Rub tomatoes or twist through a meat grinder: how to properly prepare delicious homemade ketchup

When you have a lot of homegrown tomatoes, be sure to make ketchup from them. The sauce you make from natural ingredients will be much tastier and healthier than store-bought, and it's perfect for pizza and other favorite dishes. But to ensure that the ketchup has the right taste and consistency, you should follow the following technology.

Food blogger Iryna Petrenko(irinapetrenkofood) shared her tips on how to make delicious homemade ketchup for the winter on her Instagram page. First, the tomatoes need to be twisted through a meat grinder and then grated through a sieve.

Ingredients:

• 5-5.5 kg of tomatoes (you need 4 liters of juice)
• 500 g of sugar
• 100 g of salt
• 100 g of vinegar
• 1 tsp of black pepper
• 1 tsp. ground bay leaf
• 0.5 tsp of cinnamon
• 6 tbsp. with a small slide of starch

Method of preparation:

2. Add salt, sugar and vinegar.

3. Put the juice to boil for 40 minutes.

4. When the time is up, add pepper, cinnamon and bay leaf.

5. Pour the starch into a bowl, add water a little at a time until you can stir the starch.

6. How do you know if there is enough water? If there is not enough water, you will not be able to stir the starch.

7. Pour the starch into the juice and stir thoroughly for 1 minute with a whisk.

8. Turn off and pour into jars.

9. Turn upside down with the lids and wrap well.

10. It turns out 7 jars of 0.5 liters and one more small jar to make pizza immediately.

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• Tomato adjika
• Tomato salad for the winter