Homemade Sugar-Free Ketchup Recipe – Slightly Indulgent Mondays
November 22, 2009 { }
Welcome to Slightly Indulgent Mondays – fabulous food made healthier! Please link your healthier recipe below. Your recipe doesn’t have to be sugar and gluten free, just healthier in some way. If you’re new, you can read the guidelines here.
A change – starting next week, Slightly Indulgent Mondays is moving to Tuesday. I have long felt that there’s just too many things going on here, so this way I can post my submission separate from the carnival. I’ve also decided to stop the weekly give-aways, at least for now. With the holidays coming, my time is more crunched than usual.
A couple of my favorites from last week include a Hearty Chickpea and Vegetable Curry and Raw Chocolate Pudding. If you haven’t seen those recipes, stop by and see if you don’t agree with me.
My submission:
Store bought ketchup has high fructose corn syrup and corn syrup in it – and I can’t eat either. For years I just didn’t eat ketchup, and then I started making it from roasted tomatoes. Talk about a process. I decided the effort for two cups of ketchup just wasn’t worth it. But when I came across a simple recipe for CrockPot ketchup that I was able to modify to be sugar-free, I was thrilled. This is the tastiest ketchup I’ve ever made – it really brought back childhood memories of McDonald’s french fries.
I’ve been making BBQ sandwiches with my ketchup…it’s been so long since I’ve had good barbecue. I even got a little teary eyed.
The recipe yields about 4 cups – I divide it between 2 pint mason jars. One goes in the freezer, the other in the fridge. It will keep for a couple of months.
Reminder:
Holiday Food Fest’s next event is Thursday, December 3rd – and it’s right here. Link up your Cocktails, Mocktails, and Appetizers. Or, just stop by and say hello. I’ll have a great give-away from Honeyville – a 5 pound bag of almond flour and a Honeyville gift assortment including their fabulous flax seeds.
Homemade CrockPot Ketchup
yields about 4 cups1 (28 oz) can organic tomato puree
1 small onion, coarsely chopped
1/2 cup apple cider vinegar
1/4 cup organic brown rice syrup
1/4 teaspoon ground allspice
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground mace
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger
1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
kosher salt to taste
fresh ground black pepper to tastePlace all ingredients except kosher salt and black pepper into a medium CrockPot
(3 – 4 1/2 quarts). Stir well. Cover and turn on high for 2 – 2 1/2 hours, stirring occasionally. Remove the lid and puree with an immersion blender, or transfer to a regular blender or food processer and puree until smooth. Return to crock (if you used a blender of food processor) and cook on high uncovered for 30 minutes to 1 hour, stirring occasionally, until ketchup has reached desired consistency. You want it to be nice and thick.
Place into clean pint mason jars. Refrigerate or freeze. This will keep in the refrigerator for about 2 months.
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November 22nd, 2009 @ 9:12 pm
I really try to avoid high fructose corn syrup, but ketchup has always been one of those items I eat anyway. Nice to have an easy recipe for making this healthier! And congrats on raising so much money for St. Jude’s!
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November 22nd, 2009 @ 9:39 pm
I buy ketchup from the health food store that uses sugar instead of corn syrup, but no sugar is better. I don’t have brown rice syrup. Do you think agave would work?
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Amy Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:53 am
@Linda, I know that you can buy agave sweetened ketchup so I’m sure it would. Just taste and adjust as needed. Brown rice syrup has a different flavor than agave, deeper and earthier. And, I think that agave is sweeter than brown rice syrup. Maybe someone else has some thoughts on the differences, too.
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November 22nd, 2009 @ 9:40 pm
Thank you so much for posting this recipe. I have been looking for a simple recipe for homemade ketchup for a while now. This sounds great. I’m definitely going to try it out!!
Thanks!
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November 22nd, 2009 @ 9:52 pm
The Ketchup looks wonderful! I’d never thought about it as being something with so much sugar, but I’m sure it does! I also don’t remember the last time I ate any, as it was never my favourite thing.
I honestly thought the food fest was this week – keep forgetting about your Thanksgiving! Anyways, it looks like a wonderful giveaway =D.
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Amy Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 7:50 am
@Lauren, When I read about your Thankgiving I wondered if I had somehow made a huge mistake – I think we all feel so connected that we forget we’re in different parts of the world. Neat, huh?
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Lauren Reply:
November 23rd, 2009 at 12:41 pm
@Amy, So very true! In so many ways, Canada and the States are a lot alike, but we’ve got certain things that make us worlds apart! Not to mention, most of the time it feels like we could just reach through the screen and say hello – makes the distance not so far =D.
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November 22nd, 2009 @ 10:21 pm
That’s the most beautiful picture of ketchup. Thank you for the recipe. I would love BBQ again. You have just made that possible. The other linked recipes sound really good too. I’m thankful for you, Amy Green and all you’ve done for me since I found your blog this past summer. You’re a very special person and I pray you receive as much as you give.
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 6:33 am
yeah!!! Thanks for this recipe. My hubby doesn’t eat much ketchup, so it hardly pays for us to buy a bottle, and I like this recipe so much better
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 7:38 am
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 8:24 am
Beautiful ketchup, Amy! (Who would have ever thought I’d be saying that about ketchup? LOL) Great job at making it healthy.
I second Iris. Wonderful job on raising money for St. Jude and the e-cookbook is fabulous!
I’ve linked my Surprise Stuffing. It’s gluten-free, dairy-free, and sugar free … and delicious.
Shirley
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 8:53 am
Awesome! I have always thought about making my own ketchup – I might just do this for my sister, who cannot have ketchup because of the corn syrup either. This would be healthier for all of us!
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 9:21 am
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 9:28 am
Wow, homemade ketchup! You are amazing, Amy!
Thanks for hosting!
~Liz
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 12:03 pm
Hi, Just wanted you to know I am finally getting to put the link up on my blogs. I did not forget you. Had to bake some cookies.
I have never made ketchup or catsup before but I like your recipe or I guess I should say, “I plan to like it.”
Thanks.
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 1:31 pm
I have been looking for a ketchup recipe…I use it in my homemade barbecue sauce. Last time I just used tomato sauce and paste…maybe I’ll post the barbecue sauce next week.
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 5:44 pm
That looks like a great recipe! I’ll have to try making a cooked ketchup soon. I just made a raw one a few days ago that turned out wonderfully! It’s on my blog if you want to see it.
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November 23rd, 2009 @ 6:06 pm
Oooh, the ketchup looks great, Amy. We have a local restaurant here that makes their own ketchup, but yours looks even better.
I hope you have a wonderful holiday – I understand that time is so precious!
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November 24th, 2009 @ 2:49 pm
A busy and smart woman knows how to use her the crockpot. What a great recipe!
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November 24th, 2009 @ 5:12 pm
I love the idea of a crock pot ketchup. I’m definitely a do-it-yourselfer (puree my own pumpkin, render my own lard), but I haven’t found a ketchup recipe yet that seemed worth putting down the bottle. This one just might be it, though. I also love that it’s sugar-free! Thanks so much for sharing–can’t wait to try it!
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