Recipe for tomato ketchup for 10 liter
- Onion chopped 12g g
- Garlic 8g
- Cloves 3 g
- Spices 4 g
- Mace 0.8 g
- Cinamon 8g
- Red chillies powdered 4 g
- Salt 100 g
- Sugar 300 g
- Vinegar 250 ml
- Spices (cardamom, black pepper, cumin) 4 g
- Slight variation can be made depending upon market demand
- One third of sugar should be added initially at the start of boiling to protect red color
- The rest of sugar should be added when the ketchup is almost ready
- Salt bleaches the tomato color so should be added towards the end of boiling
- Vinegar should be added when the ketchup thickness sufficiently
- All the spices should be packed in muslin cloth and dip in the juice during boiling
- At the end the bag is taken out and squeezed to the ketchup
- Boiling till whole mass becomes one third or thick enough and added rest of sugar and salt
- Sodium benzoate is used as preservatives: 285 mg per kg of finished products
- Hot ketchup if filled is sterilized bottle and then sealed immediately and then pasteurized and allow cool in room temperature