Homemade Tomato Sauce/Ketchup
Cooking instructions
* Step 1
Rinse the tomatoes well in water.
* Step 2
Slice the top eye parts of the tomatoes.
* Step 3
Take a pan or pressure cooker.
* Step 4
Put the tomatoes and keep on high flame by adding salt, sugar and chilli powder.
* Step 5
Keep on stirring at regular intervals.
* Step 6
It will start leaving water.
* Step 7
When tomatoes soften, switch off the gas and allow it to cool.
* Step 8
When the mixture is slightly warm, blend the puree in the blender.
* Step 10
With the help of the strainer, which is not very fine, strain the puree very well directly into the saucepan or pressure cooker.
* Step 11
Keep the pressure cooker or saucepan with tomato pulp on the gas.
* Step 12
In a muslin cloth, place all the whole garam masalas ; ginger and garlic and make a potli and place it in the pan /cooker.
* Step 14
All the flavours of Garam masalas, ginger and garlic will come in the sauce.
* Step 15
After one boil, cover and keep on slow flame.
* Step 16
Stir at regular intervals.
* Step 17
When the pulp starts thickening and reaches a ketchup consistency, heat 1tsp of water in a small bowl, add 1/4 tsp of Sodium Benzovate to the hot water, stir so that it dissolves properly.
* Step 18
Pour the solution into hot tomato ketchup.
* Step 19
Give one boil, switch off the gas ; add vinegar and adjust the taste.
* Step 22
Remove the potli, discard it and pour tomato sauce / ketchup in the sterilized jar or bottle.
* Step 23
Preparation of sterilized bottle or jar......
* Step 24
First rinse the jar in a large saucepan
* Step 25
Heat water till it is reached boiling point......means it has boiled.
* Step 26
Immerse the jar and it's lid in the water.
* Step 27
Continue to boil the water along with the jar for 8-10 mins.
* Step 28
Remove the jar with the help of a clean tong and place the jar inverted on a thick towel on the kitchen table top.
* Step 29
Let the jar dry naturally.
* Step 30
Tomato ketchup /sauce is ready to serve with hot pakoras.
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