Serves: 5
Total Calories: 43

1/2 cup water
3 tablespoons white vinegar, distilled, or more to taste
3 tablespoons ketchup
3 tomatoes, fresh, ripe, peeled and seeded, then finely chopped
2 onions, medium, thinly sliced
1/2 green bell pepper, stemmed, seeded, and thinly sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
3 tablespoons parsley, finely chopped fresh Italian (flat-leaf)
1 to 2 jalapeno chiles, , seeded and diced
salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Combine the water, 3 tablespoons vinegar, and the ketchup in a small nonreactive saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Add the tomatoes, onions, bell pepper, garlic, parsley, and chiles. Reduce the heat to low and simmer gently until the sauce is thick and flavorful, 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and taste for seasoning, adding salt and black pepper and more vinegar as necessary the sauce should be highly seasoned. Serve at once, or store, tightly covered in the refrigerator, for up to 3 days.

Makes about 2 cups

Nutritional Facts:

Serves: 5
Total Calories: 43
Calories from Fat: 0

More Recipes from the The Barbecue Bible Cookbook:
A Simple Harissa
A Simple Javanese Dipping Sauce
A Simple Tamarind Barbecue Sauce
Asian Pear Dipping Sauce
Basic Barbecue Sauce
Basic Chimichurri
Basic Vietnamese Dipping Sauce / Nuoc Cham
Bengali Mango-Tamarind Barbecue Sauce
Carolina Mustard Barbecue Sauce
Catalan Vinaigrette
Charred Tomato Sauce With Pomegrante Molasses / Khashkesh
Classic Teriyaki Sauce
Coriander Sauce
County Hot Sauce / Molho da Companha
Dry Chimichurri
Dutch West Indian Peanut Sauce
Elida's Honey-Guava Barbecue Sauce
French West Indian "Dog" Sauce / Sauce Chien
Garlic Sauce
Georgian Pickled Plum Sauce / Tkemali
Ginger-Plum Barbecue Sauce
Hoisin-Chile Sauce
Hot And Sweet Mint Sauce
Indonesian Ketchup / Ketjap Manis
Jake's Turkish Coffee Barbecue Sauce
Lemon-Honey Sauce With Garlic
Nicaraguan Tomato Sauce / Salsa Marinara
North Carolina Vinegar Sauce
Peanut Chile Dipping Sauce
Portuguese Hot Sauce / Piri-Piri
Preserved Lemon Harissa
Red Chimichurri
Red Mis Barbecue Sauce
Romesco Sauce
Tamarind Dipping Sauce
Thai Peanut Sauce
Vietnamese Apple And Shrimp Sauce / Mam Nem
White Miso Barbecue Sauce