Steemit Challenge Season 27 Week 01 - Homemade Tomato and Garlic Ketchup

Hi everyone, I hope you are all well. I am here with a very great homework for you, your herbalist. It is about making ketchup at home. People all over the world like to eat ketchup. Sometimes it is spread on slices, sometimes on bread, sometimes on shawarma, sometimes on burgers. I thought why not teach you how to make ketchup at home and also tell you its herbal benefits so that you can benefit from making herbal ketchup according to your health. So here I would like to thank the Steemit team who gave me this opportunity so that I can teach you about every kind of ketchup.

Ingredients

Ingredient	Quantity
Fresh Tomatoes	1kg
Grape vinegar	Half Cup
Salt	To taste
Garlic	6 cloves
Red Chili	To taste
Sugar	Half Cup

Let's Start

First, I took fresh tomatoes and washed them thoroughly with water so that if there was any dirt on them, it would be cleaned.I needed garlic salt, sugar, Tomatoes and vinegar to make garlic ketchup, so I gathered all these ingredients in one place to make garlic herbal ketchup.

I chopped the tomatoes into small pieces with a knife and then put them in a pot so that they could be cooked. Before lighting the fire, I also added half a cup of water to it so that the tomatoes would boil easily.

After that, I added garlic to it and put the lid on the pot so that the steam could not escape and the tomatoes would cook quickly and the garlic would also boil at the same time. This whole process took five to seven minutes and it was ready.

Now it was ready to boil, I put it in a juicer blender and grinded it. Now it was completely ground. After that, I filtered it so that the peel and seeds were separated. Now you can filter it with a sieve or mesh cloth.

I put the filtered solution back into the pot, placed it on a low heat, and added salt, red chili powder, and sugar to taste.

Now I added half a cup of vinegar to it and kept stirring it slowly with a spoon so that it does not burn from the bottom and I also kept the flame low. In this way, a perfect thick ketchup was ready in eight to ten minutes, as you can see.

Your best herbal ketchup with garlic is ready. You can see that when it cools down, I put it in a bowl, then a jar, which I washed well with hot water and dried. Then I put this ketchup in it and made the lid airtight. Now this ketchup is safe for six months. You can use it.

Herbal benefits of Garlic Tomatoes ketchup

• Garlic ketchup has many benefits. Here I am explaining the important benefits so that you can get the benefits by making this ketchup.

• Garlic has antibacterial effects and tomatoes contain vitamin C, so together they strengthen the immune system and fight diseases.

• This ketchup balances blood pressure and cholesterol levels, which keeps people safe from heart diseases.

• This ketchup provides energy to the body and removes physical weakness. You can use it according to your health.

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Homework

1. Prepare Homemade Herbal Ketchup with Garlic. Share complete step by step process. At the end share the handwritten username and date with Ketchup.(6)

2. Did you face any difficulty in the preparation of the ketchup at home?(2)

3. What do you say about the taste and freshness of the homemade ketchup which you have prepared as compared to the market ketchup?(2)

Rules for Participation

• Publish your post on your blog or in any community.

• Post must be #steemexclusive.

• Post must be free from plagiarism and AI.

• Use your country tag such as #pakistan.

• Use course specific tag, #ketchup-s27w1 so that I can find your post easily.

• Use your own images.

• Post the link of your post under the comment section of this post.

• Share your post on social media such as X.

• Invite at least 3 of your friends. Resteem the contest post.

• Use # burnsteem25 tag only if you have set 25% to @null

• The participation schedule is between Monday, September 29, 2025 to Sunday, October 05, 2025.

• Use the title: Homemade Tomato and Garlic Ketchup

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At the end of each week 6 best entries will be nominated to get additional support from SC01.