Recipe For Red or Ketchup Sauce

Red or Ketchup Sauce is usually made out of ripe tomatoes. Its basic ingredients include tomatoes, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper, cloves and cinnamon.
Of course, sometimes onion, celery, and other spices are used in the recipe.

Ingredients:

24 ripe tomatoes
1 large onion
1 large red sweet pepper
1 1/2 dessertspoon celery seeds
1 dessertspoon mustard seeds
1 dessertspoon pepper, allspice
1 cinnamon stick
1 glass brown sugar
1 1/2 glass apple vinegar
1 tablespoon paprika

Procedure:

Peel the tomatoes and chop up the flesh. Also do the same with onion. Cut the sweet pepper and remove the seeds and chop as well. Put them all in a proper dish and set on low heat till soft. Then transfer into the mixer or blender and mix into a puree.
Put the puree back into the dish and heighten the heat to thicken so that its amount lowers
On a clean piece of cloth, put celery seeds, mustard seeds, pepper, and cinnamon stick and tie it firmly. Put the tied cloth inside the thick puree. Sprinkle with salt and brown sugar.
Reduce the heat to low and keep stirring 25 minutes. Then add in apple vinegar as well as paprika. Keep stirring to have a thick sauce. Remove the wrapped cloth. To sterilize the jar, put it in boiling water till hot. Then pour tin the sauce but do not fill onto the top. Leave some room.
Close the lid and place carefully in boiling water. Allow to cool. Push the lid to make sure it is closed tightly. If not put in the fridge and consume the sauce immediately.
If it is pressed finely you can keep in cool, dark place 1 whole week till settled.
The sauce can be preserved in cool and dark places for 1 year. If you opened the lid, place it in the fridge.

Interesting Point:

Did you know that you can substitute 1 glass brown sugar with 1 glass white sugar or 1 1/2 tablespoons honey.

Did you know that:

Ketchup sauce is used for giving a special flavor to sandwich and fast foods. Also it is applied for meat dishes and fried potatoes.
The sauce is not always made out of tomatoes. In the old days, it was prepared out of mushrooms or fish marinated in salt and other spices.

Calories:

Ketchup Sauce is of low calorie; each 100 gram of the sauce contains 100 kilocalories.