You can buy ketchup at the store, or you can not only cook at home, but also stock up on your favorite sauce for the winter. In this case, you will be sure of the naturalness of the product.
It is necessary
- - Tomatoes - 5 kg.
- - sugar - 1 tbsp.
- - cloves (seasoning) - 4 buds
- - greens - 2 bunches
- - coriander - 15 peas
- - black pepper (peas) - 30 pcs.
- - salt - 1 tbsp. l.
- - vinegar 9% - 4 tbsp. l.
Instructions
Step 1
Choose ripe tomatoes for ketchup, wash by changing the water several times. Cut into pieces, pass the tomatoes through a meat grinder, set the resulting mass to boil over low heat for about one hour. Make sure that the mixture does not burn. Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon. You can do otherwise: boil the tomato slices for twenty minutes, and then rub the resulting mass through a sieve and then boil it until thickened.
Step 2
Fold into cheesecloth: peppercorns, coriander, cloves, herbs. Tie the ends to form a pouch. Add salt, sugar and vinegar and seasonings in cheesecloth to the tomato mass. Simmer for another ten minutes over low heat. Remove the seasoning from the ketchup.
Step 3
Wash prepared jars, heat them in the oven, or steam. If you use an oven, then you need to put the jars only in a cold one, you need to heat it at a low temperature. If they overheat, the glass may burst when pouring the ketchup. After seaming the jars or bottles of ketchup, cover with a warm blanket, leave to cool. You can store it in the refrigerator, cellar or on a cool balcony.
