salt, red pepper flakes, chile powder and cumin to it. Cook over medium heat, bringing to boil. Simmer for 10 minutes. Tast.
5. put into sterilized pint sized jars and process for 20 minutes in water bath.