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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Definitely have to pin this and try it. Thanks for sharing!
I actually hated ketchup until I was about 12, I only ate mustard. But now I LOVE ketchup! soooo good!
What a coincidence! I might just make this for lunch tomorrow!
I was eating my dinner this evening (yummy quinoa stuffed red pepper with kale and cheese- yep, only vegetarian..) and my sister was using ketchup with her homemade chicken nuggets and chips.
As per usual I look at the ingredients of everything, I read the Heinz ketchup ingredients: Tomatoes, sugar and additives and spices…
Anyways, yummy looking forward to making yours 🙂
Wow you posted this just in time- I’m almost out of ketchup 😉
I am so exited about this recipe! Thank you Katie!
My mom (bless her!) was a terrible cook and I had to use ketchup to cover up the non-existent taste of her food…they had the same pepper shaker (unused) for 20+ yrs! My mom just didn’t season anything! Ever! Such a boring culinary life!
Oddly enough, I too, am vegetarian (not vegan yet), now. Interesting how that happens!
I love ketchup – I was the kid who put it on absolutely everything. Now I don’t eat it as much, but fries without ketchup are unacceptable.
Love this idea!
ive actually never had ketchup. strange, i know.
You know, it’s funny, I’ve never thought of making homemade ketchup! I guess I think of it more as an unnatural food (one that I definitely eat!), but of course you can make the real deal! I’d love to try a homemade version- I bet it tastes great. Thanks for the recipe!
im going to try it without the sweetner, i figure the tomatoes roasted and onions roasted should make it sweet enough, really trying hard to stay away from sugar even stevia, bought the ingrediants, just waiting for it to be cooler here before turning my oven on for 45 mins at 400 even with the airconditioner on high its 73 degrees in here…so will wait till later on tonight, so excited, hubby and i over last week have started eating differently and we are trying no dairy, no sugar,we dont eat red meat and only carbs we are eating is daves killer bread and sprouted grain, and sweet potatoes, he wants sweet potatoe fries and was just saying this morning how he missed ketchup…you posted this right in time…thank you
Gosh, I might as well drink Trader Joe’s organic ketchup! The stuff is amazing. But I’ve never made my own, and I think you’re recipe is probably more amazing. 🙂
I used ketchup to smother the flavor of beans when I was a kid. Now I love beans and don’t particularly like ketchup! But my kids and hubby all love it, so I will have to try this. I am trying to cut out all added/processed sugars from our diet as much as I can, so this is perfect. Now to see if they approve!
I just made this, added in some jalapeno’s to make spicy ketchup. It tastes very good! Can’t wait to taste it when it’s cold!
I can’t wait to try this. When I was young I smothered hot dogs in ketchup bcause I really disliked the taste of them.
I’m SOOOOO in love with ketchup! Put in on everything! 🙂 Your homemade recipe looks great-I should really try it out-I’m sure it’d save me a bunch of money!
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my fiancé eats ketchup with everything! thanks for the recipe, i’ll try that out for sure!!
Fabulous idea! Makes for a great use of all those tomatoes this time of year!