Artificial red caviar from ketchup

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   NECESSARY PRODUCTS: water, you can take mineral water without gases or fish broth; ketchup or tomato paste, you can make caviar from a glass of tomato juice, but then water will not be needed; agar-agar 1.5 teaspoons or gelatin, but the amount of it to take 4 times more, i.e. already 6 teaspoons spoons; salt to taste, how more or less salty caviar is more like; sunflower oil is preferably odorless; we also need a disposable syringe without a needle.

2. Step 2:

   

   PREPARATION: An hour before cooking caviar, sunflower oil should be put in the freezer. Pour a glass of water into a small saucepan or saucepan, add ketchup or tomato paste there, mix everything carefully with a spoon so that the ketchup dissolves well, add a little salt to taste, mix, then add agar-agar, mix everything well.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the saucepan on medium heat, stirring to bring the contents to a boil, remove from heat 5-7 seconds after boiling.

4. Step 4:

   

   Pour the mass from the saucepan into a separate bowl and leave to cool in the room to room temperature.

6. Step 5:

   

   After the liquid has cooled down, you need to mix it well, put the resulting mass into the syringe and drip a little drops into a glass with sunflower oil.

7. Step 6:

   

   Since sunflower oil is cold and the caviar liquid is at room temperature, the droplets instantly turn into small balls, settle to the bottom of the glass and imitate caviar exactly, and sunflower oil does not allow the eggs to stick together.

8. Step 7:

   

   As soon as the oil in the glass has come to the edge, you need to strain the finished eggs with gauze or a sieve, and then also work out the rest of the caviar mass.

9. Step 8:

   

   Well, that's it - the caviar is ready! It does not differ in any way from the one that is sold in the store, only various harmful chemical additives are also added to the store caviar. Such caviar can be used to decorate a festive table - sandwiches, salads, etc. That's how easy and simple red caviar is made. In the same way, you can make black caviar, only take soy sauce as a basis.