The inclusion of heat-treated tomatoes in the composition of ketchup is a useful idea, since during the heating process the content of the useful component of lycopene increases.
Anyway, now ketchups are popular all over the world, we love and enjoy eating these sauces with different dishes of meat and fish. However, the variants of sauces offered to us by the food industry are not very satisfactory to us, which is understandable: they include sugar, starch and other unpleasant additives that ensure a long-term preservation of the product in an unchanged stabilized state.
Delicious and useful ketchup (without additives) can be prepared at home, we'll tell you how to do it.
To begin with, we should buy a quality tomato paste, which means that it should not contain vinegar, sugar and salt. Tomato paste - in itself an excellent preservative.
Home ketchup from tomato paste - recipe
Ingredients:
- quality tomato paste - 200 ml;
- garlic - 2-5 denticles;
- pepper burning red (better fresh);
- salt.
Preparation
Garlic and red hot pepper are carefully interpreted in a mortar with a small amount of salt. We combine garlic-pepper-salt mixture with tomato paste diluted with cold boiled water to the consistency of sour cream. Thoroughly mix. We serve with meat and fish dishes.
In the composition of ketchup, you can also include lemon juice - it will improve the taste and smell of sauce and keep the color (this is in case you did not use the whole portion of the sauce immediately, the leftovers can be stored in the refrigerator in a closed
It was, so to speak, the basic version of the recipe for tomato homemade ketchup. The composition of the sauce, if desired, can also include: olives, fragrant fresh herbs, ground dry spices, as well as fresh sweet pepper, pumpkin pulp, juices and pulp of various other vegetables and fruits. Adding sugar is undesirable - it is not useful.
For preparation of ketchups and other similar sauces it is convenient to use a blender or other modern kitchen devices.