Steemit Challenge Season 27 Week 03 - Homemade Ginger Chili 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
Ginger, finely chopped	2 Tbsp
Red Chili	To taste
Sugar	100 grams
Green Chili finely chopped	1 Tbsp
Cooking oil	2 Tbsp
Water	Half Cup

First of all, to make ginger chili tomato ketchup, I had all the ingredients listed. I took one kilogram of tomatoes, put them in a mesh basket, washed them thoroughly with water, and also washed the knife to remove any dirt on both.

I washed them well in my hands and now I have cut these tomatoes into small pieces as you can see.

Now I put it in a pot and put it on the stove with fire and also added half a cup of water to it so that it boils quickly and turned the fire on low. After about 7 to 10 minutes, the tomatoes became soft and they were now ready. At the same time, I kept stirring with a spoon so that it did not stick to the bottom of the pot. Now I was going to take it off, so I turned off the stove and took it off low.

Now it had cooled down and I put it in the jug of the juicer and pressed the button. After a while, this perfectly fine solution was ready.

Now I took a separate vessel, added two spoons of cooking oil in it and put it on the fire. When the cooking oil got hot, I added ginger and green chillies which I had finely chopped and kept stirring it slowly with a spoon. After some time it turned brown and I turned off the stove.

Now I filtered the solution that I had in the jug through a mesh cloth.Due to filtering, the tomato skins and seeds had separated, so now I had a perfectly clear solution.

Now I washed the pot thoroughly and poured the solution back into it and lit the fire on the stove and added half a cup of grape vinegar that I had and started stirring it slowly with a spoon.You must be wondering why Afzal Qamar always adds vinegar to tomato ketchup. Actually, adding vinegar keeps the ketchup fresh for at least six months and makes it taste better. That's why I add vinegar.

Now I have added salt and red chili powder which I had with me. You can also add these things according to your taste.

Now I have added 100 grams of sugar which I had. You can add according to your taste. If someone has diabetes, they can make this without sugar so that it does not have any bad effects on their health.Now I kept it on low flame and kept stirring it slowly with a spoon. After some time, it started thickening and now it was completely ready. Very tasty, delicious and full of benefits. When you make it, you will also find its taste delicious because the taste of ginger always seems delicious, but some may not like it.

Now the ginger chili tomato ketchup is ready. To make a design on it, I cut the ginger into long strips and also cut the green chili into rounds to make a flower-shaped design. I hope you will like this design and try to make it because it is very easy and because of this, its beauty has also increased.

Finally, I washed a jar thoroughly, dried it, put ketchup in it, and saved it, writing the name and date on it.

Benefits of Ginger Chili Ketchup

• Ginger plays a very important role in digesting food. It enters the stomach and eliminates acidity and makes food digestible.

• It benefits body pains, especially joint pain, muscle pain and plays a very important role in general physical health.

• Ginger increases appetite, thins the blood, and is therefore very beneficial for heart health and balances the amount of cholesterol in the body.

• Its taste is sharp and fragrant. In addition, it is also beneficial in colds and coughs.

• Green chilies are rich in antioxidants that fight diseases and keep the body healthy. In addition, they provide protection against colds and various types of infections.

• And the benefits of tomatoes have already been developed, which you are well aware of.

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Homework

• List all the ingredients used in making ginger chili tomato ketchup along with their correct quantities. (2 marks)

• Write the complete step-by-step method of making ginger chili tomato ketchup. (4 marks)

• Present your final homemade ketchup to make it look attractive and well-prepared. Also use your name tag and date written on a paper. (2 marks)

• ( 2 )marks will be allocated based on the quality and originality of the images as well as creativity.

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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-s27w3 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.

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

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• The participation schedule is between Monday, October 13, 2025 to Sunday, October 19, 2025.

• Use the title: Homemade Ginger Chili Ketchup