Homemade tomato paste ketchup

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 15 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Prepare all ingredients. Buy high-quality tomato paste, since the taste and quality of homemade ketchup will depend on its choice. Use table vinegar 9%.

2. STEP 2

   

   Pour water into a saucepan and place it on the stove, turn on high heat and bring the water to a boil. Place the tomato paste into boiling water and, stirring thoroughly with a wooden spatula, dissolve the tomato paste in the water. The liquid mass should become homogeneous and bright red.

3. STEP 3

   

   Stirring continuously, add salt and granulated sugar to the tomato mass, stir until the bulk ingredients are completely dissolved.

4. STEP 4

   

   Peel the onions, rinse under water and chop very finely into cubes. The less you chop the onion, the more homogeneous ketchup you will end up with. Place the chopped onion in a saucepan, bring the sauce to a boil again, then reduce the heat to low. Continue stirring constantly.

5. STEP 5

   

   Next, add spices to the pan: ground black pepper and cloves. Pour in 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar. Stir. Leave the sauce to cook on the stove for 45 minutes, remembering to stir the contents of the pan from time to time. In this case, the heat should be medium, and the ketchup should gurgle. There is no need to cover the pan with a lid.

6. STEP 6

   

   Rinse fresh dill under water, dry and finely chop with a knife. Peel the garlic cloves and pass through a press. After 45 minutes of cooking the ketchup, add chopped dill and garlic to the pan, stir and cook the ketchup for another 3 minutes.

7. STEP 7

   

   Turn off the heat, add the bay leaf and mustard to the pan, cover the pan with a lid and let the ketchup sit for another 7 minutes. After 7 minutes, open the lid, pour in the remaining 0.5 tablespoon of 9% vinegar, stir.

8. STEP 8

   

   The ketchup is ready, all that remains is to cool it, remove the bay leaf and cloves. But if you want a more uniform consistency of tomato sauce, I recommend pouring the cooled ketchup into a blender and grinding it at high speed. This amount of ingredients yielded 500 grams of homemade ketchup.

Comments on the recipe

Yura

29.09.2023

4.9

There is a recipe for homemade ketchup made from tomato paste and without vinegar.

Natalia M

29.09.2023

4.9

We ran out of ketchup at home, and in our family we can’t imagine dinner without it) Therefore, I urgently found a recipe for homemade tomato paste ketchup on the website and started preparing it. I made half a portion, reducing the proportions using the site’s calculator. I added the spices directly to the water and tomato paste, boiled it a little and added the onion. I tried to chop the onion as finely as possible. I simmered it until soft. Then I added dill and boiled to the desired thickness. For spices: I replaced the prepared mustard with dry mustard, added additional paprika and took more salt. It seemed to me that we could use a little less water in order to prepare ketchup faster) I didn’t use a blender, the onion pieces didn’t bother us. The ketchup turned out very tasty, spicy, aromatic. It goes great with spaghetti and cheese.