Tomato ketchup

Tomato ketchup

I have been meaning to make this ketchup for a long time but just hadn't got around to doing it. I used the recipe from Thermobexta's blog which can be found here. It is easy to make - the tomatoes are roasted with the capsicum and garlic first. They then need to cool so you can handle them - to peel off the skins. I did have a bit or trouble getting the skins off the capsicums, they may have needed a little longer in the oven. So I did leave a little bit of the skins on those.

Roasted tomato, capsicum and garlic

The whole lot then gets cooked in the Thermomix with the spices and seasonings. By the time it is done with its first cook, its all pretty much broken down. The honey is then added and it is cooked again. I like that honey is used as the sweetener - shop bought sauces always have a lot of refined sugar added to them, so making it yourself you can add alternate sweeteners.

Pureed ketchup

Once the honey is cooked into the sauce, it is then blended until its a nice smooth consistency. It is pretty close to shop bought ketchup. The kids enjoyed it with their homemade chips for dinner.

Happy thermomixing!