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 love ketchup too and in the past have made my own but now can’t have tomatoes due to sensitivities and tomatoes being part of the nightshade family doesn’t help my inflammation 🙁
So… I make Apricot ketchup! It tastes a little exotic and if you add in allspice and a touch of cinnamon (to this recipe) it really does taste like ketchup. Oh, and of course no HFCS!!
Sounds good!!
Wow yum! I’m imagining it’s a cross between apricot jam and apricot sauce? both are amazing. Can you tell us the recipe?
Looks like a great recipe and I have been looking for a better tomato ketchup recipe lately, you read my mind 😉 .
Just wondering, if you know, how long this would keep for?? Want to know how much to multiply the recipe 😉 ..
Mine is still in the fridge, so I really don’t know how long it lasts yet. At least two days.
I LOVE ketchup and I love this! Thanks so much for posting!
As store bought ketchup contains a lot of sugar… Wouldn’t adding Stevia make this taste more “real”?
Sorry, I’d accidentally lost that part out of the recipe when I was moving things around in the post. Fixed now!
This is awesome! Thanks so much for posting I cannot wait to try it!!! I used to put ketchup on everything when I was younger too…heck I still do somedays lol
@Tanya: Tomatoes (especially when roasted) are actually pretty sweet already. You’d be surprised.
@ChocolateCoveredKatie: I am glad I am not the only nut who makes her own ketchup! Roma tomatoes work pretty well also (especially for stewed tomatoes—yum!). I mostly take the lazy way out and use tomato paste (super-concentrated, just sweet enough tomato-y taste) and sometimes doctor it up with a bit of vinegar, a few spices or occasionally a SLIGHT pinch of stevia (although usually doesn’t need it)
I’m going to have to try this with all the tomatoes in the garden right now. Is it okay if you don’t use grape tomatoes, I’m not sure what tomatoes my mom planted in the garden? Thanks for the great sugar free ketchup recipe, now I can eat ketchup again!
I don’t see why other tomatoes wouldn’t work, but I’ve only tried the grape/cherry ones.
I used to do the same thing! I hated meat as a kid and smeared my chicken and everything in tons of ketchup. I still love ketchup, but I haven’t had to eat meat for 15 years.
Can’t wait to make this ketchup! Thanks for sharing.
Well surprisingly I am not a big fan of ketchup, but do LOVE bbq sauce, so I will definitely make it as a base, thanks!
I recently made homemade ketchup and to get the sweet heinz taste try using plums for part of the recipe (i can’t remeber from memory what ration of tomatoes to plums probably 4:1 ish) it really does make the difference in terms of sweetness!