Here are THREE good reasons you should try this homemade and healthy ketchup recipe:
- No high-fructose corn syrup, and you get to control how much–if any–sugar goes in.
- Homemade really does taste so much better than bottled ketchup.
- With just 4 basic ingredients, this healthy ketchup couldn’t be easier to make!
Once you try homemade ketchup, you’ll never want to buy store-bought ketchup again.
When I was little, my mom joked that we should’ve bought stock in Heinz for how much ketchup I ate.
Looking back, I think the issue was that I really never liked the taste of meat.
So I’d put a ton of ketchup on my burgers and then they wouldn’t taste like meat… they’d taste like ketchup! 
Healthy Ketchup
Loosely inspired by a recipe in Better Homes and Gardens
- 3 cups cherry or grape tomatoes (450g)
- 1/4 cup sliced onion (35g)
- scant 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (or white vinegar) (12g)
- 1/4 tsp salt
- sweetener of choice, to taste (or omit for unsweetened ketchup)
- 1/8 tsp powdered ginger (omit if desired)
- optional pinch garlic powder or minced garlic
Healthy Ketchup Recipe: Preheat oven to 400 F. Roast first two ingredients 40-45 minutes, or until the tomatoes are shriveled and most of their liquid is absorbed. Then blend with all other ingredients. Let cool before putting in the fridge, and for thickest results leave uncovered a few hours even after putting in the fridge. (Recipe yields 345g, or about 1.5 cups.)
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I’m actually really excited you posted this…i LOVE ketchup.. it grosses the boyfriend out that i put it on literately everything..even my salads haha
My husband is just like you – LOVES ketchup. Like, piles and piles of it! I can’t wait to make this recipe for him 🙂
I will admit, the sound of ketchup on salad sounds odd, but lettuce with ketchup tastes divine. I have also been known to dip potato chips and tortilla chips in ketchup…
I see you say it “can be sugar free!” but I don’t see sugar in the ingredients….Am I blind? What you’ve posted IS sugar free 🙂
Somehow, I’d left it out of the recipe ingredients! So weird, because I know I wrote it. Must have lost it somehow when I was moving things around while writing the post… Thanks for letting me know. It’s fixed now :).
Great! I never made my own ketchup before, though I intend to do it 😛
Ketjap (sweet soy-sauce) and ketchup are my favourite sauces!
The knife in the first picture, looks exactly like the ones we have (I live in the Netherlands), lol :).
Wow, that looks like a delicious ketchup recipe! Though I rarely use ketchup, I may try out this recipe, just to experiment:) It’s not as though I HATE ketchup; I just prefer using other condiments:) We normally buy the Hunts ketchup made without high-fructose corn syrup, but I am sure that homemade ketchup would be less expensive…
This is pretty much how I make mine too 🙂
I’m so excited! I have been talking about making homemade ketchup a lot lately, but didn’t have a recipe. Now I can!
Thanks for this. I have a homemade ketchup recipe but it came out ver watery, more like salsa. I think roasting like you said may be the trick.
I will be trying this for sure! I love ketchups of all types (I recently tried blueberry!)
I am a serious ketchup-addict,but I’ve never tried making my own… I should change that,maybe.
How long do you think this will stay fresh in the fridge?
Mine is still in the fridge, so I really don’t know how long it lasts yet. At least two days!
Vinegar is a natural preservative, a better one than salt, actually. I imagine it would keep pretty long. Mine is still delicious after 5 days.