Homemade tomato paste ketchup

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the ingredients. Buy a 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 put it on the stove, turn on a high heat and bring the water to a boil. Put the tomato paste in boiling water and, carefully kneading with a wooden spatula, dilute the tomato paste in water. The liquid mass should become homogeneous of a bright red color.

3. Step 3:

   

   Continuously stirring, pour salt and granulated sugar into the tomato mass, mix, the loose ingredients should completely dissolve.

4. Step 4:

   

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

6. Step 5:

   

   Then add spices to the pan: ground black pepper and cloves. Pour in 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar. Mix it up. Leave the sauce to cook on the stove for 45 minutes, not forgetting to stir the contents of the pan from time to time. At the same time, the fire should be medium, and the ketchup should gurgle. It is not necessary to close the lid of the pan.

7. Step 6:

   

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

8. 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 brew for another 7 minutes. After 7 minutes, open the lid, pour in the remaining 0.5 tablespoons of 9% vinegar, mix.

9. Step 8:

   

   Ketchup is ready, it remains only to cool it, remove the bay leaf and cloves. But if you want to get a more homogeneous consistency of tomato sauce, I recommend pouring the cooled ketchup into a blender and grind it at high speed. From this amount of ingredients, 500 grams of homemade ketchup turned out.