shaziya'srecipes: Homemade tomato sauce/tomato ketchup recipe

Recently prepared this tasty and healthy tomato sauce at home it was so good as store bought ones.....to be frank it is tasty than store bought jars!!!!! Everyone at my home liked this tomato ketchup so much....

making homemade sauce is so simple and easy......it takes time to cook tomatoes but process is so simple.

You need very few ingredients to make this homemade tomato sauce.i request you try this recipe atleast once..... Follow the same recipe to make perfect homemade tomato sauce.

I added pinch of red food color in this recipe if you don't want to add food color you can skip it.

Give this a try and let me know how it turns out for you.

Ingredients :

Red tomatoes : 1 kg
Sugar : 3/4 cup
Vinegar : 1/2 cup
Salt : 1/2 tea spoon
Chilly powder : 1 tea spoon

To make potli/pouch :

Ginger : 1 inch piece
Diced onion : 1
black pepper corns : 1 tea spoon
cumin seeds : 1 tea spoon
cardamom/elaichi/yalukalu : 2
cinnamon sticks : 2

Method :

First wash and wipe tomatoes with cloth

Now chop tomatoes and put them in a pan

Now take a small muslin cloth put all potli ingredients and make a pouch

Now put this pouch in tomatoes and cook on low flame for 1 hour or till tomatoes are well cooked

Now take out the pouch and squeeze the excess juice from pouch and put pouch a side

Now let tomato mixture cool completely and blend into a fine puree

Now take a sieve and strain the puree and discard the waste

Now put strained pulp in clean pan then add sugar,vinegar, salt,chilly powder and mix well

Now again put pouch in tomato pulp and start cooking by stirring continuously

Cook for 5 to 6 minutes then take out the pouch and squeeze excess juice from it and Cook it then switchoff the flame

To check it's done or not put one spoon of sauce in plate if there is water around the sauce cook for some more time and switch off the flame

Let the mixture cool completely and store in airtight glass containers.

Now yummy homemade tomato sauce is ready!!!!!