If any of you are thinking “It’s Friday and you’re posting a recipe for ketchup? What’s wrong with you?!” you’re totally right! I usually post some fancy drink or cocktail recipe on a Friday, but today it’s just not happening. Although after the week I’ve had, I could certainly do with a drink. Instead, I’m sharing a great recipe so you can make your own ketchup at home, with a fraction of the sugar and no ingredients you can’t pronounce. It only takes a handful of items to make, too, so you’ve got no excuse.
I decided to make my own ketchup because I wanted to make my own BBQ sauce. That totally makes sense, right? No? Well, I love love LOVE homemade BBQ sauce and one of the major ingredients in that is ketchup – which I had run out of. Make sense now? Good. Just so you know, if you decide to make your own BBQ sauce using this ketchup as a base, you’ll be in heaven. Seriously.
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup (140g) tomato paste
- 1/4 cup red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon Worcester sauce
- 1 cup water
- 6 teaspoons brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
- 1/2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 1/4 teaspoon mixed spice
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients together in a saucepan and simmer over a low heat for around 30 minutes until the consistency is like ketchup. Store in the fridge in a sealed container.
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Hi, I'm Nicky and I'm totally, completely and utterly obsessed with everything food. Through Pink Recipe Box, I want to share my passion with you and encourage you to get into your kitchen and make your own creations.
Is it sad that I never even knew you could make your own ketchup. Yeah, that’s sad. This will be good to have on hand. Pinning now!
Thank you so much for the recipe. I want to start making my own condiments without the ingredients that I cannot pronounce.
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Wonderful, I hate the corn syrup is store bought ketchup, this is great! Thanks so much for sharing at Wednesday’s Adorned From Above Blog Hop.
Debi and Charly @ Adorned From Above
Bethany @ Whistle and Ivy
This is perfect we (hubby and I) were just saying how annoying it was that their ws high fructose corn syrup in ketsup thanks!
Amber
Could you please tell me what is the mixed spice? where do you find it? If I were to make a large batch, do you know if this would be a water bath or pressure cooker? Thank you so much
Hi Linda,
If you don’t have mixed spice, you could always use the same amount of five spice.
I haven’t got any experience using a water bath or a pressure cooker, so I can’t advise you on this one, sorry!
Thank you. I’m starting to make as many of my household staple and condiments as possible. May I ask though, what is mixed spice? I don’t think I’ve ever seen it in the spice aisle (though I’ve never looked)
Hi Lisa,
Mixed spice is usually used for sweet stuff (like desserts) but I find it really works in this recipe.
It’s really similar to pumpkin pie spice, so you could substitute that :)
thank you so much for sharing this, can’t wait to try it!!
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Awesome! Thanks for the great recipe!
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You’ve been featured! Thanks so much for sharing with me.
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Stopping in from Mom’s Test Kitchen Monday – I’ve tried a homemade ketchup before and it didn’t turn out so great. Yours looks like a reliable recipe – pinned to share :)
I just realized that I didn’t have any ketchup to go on my turkey meatloaf and that is the only way my kids will eat it. So knowing that my grocery budget for this week was spent I remembered this pin from a week or so ago and decided to try it, I am so glad I did because it came out great. I will be making batches of this…. can anyone tell me the shelf life though???
Hi Sheik,
I’m so glad it worked out for you!
I stored mine in the refrigerator for about 2 weeks and it was fine.
That’s the longest I’ve ever stored it, so I can’t confirm that it can be stored longer.