Many children love ketchup, but not all adults approve of this addiction. Indeed, in addition to tomatoes, a store ketchup contains a lot of sugar, preservatives, and spices that are harmful to the children's stomach. There can only be one way out of the situation - prepare the ketchup yourself.
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You will need
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- 500 g of tomatoes
- 1 clove of garlic
- ½ onion
- 1 tsp vegetable broth
- 20 ml vinegar
- 1 tbsp Sahara
- salt
- pepper
- spices to taste
Instruction manual
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Ketchup is one of the classic sauces for meat, french fries and other dishes. It tastes best from tomatoes ripened in the sun. Home-made ketchup can become a real hit at the upcoming grill party, in addition, you will be absolutely sure of its naturalness and will be able to tell anyone who wants to know which products are part of the sauce.
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First, peel the tomatoes from the skin, the easiest way to do this is by blanching. Dip the tomatoes alternately in boiling water for 2-3 seconds and immediately send them to a bowl of cold water. You just have to pry off the skin with the tip of a knife, and it will be removed quite easily.
3
Cut the tomatoes into 4 parts, place in a blender, turn them into mashed potatoes. If you don’t have a blender, you can simply skip the vegetables through a meat grinder.
4
Pour the resulting mass into a saucepan, put on a slow fire, boil for 10 minutes with constant stirring.
5
Grind garlic and onions with a blender or meat grinder, mix them with vegetable broth, vinegar, 1 tbsp. salt and pepper to taste.
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Add the resulting mixture to a pan with boiling tomatoes and continue to cook the mashed potatoes over a very low heat for the next hour. Do not forget to constantly stir the future ketchup to prevent it from burning to the bottom of the pan.
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In principle, nothing more needs to be done. Turn off the heat, let the ketchup cool, remove the first sample. Perhaps the taste will seem a little unusual to you, because this is just the base, prepared with the addition of a minimum amount of spices. If you like a more spicy option, you can add your favorite spices to the base - from basil to a couple of drops of Tabasco sauce.
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Prepare small clean jars, transfer ketchup into them, close the jars with lids.
Useful advice
Since there are no preservatives in homemade ketchup, it is better to store it in the refrigerator and use it for several days.
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