Homemade Preservative-free Tomato Ketchup
Homemade Preservative-free Tomato Ketchup

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, homemade preservative-free tomato ketchup. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Homemade Preservative-free Tomato Ketchup is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Homemade Preservative-free Tomato Ketchup is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Homemade ketchup is easy to make and healthier than store-bought ketchup. This ketchup is made with fresh tomatoes and contains zero preservatives, no corn syrup, or artificial colors. Tomato ketchup is by far one of the most popular, and versatile sauce in the entire world.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have homemade preservative-free tomato ketchup using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Homemade Preservative-free Tomato Ketchup:
  1. Get 5 kg Tomatoes (any size)
  2. Prepare 80 grams Onion
  3. Prepare 20 grams Garlic
  4. Make ready 1 Bay leaf
  5. Prepare 1/3 tsp Grated ginger
  6. Prepare 40 grams Sugar
  7. Get 30 grams Salt
  8. Get 15 ml Vinegar
  9. Make ready 1 dash ☆Pepper
  10. Prepare 1 dash ☆Red chili pepper
  11. Take 1 ☆Cinnamon (optional)
  12. Prepare 1 ☆Allspice (optional)

Creamy, spicy and tangy, this Tomato Ketchup is as perfect as the ones you get in the market, or even better because of the fresh flavour that is unique to homemade products. This homemade tomato ketchup will make you wonder why you ever bought a ketchup bottle from the store! Made with fresh tomatoes, and without any preservatives, it is delicious, healthy, and super easy to make. Use as a spread, a dip, or even in cooking curries!

Steps to make Homemade Preservative-free Tomato Ketchup:
  1. Take the stems and leaves off the tomatoes and wash well. Cut the base of the stem out of the tomatoes, and cut into wedges. (If you're using cherry tomatoes, you probably won't need to cut them.)
  2. Put the cut up tomatoes in a blender and purée. Purée enough so that you can't see the skins or the seeds anymore.
  3. Put the puréed tomatoes from Step 2 and 1/2 the sugar into a pot, and start simmering. Start on medium heat, and when it starts to thicken, turn down to low heat. Skim off the scum diligently.
  4. When the purée has reduced to about half its original volume, purée the onion and garlic and add it with the bay leaf to the pot. Continue simmering.
  5. Keep cooking until the sauce falls with a heavy plop from a spatula when you scoop it up. Add salt, the remaining sugar, grated ginger, vinegar and the ☆ spices to season.
  6. Pour the piping hot ketchup into sterilized jars right up to the rims. Screw on the lids, turn the jars over, and leave for 10 minutes.
  7. After 10 minutes, put the jars in 50°C lukewarm water. After a while, add cold water little by little to cool the jars. By cooling the jars quickly, the red ketchup won't turn brown.
  8. However, don't cool them too fast or the jars will crack.
  9. Sterlize the jars. You can do this in boiling water, or pour boiling water over them. I sterilize the jars by microwaving dry ones for 3 minutes at 700 W, and disinfect the lids with alcohol.
  10. I made a half-batch this time. It filled 3 jars with the white lids. Store in a cool, dark place. Store opened jars in the refrigerator.

Homemade ketchup is much better made with fresh tomatoes. I have tried a few different recipes like that and have found that the ketchup didn't taste like the store-bought varieties at all. Homemade sugar free ketchup for those on a special diet or just want a healthy ketchup without sugar and preservatives. After many batches of trying to make homemade sugar-free ketchup, thank goodness I finally came up with one I liked. After the jars of green tomato ketchup cool, check seals by pressing the middle of the lid with finger.

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