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Homemade Ketchup Recipe (and Sugar-Free!)
Our most popular condiment, ketchup contains far too much added sugar to be considered healthy. Instead, make your own! It’s surprisingly easy, tasty and nutrition-packed with this homemade ketchup recipe.
Prep 5 minMakes 10
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Why it works: Our most popular condiment, ketchup contains far too much added sugar to be considered healthy. Instead, make your own! It’s surprisingly easy, tasty and nutrition-packed with this homemade ketchup recipe.
Ingredients
BatchesOriginal yield: 10
Print recipe →- soaked sun-dried tomatoes, soaked for 2 hrs1 cup
- apple cider vinegar¼ cup
- raisins¼ cup
- onion powder¼ teaspoon
- sea salt1½ teaspoon
- water, as needed to facilitate blending
Method
- Soak the sun-dried tomatoes for at least two hours, then drain.
- In a blender, add tomatoes, vinegar, raisins, onion powder and sea salt.
- Blend on high, adding water as needed to facilitate blending and increase creaminess.
- Serve immediately or refrigerate.
Swaps & notes
Serve immediately or refrigerate. It will keep for at least a week.
Our most popular condiment, ketchup seems like an innocent addition to our burger or to accompany our sweet potato fries, right? Well, it's pretty full of sugar and sodium. Per tablespoon, ketchup contains 4 grams of sugar and 190 milligrams of sodium. Four grams of sugar may not seem like much, it all of it comes from added sugar rather than the natural sugar found in tomatoes.
Instead, make your own! It's surprisingly easy, tasty and nutrition-packed with this homemade ketchup recipe.
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Healthy Ingredients
- Sun-dried tomatoes: like tomatoes, they're full of the powerful antioxidant lycopene
- Apple cider vinegar: can keep blood sugar in check and even amp up weight loss
- Raisins: when not overconsumed, raisins are a concentrated source of energy, electrolytes, vitamins and minerals
- Sea salt: rich in trace minerals (it's difficult these days to get enough trace minerals from the foods we eat due to the lack of nutrient-rich soil)
How to Make Homemade Ketchup
You'll be shocked to find out how easy it is to make your own ketchup. First, soak the sun-dried tomatoes for at least two hours in order to soften them up. Drain them after time's up.
(You can also make your own sun-dried tomatoes … in the oven! Grab a pint of cherry tomatoes. Preheat oven to 250°F. Slice the tomatoes in half and put them open side up on a baking sheet lightly greased with coconut oil. Bake for 3 hours. That's it!)
Next, simply add the drained tomatoes, vinegar, raisins, onion powder and salt to a power blender or food processor. Blend on high, adding a little bit of water to help blending and increase the creaminess of the texture.
Serve immediately or refrigerate. It will keep for at least a week.
With Fresh Tomatoes
Want to use fresh tomatoes? Then you need to switch it up a bit. Get 2½ pounds of tomatoes and slice them up, then add them to a stock pot along with the rest of the ingredients. Cook at medium heat for 30 minutes, then add to a blender (or use an immersion blender). Then add back to the pot and cook the mixture down for another 30 minutes or so.
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