To prepare a delicious ketchup for the winter, you need not only ripe tomatoes, a good mood, but also the right recipe for homemade ketchup. And then this wonderful tomato harvest will take pride of place not only on the everyday, but also on the holiday table. Believe me, you will lick ketchup fingers, it will become your favorite sauce for meat, fish, and spaghetti.
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You will need
- - tomatoes - 5 kg
- - onion - 2 kg
- - garlic - 1 head
- - red hot pepper - 200 grams
- - mustard -1 teaspoon
- - black pepper - to taste
- - salt to taste
- - sugar - 1 tablespoon
- - vinegar - 6% - 100 grams
Instruction manual
1
Tomatoes are the basis for making ketchup. Wash ripe tomatoes, cut into pieces and put in aluminum dishes. Put on a slow fire and boil them. After cooling, wipe through a colander. Do not use a meat grinder for this if you want the mass to be homogeneous.
To prepare homemade tomato ketchup for the winter, it is best to take a cream tomato variety. They make a very thick tomato.
2
Wash and chop the onions, garlic and hot peppers. This can be done on a blender or meat grinder. Put the prepared tomatoes in a pan, add chopped vegetables, black pepper, allspice, mustard, half salt and sugar.
3
Put ketchup on fire. After the mass has cured to half the volume, add the rest of the sugar and salt and boil until they dissolve. Then stop heating the ketchup and add the vinegar, stirring it thoroughly. Pack it hot in prepared jars. It is more convenient to close homemade tomato ketchup in small jars of 200-300 grams.
note
If you are not allowed to eat sugar, you can make homemade tomato ketchup without it. In any case, you get ketchup - you will lick your fingers.
Useful advice
It’s easy to make homemade tomato ketchup for the winter. Do some work steps in advance. For example, prepare jars or a base of tomato.