easy tomato sauce recipe | tomato ketchup recipe | homemade tomato sauce
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.