Simple, practical, and full of everyday flavour, tomato sauce recipe | tomato ketchup recipe | homemade tomato sauce is a vegetarian international sauce made with ripped tomatoes, kashmiri red chili powder / lal mirch powder, and sugar in about 35 minutes. The recipe lays out the ingredients and each cooking step clearly, so you can adjust seasoning, texture, and serving size for your own kitchen.
Recipe Snapshot
- Prep time: 5 minutes
- Cook time: 30 minutes
- Total time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 1 bowl
- Category: sauce
- Cuisine: international
Ingredients
- 6 ripped tomatoes
- ½ tsp kashmiri red chili powder / lal mirch powder
- 3 tbsp sugar
- salt to taste
- 3 tbsp vinegar
Method
- firstly, blanch the tomatoes in enough water. take well ripped tomatoes.
- further cover and boil for 3 minutes or till the skin of tomatoes starts to separate.
- cool down the tomatoes completely, and transfer to the blender.
- puree the tomatoes without adding any water.
- using a filter, extract the tomato puree separating seeds and skin of tomatoes.
- further, stir and mix well.
- boil the mixture well.
- make sure to stir occasionally, to prevent from burning.
- further continue to boil for 10 minutes.
- add in ½ tsp chili powder, 3 tbsp sugar and salt to taste.
- keep stirring till the tomato puree thickens.
- also cook the mixture till the water is evaporated completely, and turns thick.
- and in 3 tbsp vinegar, as they act as preservative.
- mix well and check for seasoning.
- finally, transfer the tomato sauce or tomato ketchup once cooled completely.
Kiyaan Singh’s Kitchen Note
Keep this recipe as a working base: cook once as written, then adjust spice, texture, and serving style for your own table.
