Homemade Tomato and Garlic Ketchup

Assalamualaikum my fellows I hope you will be fine by the grace of Allah.

I am participating in the homemade tomato garlic ketchup by @afzalqamar. I hope I will learn and showcase my work through this challenge.

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

I will prepare homemade herbal ketchup with garlic and I will follow this process:

• I will cook tomatoes with garlic until they become soft

• I will filter them

• I will add other necessary ingredients and cook it until it becomes thick.

I am starting it step by step.

I have taken tomatoes and garlics. These are the basic things to make ketchup. I have taken sugar, salt and chilli powder. These things will be used in my ketchup recipe.

I took 250+ grams tomatoes. I washed tomatoes. I cut tomatoes in small pieces. It will help to cook them quickly.

I already cut tomatoes to pieces. I put tomato pieces in the container. I started cooking it on low flame. It is a garlic ketchup. I added garlics with tomatoes.

Water is a universal solvent. I added two spoons of water in it. Water is necessary to avoid burning. I cooked it continuously. The tomato pieces were becoming soft. Garlics were also becoming soft.

After cooking for some minutes on light flame tomatoes and garlics became soft. They were cooked completely. I blend them in the blender to make a mixture. The tomatoes were soft already. It took some seconds to make the blend.

The blender blend everything in good way. Now it was the step to filter the mixture. It is necessary to filter it to remove the peels of tomatoes. I filtered and extracted liquid of mixture.

After filtering and extracting liquid I started final steps. I added liquid in container. I added white vinegar to get sour taste. It also helps for the long term preservation. I added required salt and sugar in the container. I added red chilli powder.

I added all required ingredients in liquid. I started cooking it again at low flame. Everything became mixed well in it. It became thick. I stopped heating it and left there. I placed it for sometime so that it could become cool and thick.

Homemade tomato with garlic ketchup is completely ready. It is thick and has a good colour. In the final stage when I was cooking it was looking that uncooked more but when it became cool it was looking good.

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Did you face any difficulty in the preparation of the ketchup at home?

I was afraid at first in making ketchup at home. But I followed the step by step recipe by teacher. I followed each step and successfully made ketchup at home. I did not face any difficulty.

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

It is very fresh. I have made it with my hands and I feel confident on it's purity and freshness as compared to other. The taste is also good. It is not better because of my first experience. I hope I can bring a better taste next week.

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I want to invite @alexanderpeace, @thaizmaita, @afrinn.