Ketchup will lick your fingers for the winter from tomatoes

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   To prepare ketchup according to the proposed recipe, take fresh ripe tomatoes (it is better to take fleshy varieties, they will have to be boiled less, I have a variety called pickled tomatoes in the supermarket), you will need more onions from vegetables, garlic can be put at will - it should not prevail in this case and to stay in the shade, completely unnoticeable,

2. Step 2:

   

   So you can not put it at all, there is no garlic in the desired recipe, but if you add one tooth to the whole mass, it will not spoil the picture. Rinse the tomatoes well under the tap and be sure to drain them, let the water drain completely and dry or blot them with a towel. Then chop the tomatoes and put them in a saucepan.

3. Step 3:

   

   Add similarly chopped onion and garlic clove, if you can't imagine ketchup without it.

4. Step 4:

   

   Put the mass on the fire and boil over medium heat until the vegetables soften.

6. Step 5:

   

   In the modern version, the boiled tomato mass can simply be punched with an immersion blender, which I did - it's easier and faster. In the Soviet recipe, the mass had to be wiped through a sieve - but the result was worth it: the ketchup turned out not only fragrant, but also very delicate in consistency.

7. Step 6:

   

   Next comes another half-forgotten operation - all the spices, the most important of which is celery seed (you can do without it, but if you have celery seeds, put them without hesitation - the aroma will turn out excellent!), so, put all the spices in a gauze bag, tie it firmly with a thread and put it in the boiling sauce. Cook together with spices for 20-30 minutes so that they have time to give their flavor.

8. Step 7:

   

   Then catch the bag and throw it away, and pour the boiling ketchup into sterile jars and immediately roll it up, send it "under a fur coat". In this case, the cans had to be boiled together with the lids due to the general design.