Rotel Tomatoes - Homemade Copycat

Submitted by Miss Annie

"Make your own Rotel Tomatoes to suit your taste. You can make it hot or mild. Source: Now Your Cookin'"

 

• Ready In: 40mins
• Ingredients: 3
• Yields: 1 Quart

ingredients

• 1 1⁄2 quarts peeled chopped seeded tomatoes (about 4lbs)
• 12 jalapenos or 12 hot chili peppers, diced
• 1 teaspoon salt

directions

1. Place in 4 quart saucepan, and simmer until reduced to 1 quart.
2. (Measure 1 quart water into saucepan in advance, and mark on outside of pan, to help you judge).
3. The cans at the grocers are 10oz in size, so freeze in 1 cup portions.
4. This way you can adjust the hot peppers to suit yourself, and making small batches is so easy!
5. Remember, freezing makes the peppers hotter.

Reviews

[Tara1183]

I am not sure what actual Rotel tomatoes should taste like but these are great. I used them in a recipe the other that called for Rotels and you cant buy them here so I made this recipe. Worked great, they would be great on hand for chili, casseroles or spaghetti sauce.

 

[shellbee]

We cannot buy rotel tomatoes where I live so this is perfect for me. Love the fact that it is freezable. Thank you!

 

[Chef Dudo]

Have never seen Rotel tomatoes here in a can so you can imagine that I was very pleased to find this recipe. So easy to make and great taste. Used some for a pastasauce, a casserole and a chili. One batch I just had as it was, as a sauce over rice one day when I was too hurried to make anything "elaborate". This will certainly be made again when I run out of my freezer-stored batches, want to have it on hand. Thanks for posting.

 

[Janie from TX]

I didn't realize Rotel would be so simple to make. My husband eats a 'store bought' can almost every day. He says it's better than rotel. A great way to use up summer tomatoes. I did can instead of freezing ( Water bath for 15 minutes). Also when cooking down the juice, I just cooked until it looked right. It was perfect.

 

[ravenbard]

I am searching for a recipe to make RoTel tomatoes, since we use so many cans of RoTels in our cooking but this recipe seems to be lacking in ingredients. I would think it would have more than tomatoes and jalapenos in it, so I will continue my search unless anyone here has a tried and true recipe to share.