Tomato sauce / ketchup

Home Made Tomato Sauce / ketchup

Ingredients - Tomato sauce / ketchup

Apple tomato - 6

Sugar - 100 g

Salt - pinch

Garlic - 6 cloves

Cinnamon, cloves, cardamom - few

Lemon juice - 2 tbsp.

Corn flour - 1 tsp

Method - Tomato sauce / ketchup

1. Tie cinnamon, cloves, cardamom in a clean white cotton cloth and keep this bundle aside.

2. Grind tomato, garlic, to fine puree. Now strain this tomato puree.

3. Shift this tomato puree to a kadai, add chilli pdr, pinch of salt, sugar. Let it boil for 8 to 10 minutes on high flame. Add cinnamon cloves cardamom bundle also.

4. After 5 minutes of boiling remove cinnamon bundle, add corn flour water ( dissolve corn flour in a tbsp. or 2 tbsp. of water ) again let it boil for 3 to 4 minutes. Turn off the stove once it reaches ketchup consistency.

5. After cooling it down, add lemon juice and mix it well.

6. You can store this tomato ketchup / sauce for 6 to 7 days ( in refrigerator )