Thick homemade ketchup with starch from tomato juice for the winter

The highlight of the preparation 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. lie Sahara;

• 6 tsp. 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. ground black pepper;

• 6 table. spoons of vinegar (9%);

• 2 table. spoons of potato starch.

How to make ketchup with starch for the winter

Do tomato juice in my most favorite way.

Add sugar, salt, chopped garlic to boiling juice.

Cook over low heat for 10-15 minutes.

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

Dissolve the starch in a glass of cold water and gradually pour it into the boiling sauce, stirring constantly so that no lumps form.

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

Pack the prepared tomato sauce into dry sterile jars, roll up the lid.

The recipe can end here, but I want to tell you that using the method described above, you can prepare 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 suit your taste. For example, replace garlic with onion or add neither one nor the other. By experimenting, you will definitely find your “golden”, most delicious recipe that will meet only your taste preferences.

At the same time, please note that hot sauce always seems spicier (before testing for spiciness, cool it in a spoon), and after adding starch, the taste of the preparation “smoothes out” a little and becomes less spicy.

And if you don’t have enough ketchup for the whole winter, it doesn’t matter. The main thing is to stock up on enough tomato juice with starch. These staple ingredients can be used to make delicious, natural homemade ketchup at any time of the year.