Ketchup from tomato paste homemade

Step 1: How do you make ketchup from tomato paste at home? Prepare all the ingredients.

Step 2. How to make a tomato base for ketchup? In a pot with a thick bottom, pour water and put it on the stove, turn on a strong fire and bring the water to a boil. In boiling water, lay out tomato paste and, thoroughly stirring, dilute the tomato paste in water. The liquid mass should become a uniform bright red color. Continuously stirring, pour salt and sugar sand into the tomato mass, mix.

Step 3. How to add onions and spices to a tomato base? Clean the onions and very finely fit in cubes. Put the crushed onions in a pan, bring the sauce to a boil again, and then reduce the fire to a minimum. Add to the pan black ground pepper and cloves. Pour 1 tablespoon of 9% vinegar. Stir it up.

Step 4. How much ketchup do you want? Leave the sauce to cook on the stove for about 45 minutes, stirring occasionally. The fire should be medium and the ketchup should gurgle quietly. You don't have to close the pan with a lid.

Step 5. How to cut greens and garlic for ketchup? Fresh dill wash under water, dry and cut finely. Clean the garlic teeth from the husks and pass through the press. After 45 minutes of cooking ketchup, add the crushed dill and garlic to the pan, stir and boil the ketchup for another 3 minutes.

Step 6. How do you get ketchup ready? Turn off the fire, add bay leaf and mustard to the pan, cover the pot with a lid and let the ketchup infuse for about 7 minutes. After 7 minutes, open the lid, pour the remaining 0.5 tablespoon of 9% vinegar, stir.

Step 7. How do you make ketchup more homogeneous? Cool the sauce, remove the bay leaf and cloves. Pour the sauce into a bowl of blender and grind it at high speed. Bon appetit!