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Healthy Homemade Ketchup Recipe

26 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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In this YouTube cooking segment, the host challenges the notion that commercial ketchup contains only 23% real tomatoes, with the remainder made up of acidity regulators, sugar, and thickening agents. To create a healthier alternative, the chefs prepare a tomato-less ketchup using bell peppers, pumpkin, carrots, water, jaggery, dry ginger, star anise, hing, oats flour, lemon juice, and rock salt. The process involves simmering the vegetables, adding spices and sweetener, blending, thickening with water and oats flour, and finishing with lemon juice and salt. The finished ketchup is served with baked fries, receiving positive reactions from the tasters. The video is the first episode of the "Healthy Swaps" series, and the full recipe details are provided in the caption.

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Can you guess what percentage of tomato ketchup is actually real tomatoes? Only 23%! Then what's the rest of it? Acidity regulators, sugar, and thickening agents. That's why we gave our Satvik chefs the challenge to develop homemade ketchup without any of these nasty ingredients. Could they do it? Let's find out! Let's start with some— Bell peppers!
Along with the bell pepper, add pumpkin, carrot, and 1/2 cup of water. Cover and let it cook for 5 to 6 minutes. Then add jaggery, dry ginger, star anise, and hing to the boiled veggies. Stir well for another 2-3 minutes. Now blend these veggies and cook until it thickens a little. Let's add a bit more water and oats flour for more thickening. After 2 minutes, switch off the stove, add lemon juice, rock salt, mix it, and it's done. Time for a little tasting. Yummy! I served this tomato-less ketchup with some baked fries, and everyone was pleasantly surprised. That was episode 1 of Healthy Swaps. Detailed recipe is in the caption.