Ketchup with starch: a recipe for the winter

You can buy in the store everything that your heart desires, including ketchups with a wide variety of additives and ingredients. However, are you always sure of the quality and safety of the composition of these sauces? It is much better to cook it at home, and to taste it will not be inferior to its store counterpart. We offer you a recipe for ketchup with tomato starch. Using the basic option, in the future you can change it to your preference.

What products will be required?

The main component of ketchup is, of course, tomatoes. If you see in the recipes the addition of any other vegetables (bell pepper, apples, plums, etc.), then this is, rather, a free variation on the theme of tomato sauce. So, to prepare ketchup you need to take:

• 2.5 kg of tomatoes (ripe and meaty);
• 0.5 cups of granulated sugar;
• 1 tbsp. l sea ​​salt;
• 4 tbsp. l vinegar 9%;
• 2 tbsp. l potato starch ;
• 20 peas of black pepper;
• 1 tbsp. l coriander grains;
• 2 pcs. cloves;
• dried herbs (basil, dill, parsley, etc.) - according to taste preferences.

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Our recipe for ketchup with starch for the winter is quite simple and does not take much time. Pre-take care of the dishes, pre-cook two large cooking pots, a few bowls, ladle, iron sieve for wiping.

In order to save ketchup for the winter, you need banks. They also need to be prepared in advance. Wash the glass containers thoroughly and steam them (for 0.7 - 15 minutes, 0.5 - 10 minutes). It is enough to boil iron caps for 1-2 minutes.

Cooking steps

This recipe for ketchup with starch at home differs in the elemental composition of the products and the simplicity, speed of preparation.

1. Ripe tomatoes need to be washed and the stalks removed, then chopped - approximately as shown in the picture.
   
2. Put the tomatoes in a pan with a thick bottom and cook on the fire (average) for about twenty minutes. Note the addition of water or other liquid is not required!
3. The resulting steamed mixture should be wiped through an iron sieve with small cells. Using a blender is acceptable, but the first option is better, the only way you can separate the tomato seeds from the total mass.
4. Next, the resulting mixture must be boiled for a sufficiently long time, or prepare ketchup with starch. The recipe suggests this particular option. Boil the mass for about an hour.
5. Then add the remaining ingredients and diluted in a small amount of tomato juice (cold) starch.
   
6. Warm up the ketchup for another 10 minutes, and then pour it into the cans and roll up. Wrap them in a blanket and leave until cool.

In such a classic version of ketchup, you can make your own adjustments. For example, in the form of additional spices or, for example, garlic, ginger.

Homemade ketchup: winter recipe with starch No. 2 (with bell pepper)

Based on the proposed combination of basic products such as bell pepper, tomatoes, vinegar (the amount is adjusted to taste). Starch, in turn, will help you make it the right consistency, like in a store. Everything else (spices and spices is exclusively a matter of taste, but do not underestimate them. So, the recipe for homemade ketchup with starch requires the following ingredients:

• 1 kg of ripe tomatoes, you can even ripen: it is good if it is a special variety of meaty tomatoes with a minimum amount of juice and seeds;
• 0.5 kg of bell pepper (red);
• 5-10 cloves of garlic;
• 50 g of granulated sugar;
• 1-2 tbsp. l salts;
• 20 ml of 9% vinegar (or natural apple, wine);
• 1 tbsp. l potato starch;
• to taste spices (caraway seeds, cloves, bay leaf, hot red pepper and black pepper, paprika, etc.).

Cooking steps

1. Tomatoes must be washed thoroughly, then remove the stalks. Cut them into large slices, dividing into 4-6 parts. You can use the entire illiquid, which remains after the best fruits went to marinades and pickles.
2. Ketchup with starch, the recipe of which we offer you, involves the use of red bell pepper, this will add saturation to the color of the final product. Yellow and orange fruits are acceptable, but the shade from this will change. Peppers should also be washed and the stalk and entrails removed along with the shifts.
3. Put the vegetables in a saucepan and simmer for half an hour. The cover must be removed.
4. While cooking, scoop 2-3 soup ladles with pulp and juice secreted. Discard the mass on a sieve and cool the filtered portion.
5. After half an hour of cooking, the vegetables should boil and turn into pulp. The mass must be thoroughly wiped through an iron sieve into a second pan with a thick bottom, in which ketchup will be boiled.
   
6. Cut garlic cloves into small circles and put x in a homemade gauze bag along with spices. This is a distinctive feature that this ketchup recipe with starch for the winter has. Dip the bag into the tomato mass and continue to cook it over medium heat.
7. After 20 minutes, add salt, sugar and vinegar. Pull out the bag of spices, it will no longer be needed.
8. Pour potato starch into a bowl with cooled tomato juice and mix with a fork until smooth. Then pour the mass into hot ketchup in portions. Pay attention to this stage: if you go too far with starch, then you risk getting jelly. The proportions in this case are strictly individual, we only give an approximate ratio.
9. Boil ketchup for about five minutes and pour into sterilized jars, roll up the lids. Wrap them in a warm blanket or old coat and leave until cool.

The secrets of good ketchup

Firstly, tomatoes. If you want to cook a good ketchup with starch (our recipe or any other), then they must be of the best quality. Of course, it’s ideal when you grow them in your own garden or buy them in the market. Tomatoes must be ripe and red, yellow and orange varieties are also acceptable, but the color of ketchup will suffer from this.

Secondly, the required density. This is what distinguishes ketchup from regular tomato sauce. There are two ways to achieve it: boiling or using a natural thickener - starch.

Thirdly, the use of natural preservatives. This is mainly vinegar, so it will be just great if you choose grape or wine, rather than synthetic. In addition, substances that prevent the formation of molds are contained in cinnamon, cloves, mustard, apples. Therefore, these components are found quite often.

Such ketchup with starch, the recipe of which we brought to you, turns out to be much more useful compared to its store counterpart. It contains exclusively natural ingredients and can be safely used for the children's menu.