Thick homemade ketchup with starch from tomato juice for the winter

Tomato ketchup is a popular and truly versatile tomato sauce. He has been loved by both adults and children for a long time. I suggest that during the ripening season of tomatoes, prepare it for the winter using this simple and quick recipe with a photo.

The highlight of the workpiece is that we will prepare the sauce from tomato juice with starch. With a little work, you can enjoy natural thick ketchup until the next harvest.

Ingredients:

2 liters of tomato juice;

15 table. lies. Sahara;

6 hrs. salt;

7 cloves of garlic;

½ tsp ground red pepper - for hot sauce (to make the sauce less spicy, you can reduce the amount of ground red pepper to ¼ tsp);

0.5 tsp black ground pepper;

6 table. tablespoons of vinegar (9%);

2 table. spoons of potato starch.

How to cook ketchup with starch for the winter

Make it your favorite way.

Add sugar, salt, chopped garlic to boiling juice.

Cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes.

Add red and black ground pepper, vinegar and continue to cook the mixture for another 30 minutes.

Dissolve the starch in a glass of cold water and gradually pour into the boiling sauce, stirring constantly so that lumps do not form.

Bring the mixture to a boil and boil for 7-10 minutes, stirring constantly.

Pack the finished tomato sauce in dry, roll up the lid.

This recipe can be finished, but I want to tell you that using the method described above, you can cook different flavors of ketchup. The basis of this ketchup is tomato juice, salt, sugar, vinegar, starch. But the main composition can be supplemented with other products and spices to your taste. For example, replace garlic with onions or add neither. Experimenting, you will definitely find your "golden", the most delicious recipe that will meet only your taste preferences.

At the same time, please note that hot sauce always seems sharper (before you try it for spiciness, cool it in a spoon), and after adding starch, the taste of the workpiece is a little “smoothed out” and becomes less spicy.

And if there is not enough ketchup for the whole winter, it does not matter. The main thing is to stock up on a sufficient amount of tomato juice with starch. From these staples, you can make delicious natural homemade ketchup at any time of the year.