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Ditch the bottled ketchup: Here is your guide to homemade, clean, vegan tomato ketchup recipe without artificial preservatives and colours.
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Making your own perfectly sweet, and utterly delicious tomato ketchup at home is a rewarding experience that puts you back in charge of what goes into your food.
And the best part? Commercial ketchups rely on preservatives to give them their long shelf life. By making your own, you skip these chemicals entirely, opting for a fresher, cleaner taste.
This is the big one. Commercial ketchups rely on preservatives to give them their long shelf life. By making your own, you skip these chemicals entirely, opting for a fresher, cleaner taste. With homemade, you can control the sweetness to your preference, using natural alternatives like maple syrup or agave, or even reducing it significantly.
Most store-bought ketchups are sugar bombs. Real Ingredients: You know exactly what’s going into your ketchup – ripe tomatoes, aromatic spices, and natural sweeteners. Dietary Needs: For vegans, it ensures no animal-derived ingredients like some obscure processing aids. Cost-Effective: Especially when tomatoes are in season, making a large batch can be surprisingly economical.
Does it taste better than your favourite bottled tomato ketchups? But its definitely healthier, wholesome, and an excellent homemade condiment especially for those who love to slather ketchup on anything and everything.
Ingredients You’ll Need This tomato ketchup recipe focuses on simple, wholesome ingredients that are easily available: Ripe Tomatoes: The star of the show! You can use fresh or good quality canned crushed tomatoes.
The star of the show! You can use fresh or good quality canned crushed tomatoes. Spices: A carefully selected blend of spices like ginger, bay leaf, dried red chilli, black peppercorn creates the classic ketchup profile.
A carefully selected blend of spices like ginger, bay leaf, dried red chilli, black peppercorn creates the classic ketchup profile. Wash all the vegetables.
Dice all the vegetables into bite size chunks.
Pressure Cook
Add diced tomato, beet, bell pepper, onion, celery, ginger, garlic, whole spices, and water in a pressure cooker. This step is optional but highly recommended for that classic ketchup texture.
Stir in the apple cider vinegar, sugar, salt. It should reduce by about one-third and have a rich, concentrated tomato flavour.
Taste the ketchup. Add more salt, pepper, sweetener, or vinegar as needed to achieve your perfect balance of sweet, tangy, and savoury. Remember, flavours intensify as it cools.
Let the tomato ketchup cool completely at room temperature before transferring it to clean, airtight jars or bottles.
Storage
Because this tomato ketchup contains no artificial preservatives, its shelf life is shorter than commercial varieties.
Store it in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 month. Adjust sweetness, tang, and saltiness to your liking.
The most important step! Print Pin Prep Time: 15 minutes minutes Cook Time: 1 hour hour Total Time: 1 hour hour 15 minutes minutes Servings: 500 gram Calories: 1 kcal Author: Hina Gujral Pressure Cooker
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Seive Filter Cook Mode Prevent your screen from going dark 1x 2x 3x Ingredients ▢ 500 gram tomato
▢ 1 medium size onion
▢ 1 small size beetroot
▢ 1 small size red bell pepper
▢ 6 garlic cloves
▢ 1 inch ginger
▢ 1 inch celery stalk
▢ 1 tablespoon black peppercorns
▢ 4 dried red chilli
▢ 1 bay leaf tej patta
▢ 1 tablespoon salt
▢ ¼ Cup water
▢ ¼ Cup brown sugar
▢ 2 tablespoon apple cider vinegar Instructions Peel beetroot, onion, and ginger. Dice all the vegetables into bite size chunks.
Add diced tomato, beet, bell pepper, onion, celery, ginger, garlic, whole spices, and water in a pressure cooker. You can do the same in an instant pot pressure cook mode for 8 minutes.
Discard bay leaf. Without using additional water, blend them to a smooth puree. This removes any lingering seeds or skin bits.
Stir in the apple cider vinegar, sugar, salt. Add more salt, pepper, sweetener, or vinegar as needed to achieve your perfect balance of sweet, tangy, and savoury. This helps us grow and reach more food lovers like you.,
